Table of Contents
DVD CONTENTS
SECTION 1
Preparing and Organizing Your Classroom
A Classroom Tour
An Argument for Choice
SECTION 2
Helping Students Choose Books
Books I'd Like to Read: Someday Pages
An Explanation of Booktalks
Nancie's Booktalk on Purple Heart, Patricia McCormick
Nate's Booktalk on Swim the Fly, Don Calame
Emma's Booktalk on What My Mother Doesn’t Know and
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know, Sonya Sones
Book Browsing and Borrowing
Nancie's Booktalks in Response to Student Interest in Dystopian
Science Fiction: How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff, and Hunger, Michael Grant
SECTION 3
Mini lessons on Critical Reading
Reading as Critics: Poetry, the Mother Genre
- "Kisses, Can You Come Back Like Ghosts?" Carl Sandburg
Reading as Critics and Writers: Poetry
- "Fat Man," Niall Janney
- "New Eyes," Adrienne Jaeger
SECTION 4
Talking with Individual Readers
In Her Conversations with Readers, Notice How Nancie . . .
Conversations with Individual Readers
- Alibi Junior High,Greg Logsted; Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen (Hope)
- Choosing a Book (Abbie)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (Emma)
- Purple Heart, Patricia McCormick (Heidi)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (Nate)
- The Beach, Alex Garland (Max)
- Ninth Grade Slays, Heather Brewer (Cole)
- Bringing Down the House, Ben Mezrich (Tess)
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary Pearson (Sophia)
- Dreamland, Sarah Dessen (Natalie)
- Nancie visits the library with Graydon to help him transition from series fiction (Antony Horowitz) to young adult novels (Son of the Mob, Gordon Korman)
SECTION 5
Reading for a Lifetime
Nancie Talks about Creating Lifelong Readers