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It's All about Text Appeal: Want Readers' Advisory to Make a Difference? Teach Your Kids How to Speak Intelligently about Books
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Nesi, Olga – School Library Journal, 2010
Readers' advisory with middle schoolers does not come easily. In an effort to expand students' reading horizons, the author describes how to teach students to speak intelligently and thoughtfully about their book preferences. She cites Joyce Saricks's "Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library" (ALA, 2005), a book that gave her the clarity…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Reading Material Selection, Public Libraries, Librarians
Fostering an Understanding of the Disabled through Young Adult Literature.
Umerlik, Ann – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1992
Discusses the need for young adult literature about the disabled, selection criteria for these books, and methods of presenting them to adolescent students. A list of recommended books includes 20 fiction and 9 nonfiction titles. (MES)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childhood Attitudes, Disabilities, Mainstreaming
Multimedia Presentations on the Go: An Instruction and Buyer's Guide.
Sammons, Martha C. – 1996
This handbook is designed to provide guidance for someone who wants to create portable multimedia presentations with notebook computers and related technologies. The first section offers technological overviews to help assess needs for: (1) portable computers; (2) software; (3) projection equipment; (4) peripherals; (5) portable storage; (6)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Computer Peripherals, Computer Software
Analyse and Select/Reject Information: Reading Strategies.
Garner, Imogen, Comp.; And Others – 1986
Because the teacher librarian has an important educational role to play in assisting students to become independent learners by applying the inquiry process to library research, this booklet has been designed to assist teacher librarians in teaching students the information skills appropriate to stage three of the inquiry process, i.e., analyzing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Information Seeking
Orientation Course in Educational Media. Primary Schools.
Transvaal Education Dept., Pretoria (South Africa). – 1984
This orientation course in educational media for teachers in primary schools consists of 10 illustrated lectures. Lecture topics are: (1) effective media use; (2) educational media for teaching and learning; (3) the use of pictures and illustrations as an educational medium in the primary school; (4) books and other printed media; (5)…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Instruction, Course Descriptions, Educational Television
Orientation Course in Educational Media. Secondary Schools.
Transvaal Education Dept., Pretoria (South Africa). – 1984
This orientation course in educational media for teachers in secondary schools consists of nine illustrated lectures. Lecture topics are: (1) effective media use; (2) educational media for teaching and learning; (3) books and other printed media; (4) transparencies and the overhead projector; (5) slides, slide-sound programs, filmstrips, and…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Instruction, Course Descriptions, Educational Television