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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464998403321

Autore

Geye Susan

Titolo

Orca Soundings resource guide : teen fiction for reluctant readers / / Susan Geye, Janice Reynolds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Victoria, British Columbia] : , : Orca Book Publishers, , 2009

ISBN

1-55469-388-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReynoldsJanice T

Disciplina

428.4071/2

Soggetti

Young adult literature - Study and teaching (Secondary)

Literature - Study and teaching (Secondary)

Readers (Secondary)

Reading - Remedial teaching

Language arts - Remedial teaching

Language arts (Secondary)

Creative activities and seat work

High interest-low vocabulary books

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

Nota di contenuto

Value of using Orca Soundings in the classroom -- Orca Soundings and reading levels -- How to use this curriculum guide -- Classroom teaching ideas, reading workshop, individual silent reading -- Literature circles -- Assigning students to book discussion groups -- Student ownership of book discussion groups -- Modeling responses to literature -- Written preparation for literature circles discussion -- Dialectical journals -- Group sharing -- Assessment, informal -- Assessment, formal -- Culminating activities -- Preview reading activity -- Biographies -- Book summaries with reading levels -- Books grouped by subject -- Book titles with themes. Index of teachers' guides: Back -- Bang -- Battle of the bands -- Big guy -- Blue Moon -- Breathless -- Bull rider -- Bull's eye -- Charmed -- Chill -- Crush -- The Darwin expedition -- Dead-end job -- Death wind -- Down -- Exit point -- Exposure -- Fastback beach -- First time -- Grind -- The Hemingway tradition -- Hit squad -- Home invasion -- House party --



I.D. -- Juice -- Kicked out -- Learning to fly -- Lockdown -- Middle row -- My time as Caz Hazard -- No more pranks -- No problem -- One more step -- Overdrive -- Pain & wastings -- Refuge Cove -- Responsible -- Riley Park -- Saving Grace -- Scum -- Snitch -- Something girl -- Spiral -- Sticks and stones -- Stuffed -- Tell -- Thunderbowl -- Tough trails -- The trouble with Liberty -- Truth -- Wave warrior -- Who owns Kelly Paddik? -- Yellow line -- Zee's way.

Sommario/riassunto

This resource guide enables a teacher to implement the Orca Soundings series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit.