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Tips for giving great booktalks

** DO - THIRTY ways to successful booktalking: **
 * 1. Make a list of the books you plan to booktalk and share with the students.
 * 2. Start with a little setup (perhaps in the form of a question), read from the book (short sections, not a long reading), and close with a teaser.
 * 3. Use a “silencer” - something from the book that grabs attention.
 * 4. If you are booktalking a book you’ve not read, admit it!
 * 5. Have book covers on bulletin board and students (or LMS) write a booktalk to place next to the covers.
 * 6. Pop into a classroom and give a quick 2 minute booktalk.
 * 7. Select books to booktalk based on a theme, using multicultural sources to appeal to a diverse student population.
 * 8. Prepare about 30 booktalks, stand books up before class, let them choose the 6-8 they want to hear about.
 * 9. Consider shelf-talking as well as booktalking: go to group of students and pull book off shelf where they are standing and tell a little about it.
 * 10. Go into a class beforehand to find out what the class likes to read about.
 * 11. LIKE the book you are booktalking – it helps! Think about why you felt it was special.
 * 12. Booktalk non-fiction as well as fiction.
 * 13. Place books on display after booktalking.
 * 14. Start small – maybe one grade level, then add more as you gain confidence.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">15. Booktalk enough books for students to each have one to check out.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">16. Have follow up activities after a booktalk (example: booktalk Call It Courage, Island of the Blue Dolphins, etc., then have students assemble a survival kit for being stranded on an island by writing the words on paper and packing them in a backpack).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">17. Involve students in a booktalking contest (example: science fiction theme contest – participants get “dandelion wine” (lemonade) and cookies).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">18. Tie booktalk to current events.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">19. Use visuals whenever possible.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">20. Promote the classics…tell students they are now mature enough to read them – tell them classics are the meat and potatoes of reading, then give them all a bag of chips – tell about HGWells and how his story was so realistic that it scared everyone in 1939.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">21. Dress the part! And have sound effects as you booktalk (example: Kidnapped could have seafaring noise in the background)…Play the part of a character as well as dress it (example: Rip Van Winkle – be asleep, then wake up twitching and beginning your walk home).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">22. Don’t share the title of the book – let students guess, then reveal the book from under a cover of some sort, or give the author name and let students search the OPAC for the title that matches your booktalk.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">23. For classics, ask students what music, movies, books of today they think will be popular 50 years from now.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">24. Involve the classroom teacher (example: The Year of Impossible Goodbyes, LMS barks out orders to teacher to show military occupation of a country theme).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">25. For classics, tie to films, show couple of editions of same title, define as crossing nations, languages, universality of theme and test of time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">26. For classics, explain characters are reaching for something, wanting something – place a candy bar just out of everyone’s reach as you booktalk this idea.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">27. For classics, use another term: “Tried and True” or “Forever Read” etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">28. Have a raffle at the end of a booktalk and give out the books you booktalk as prizes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">29. Prepare and practice, know what you are going to say.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">30. Concentrate on the book and your message. Don't worry about the audience.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">** DON’T - SEVEN ways to booktalking disaster: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Don’t give the book you are booktalking out in class while you are booktalking.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Don’t present same book to each class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Don’t check out the book you just booktalked immediately; give name of author so kids can check out other titles by same author if they liked the booktalk.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Don’t booktalk a book you’ve not read!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Don’t memorize or read a booktalk; kids don’t like that.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. Do not do a retelling – don’t tell too much of the plot.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7. Do not tell the ending!!!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%; text-align: left;">Adapted from: http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/tips.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Standards connections

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Georgia Standards for P-12 schools: []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Student lesson plan for booktalk: []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Follett Book Company: [|www.titlewave.com] (must have login name and password)

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 * ~ Website ||~ Description ||
 * < [] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nancy Keane's site with audio clips included on selected booktalks. (Linked with permission) ||
 * < [|http://www.mackinbooktalk.com] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Provides a cute way of seeing quick booktalks on selected titles. Presented in the form of an actual book with author information. ||
 * < [|http://digitalbooktalk.com] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Suppose you are too shy to present a booktalk? Have kids go to a digital booktalk site and watch a book trailer. Includes Lexile level of books. ||
 * < [] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"How to do a booktalk" by Gale Eaton. (Linked with permission) ||
 * < [] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson plan / Discussion on how to get kids hooked on a book. ||
 * < [|GALILEO / NoveList] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Booktalks provided on selected titles. ||
 * < [] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Scholastic's booktalks, by Joni Bodart. Includes discussion guides and videos. Links to lesson plans and articles on the topic of the book. Can print and email talks. Can embed code so talks can be included on your website. Includes an interactive whiteboard (under student activities). ||
 * < [] ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Random House site - selected booktalks provided, along with suggested titles associated with specific months/activities throughout the year. ||
 * [] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Booktalks for Peach Award Books (from GLMA website) ||
 * [] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Professional development page on booktalking - includes rubrics for grading booktalks. (Linked with permission from Saskatoon School District, Canada) ||
 * [] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Professional development page on booktalking - includes rubrics for grading booktalks. (Linked with permission from Saskatoon School District, Canada) ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Booktalking game...





<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">NovelList K-8 (from GALILEO)



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Booktalking Resources

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ALA YALSA recommended resources - http://0-www.ala.org.sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/profdev/booktalking.cfm

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Booktalk Web Resources - http://www.marinette.k12.wi.us/staff/vvf/booktalks.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Booktalks as podcasts - http://www.hopkintonschools.org/hhs/library/podcast.html

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Franklin, P., & Stephens, C. G. (2008, March). Get students to read through booktalking! //School Library Media Activities Monthly//, 24(7), 38-39. Retrieved from <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> []

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