Booktalking Nonfiction 200 Surefire Winners for Middle and High School Readers [Paperback]

According to her biography in Booktalking Nonfiction, Bromann-Bender is a librarian at Lincoln-Way West High School in Illinois and has authored several other books on booktalking. From reading this book one can see that she is also a thoughtful, experienced professional. This book contains everything the reader needs in order to begin booktalking nonfiction titles for teens. Nonfiction is the focus on the volume mainly because the Common Core Standards Initiative requires that 70 percent of the materials students read be information texts. Broken into four chapters, the book outlines all the skills and steps necessary to booktalk. The author begins by giving instruction on how to select, write, prepare, and present booktalks. She then goes on to discuss incorporating quick talks into library services. Using nonfiction in the library and classroom is the focus of chapter 3. The final chapter presents booktalks by theme, including animals, crime and serial killers, overcoming the odds, history and war, science and inventions, and sports, just to name a few. The author provides the user with ready-made booktalks; however, the librarian can expand on them by using tips provided at the beginning of the book. This book is recommended for young adult librarians in school and public libraries.In Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School, author Jennifer Bromann-Bender guides the librarian reader in selecting from the myriad of nonfiction published each year; offers super-quick fun book talks, tells how to collaborate with teachers to help them tie books to the curriculum, provides lessons and activities to use in the classroom or library, and delivers numerous booktalks by genre to fit into any lesson plan. A perfect fit for the librarian helping teachers and students meet Common Core standards.Jennifer Bromann-Bender provides another fun, practical guide for engaging readers with this well written title. In this realistic resource from an acl³˜