Check out the student activity handout designed by a middle school teacher who has had much success with the book chat experience. You can use the elements of the assignment to help create a rubric that contains those same elements. You Can't Live With Them, and You Can't Pass Without Them. Although not directly related to booktalks, the noted characteristics of good literature in each of the popular genres will certainly help guide your selection of good literature for booktalks and can help encourage student discussion about topics such as oral tale characteristics, characters, artistic elements of picture books, reader response, poetry analysis, literary quality, and multiculturalism. Once you've read this list carefully, you may be able to reword these descriptors of good literature as question prompts and, ultimately, develop your assessment of the quality of discussions based on how these questions are answered.
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You can find similar types of successes in the articles entitled Reading Clubs for Older Boys and Girls by Marie Hammond Milliken and Library Reading Clubs for Children by Caroline Maria Hewins. Home Education Magazine has written a helpful article directed at how parents can help encourage book talks One last web site that could potentially help out librarians in need of some helpful handouts to share the word about Book talks comes from the companion site to the book entitled Companion Site to book entitled Connecting Young Adults and Libraries . Among other interesting resources here are some links to handouts these librarians used in their presentations about booktalks. This trio is the perfect resource to help teachers and librarians prepare for booktalks. Each guide features about 80 books, organized by genre.