October is the best month of the year. October brings golden leaves, baseball playoffs, high school football, and Halloween. It’s no wonder so many authors and musicians have written about this most evocative of months. Consider this passage from Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes:
Entries Tagged as 'Book Lists'
The Best October Poetry, Books and Music
September 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Book Lists, Music, Poetry, Reading Recommendations
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Recommended Reading List for Junior High by Nancie Atwell
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Book Lists, Reading Recommendations, Teen Literacy
Nancie Atwell’s book The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers is a manifesto for change in reading classrooms. She successfully argues that the key to reading instruction is to arrange our teaching so that students can engage in “frequent, voluminous, self-selected reading.” To help teachers develop classroom [...]
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100 Recommended Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for Junior High Students
September 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Book Lists, Literature, Reading Recommendations, Science Fiction
My list of 300 Recommended Books for Junior High Students may have been erroneously removed from Scribd (see my article about this here, and the ars technica article here), but it’s not forgotten. Today I’m reproducing the science fiction and fantasy portions of the list for those of you who are interested. What’s more, [...]
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Free Literature for Your Classroom with Public Domain Texts
August 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Audio Books, Book Lists, Copyright, Literature, Reading Recommendations, Resources
In the wake of yesterday’s copyright weirdness, I thought today would be a good day to talk about using public domain literature in the classroom. I’ve put together a reading list (in case you haven’t noticed, I’m a list junkie) of books in the public domain that could be used in a junior high [...]
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SFWA Accuses Teen Literacy of Copyright Violation
August 27th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Book Lists, Copyright, Site News, Teaching
Apparently I’m beginning to attract attention–and not the kind I was expecting. I was informed this afternoon that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have requested that my list of 300+ Recommended Books for Junior High Students be removed from Scribd because it violates copyright. I have absolutely no idea what [...]
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