Jennifer
Brickey
ET—Educational
Theory
Chance, R. & Lesesne,
T. (2012). Rethinking reading promotion old school meets technology. Teacher Librarian, 39(5), 26-28.
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Chance
and Lesesne notice that promoting books in middle and high schools pose a large
challenge for teacher librarians. They suggest that strong reading and book
promotion can change a school’s culture. In order to accomplish this, they
suggest reverting to an oldie, but goodie—booktalks. Booktalks offer a brief
description of the book that allows students to have an initial reaction of
interest in a book. However, Chance and Lesesne advise teacher librarians to
give traditional booktalks a modern twist they call “Book Trailers.” Similar to
booktalks, Book Trailers offer students a taste of what books have to offer,
yet, Book Trailers allow traditional booktalks to be “easily morph(ed) into other
forms that will be used by everyone in the learning community” (p.27). Chance
and Lesesne provide multiple examples of sites that do just that—promote books
amongst learning communities. This offers yet another tool for students to
interact with books in a 21st Century model. To assist teacher
librarians in their efforts, Chance and Lesesne offer ways to create book
trailers and methods of extending the concept to classroom teachers.
Links
provided in the article:
1)
Book Trailers for All, run by Teresa Schauer, a teacher
librarian in Texas http://booktrailersforall.com
2)
Guys Read
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