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The book whisperer : awakening the inner reader in every child / Donalyn Miller ; foreword by Jeff Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jossey-Bass teacherPublication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780470372272 (pbk.)
  • 0470372273 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.6 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1573 .M4938 2009
Contents:
There and back again -- Everybody is a reader -- Whisper: Student surveys -- There's a time and a place -- Reading freedom -- Whisper: Reader's notebooks -- Walking the walk -- Cutting the teacher strings -- Whisper: End-of-year evaluations -- Letting go -- Afterword / Ron D. Myers -- Appendix A: The care and feeding of a classroom library -- Appendix B: Ultimate library list -- Appendix C: Student forms.
Summary: Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. She shares her teaching methods and includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.
Item type: Book List(s) this item appears in: English Department - Professional Reading
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-215) and index.

There and back again -- Everybody is a reader -- Whisper: Student surveys -- There's a time and a place -- Reading freedom -- Whisper: Reader's notebooks -- Walking the walk -- Cutting the teacher strings -- Whisper: End-of-year evaluations -- Letting go -- Afterword / Ron D. Myers -- Appendix A: The care and feeding of a classroom library -- Appendix B: Ultimate library list -- Appendix C: Student forms.

Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. She shares her teaching methods and includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

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