4. Know your style
Enthusiasm for the material
Flexibility
Balance
Know your audience
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5. E - enthusiastic
X – excels @ finding key passages
T – trusts audience & self
R – rides the wave
E – expects the best of self
M – motivates audience to read
E – enjoys self!
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6. Team vs. Individual Performance
Team benefits:
mutual endorsement
assists during momentary blanks
handling troublesome issues
Individual benefits:
more informal
stronger connection in small groups
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8. Be prepared
Befriend the audience
Believe in yourself and your message
Be breathing
Be comfortable
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9. Think about:
› Favorite way receive info?
› Most comfortable way to talk to others?
› Your favorite book?
› What part of your favorite book motivated
you to select it?
Choose your hook, tease and wrap-up
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11. What did you enjoy about doing your
book-talk?
What did you not like about it?
What did you learn about your own
style?
What did you learn from your
teammate’s performance that you’d like
to use?
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12. JUNIOR Peak- by Roland Smith
The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull Plain Janes by Cecil Castelucci
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Schooled by Gordon Korman
Journal by Jeff Kinney The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Rex
Igraine the Brave – Cornelia Funke Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry
Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian
Selznick SENIOR
Marley: a Dog Like No Other by John Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time
Grogan Indian by Sherman Alexie
Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Lee Stewart Deadline by Chris Crutcher
No Talking – Andrew Clements
Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa
Abdel-Fattah
INTERMEDIATE Enter Three Witches by Caroline Cooney
Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Hale
http://pnla.org/
Zen And The Art Of Faking It by Jordan
Sonnenblick
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13. Please feel free to email us if you have
any questions or suggestions.
Ezequiel: eluna@nampalibrary.org
Liesl: lseborg@adalib.org
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14. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/booktalking/
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/
http://www.thebooktalker.com/
http://www.oism.cps.k12.il.us/pdf/inservice/The%20ABCs%20of%20Bo
oktalking.pdf
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/profdev/booktalking.cfm
NoveList (database) has some excellent resources
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/Faculty/geaton/MSLMAtalk/
http://www.teenspoint.org/reading_matters/booktalks.asp
http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/webwatch/book_talks/
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians/booktalks.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/tradebooks/booktalks.htm
http://theyayayas.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/booktalking-tips-
2008/
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