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Naked Reading

Naked Reading 9781571104168
Naked Reading was inspired by the author's ten-year-old granddaughter, whose frequent practice of spending time after a shower air-drying in the privacy of the bathroom, so she can continue reading an engrossing book, made Teri Lesesne curious about what makes some tweens avid readers while others elect not to read or become dormant readers.Not yet fully young adults, butas they are quick to tell youno longer little kids, these nine-to-fourteen-year-olds are at a stage where every day brings new emotions and physical growth, when habits become ingrained, and when tastes are established.For teachers, the tween years can be the best and worst of times. While some fourth-to-ninth-graders come to see books as a lifeline for understanding a changing world, too many experience the fourth-grade slumpa marked decline in interest and achievement in reading. Without help, many become middle and high school students who have stopped reading for pleasure, and only slog through what is assigned.Teri draws on her extensive experience as a teacher and consultant to examine ways that educators can help interest kids in books and keep them reading during this crucial period. She looks at:developmental attributes of tweens;emerging interests for tweens;themes and plots tweens find most engaging;annotations for scores of children's and YA lit most appropriate for tweens;practical classroom activities for sparking tween engagement in reading.As in her previous book, Making the Match, Naked Reading is loaded with specific titles to help you connect kids with books that will interest them the most.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Naked Reading: The Bare EssentialsChapter 2: Books Tweens Prefer to Read: Some Suggestions from the Kids ThemselvesChapter 3: Motivating Tween Reading: Looking at Results from Surveys and InterviewsChapter 4: How Can We Energize Tweens: T-A-R-G-E-T: Six Ways for Teachers to Reconnect Kids to BooksChapter 5: What Can We Do to Follow Up Reading? A Baker's Dozen of Un-Book Report IdeasAfterwordAppendix: More Than One Hundred Great Books for TweensBibliography--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reviews--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Teri S. Lesesne is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University in Houston,Texas, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in young adult and children's literature in the department of library science. She is also a fifteen-year veteran of the middle school English classroom. Teri coordinates an annual YA conference for her university, and she currently writes the YA review column for Voices from the Middle. She serves on the advisory board for the The ALAN Review, The Reading Teacher, and Voice of Youth Advocates, and she currently co-chairs the Middle-Level Section Steering Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. In her spare time, Teri is the proud grandmother of three charming granddaughters and three handsome grandsons.
9781571104168
  • Author:Teri Lesesne
  • Publishing House:Stenhouse
  • Publication Date:March 2006
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