Book
The book whisperer : awakening the inner reader in every child
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
Physical Description
xi, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
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.
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 / by Ron D. Myers
- Appendix A: The care and feeding of a classroom library
- Appendix B: Ultimate library list
- Appendix C: Student forms.