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Ban the Book Report: Promoting Frequent and Enthusiastic Reading
Teachers recognize that frequent independent reading increases student knowledge on a wide range of topics, enhances vocabulary, and improves comprehension. Ban the Book Report inspires teachers to go beyond narrow and analytical book reports by exploring the potential of book talks, alternate book covers, identifying features of informational books, newspaper headlines and articles, talk-show interviews, diary entries for characters and letters to authors. This remarkable resource offers more than twenty specific assignments with its own rubric written in student-friendly language along with student response exemplars from real classrooms. Tips to help teachers launch and manage an independent reading program complement this timely book.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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June 20, 2014
4/5 "Ban the Book Report is definitely an intriguing title. As I began to read the book, I automatically found myself questioning the effectiveness of book reports…. Overall, I thought the book was well organized, interesting, and informative. I recommend this book for people looking for new ideas for different reading and writing assignments. It will provide a fresh outlook on book reports and allow people to develop their own unique ideas from it. It delivers a welcome challenge to spice up literacy activities and make then more enjoyable and engaging." - ETFO Voice Magazine, Summer 2014
"If you want powerful alternatives to traditional book reports, look to this resource. If offers a true alignment of responses to reading for pleasure. …Challenging and intellectually rigorous… they all conclude with similar advice: develop reading responses that are real and will deepen a love of reading for the rest of your students' lives." - Professionally Speaking
"Highly Recommended. Graham Foster has created a helpful resource for teachers to support students' critical thinking of texts they are reading. A definite strength of the book is the thoughtful advice given at the start of each chapter in terms of when assignments work best for student responsiveness and what students have preferred in the past use of these assignments." - CM Magazine
"[This book] offers creative alternatives…. Each assignment includes a student-friendly rubric. This element has the potential to increase student engagement and accountability. Another suggestion from the book that I will take forward is to not only give students the opportunity to asses their assignments but also to revise their own work." - MiddleWeb.com
"This book provides a wonderful resource for both new and experiences teachers who want to 'ban the book report' and provide their students with new reading-response options which 'encourages rather than discourage reading.'" - Resource Links
"If you want powerful alternatives to traditional book reports, look to this resource. If offers a true alignment of responses to reading for pleasure. …Challenging and intellectually rigorous… they all conclude with similar advice: develop reading responses that are real and will deepen a love of reading for the rest of your students' lives." - Professionally Speaking
"Highly Recommended. Graham Foster has created a helpful resource for teachers to support students' critical thinking of texts they are reading. A definite strength of the book is the thoughtful advice given at the start of each chapter in terms of when assignments work best for student responsiveness and what students have preferred in the past use of these assignments." - CM Magazine
"[This book] offers creative alternatives…. Each assignment includes a student-friendly rubric. This element has the potential to increase student engagement and accountability. Another suggestion from the book that I will take forward is to not only give students the opportunity to asses their assignments but also to revise their own work." - MiddleWeb.com
"This book provides a wonderful resource for both new and experiences teachers who want to 'ban the book report' and provide their students with new reading-response options which 'encourages rather than discourage reading.'" - Resource Links
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