The Reading Connection

Establishing a book club is a great way to involve parents in promoting literacy to young readers. This book shows you how to start a book club in your school or community and it provides bibliographies of literature resources for children. Suggested topics and sample book club sessions help you get started and an extensive bibliography arranged by genre guides teachers parents and students in selecting reading material. Chapters cover read-alouds picture books horror stories multicultural literature poetry science fiction nonfiction and reference bibliotherapy and problem novels award-winning books biographies and books in a series. For each genre the authors offer a general overview suggest discussion questions provide a bibliography and list resources for further reading. Helpful Internet addresses and additional topics are included in the concluding chapter.