Talking Texts is a guide for teachers to the steps and strategies of implementing text clubs in many forms in the classroom.

Talking Texts is a guide for teachers to the steps and strategies of implementing text clubs in many forms— fiction and nonfiction book clubs, textbook clubs, article clubs, and even poetry clubs—in the classroom. All strategies presented are applicable to any discipline so that text clubs can be employed across the curriculum in any grade level.

Foreword – Lester Laminack

Introduction

Chapter 1: Defining School Book Clubs

Chapter 2: Setting Up Book Clubs

Chapter 3: Preparing for Book Clubs: Teaching Social Skills

Chapter 4: Book Club Procedures & Lessons

Chapter 5: Book Club Reflections

Chapter 6: Book Club Text Synthesis & Presentations

Chapter 7: Book Club Assessment

Chapter 8: Planning Book Club Reading

Chapter 9: Text Clubs across the Curriculum

Chapter 10: A Sample Book Club Unit: The 9/11 Novel Unit

References

Appendix: Reproducible Forms

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