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Good Books Matter

The background information teachers need to find, choose, and use children`s literature to help their students grow as readers

Based on extensive research on the features that make children's books appealing and appropriate, this valuable teacher resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. This teacher-friendly book is organized around the major genres — traditional literature, picture books, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts — that will inspire young readers. Throughout the book, teachers will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and response strategies with emergent, developing, and independent readers. This comprehensive book is rooted in the belief that educators must consider and offer a wide range of choice to ensure that students read "good" books. It argues that the choices children make about what they read should be governed by their interests and desire to learn; not by a grade or reading level.

**Please note: Good Books Matter is now available in eBook format ONLY.**



Author(s): Shelley Stagg Peterson and Larry Swartz

Pages: 184 Publication Date: 2008 ISBN: 9781551382326

eBook
Price: $ 25.95
All book orders receive a 10% discount