Booktalks

Presented by:

Ms. Colleen Mills Williams, Media SpecialistApalachee High School940 Haymon Morris RoadWinder, GA 30680

What are Booktalks?”It’s a commercial that will hook the students.” __Jennifer Polomis & Booktalking Do’s and Don’ts: http://hometown.aol.com/naughyde/connecting/do_donts.htm Keith Schroeder

“It’s a commercial that will hook the students. “

__Jennifer Polomis & Keith Schroeder

Booktalking Do’s and Don’ts: http://hometown.aol.com/naughyde/connecting/do_donts.htm

What are Booktalks? ABCs of Booktalking: http://www.uelma.org/conven00/booktalk.htm

“They are like movie trailers that catch the kid’s interest and then offer a cliffhanger to make them want more.”

__Nancy Keane

ABCs of Booktalking: http://www.uelma.org/conven00/booktalk.htm

What are Booktalks?

Similar to Reading Rainbow:

snappy, without telling the story plot.

Tips for Booktalks

Booktalks are moremore than a summary.

Tips for Booktalks

Face to face is best, or use multimedia technology;

such as PowerPoint presentations

Face to face is best!

Tips for Booktalks Face to face is best! … or use multimedia technolgy; such as movie clips & Internet Streaming Video

…or use multimedia technology; such as movie clips & Internet Streaming Video

Face to face is best!

Tips For Booktalks

“Be brief – don’t give away too much of the story!

Use enthusiasm & creativity.”

__Daphne Jorgensen

Tips For Booktalks

Mix-up your pace: Make some booktalks longer than others

Make some booktalks longer than others.

Booktalk “Hooks” Where can you find inspiration?

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/recreading/recommendedreading.htm

Where can you find inspiration?

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/recreading/recommendedreading.htm

Feelings / Emotions Recognize that books are powerful and sometimes controversial. Think of the use of movie ratings: Respect everyone in your audience by letting them know if your book selection contains sex, violence or profanity. Do not use, quote or describe any text, graphics or pictures that could be

offensive. anger

love

greed

fear

Themes Example: Yearbook Themes

http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/theyearbook/resource/search/directory/topics/theme/ideas.htmlPL: http://plymouthlibrary.org/yabibs.htm

Yearbook Themes (online lists)

http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/theyearbook/resource/search/directory/topics/theme/ideas.html

Public Library reading lists for YA / teen pages: http://plymouthlibrary.org/yabibs.htm

Props / Artwork

Comic strip style: a series of frames or objects link scenes / major shifts

in story

Pull items from a bag or a pocket:intrigue the audience with “what’s next

Interact with Audience

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/storyteller/listen.htm

How to Perform a story:

News Items Kiss The Dust by Elizabeth Laird

Straight from the headlines…

“Her father’s involvement with [the] Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.”

Kiss the Dust __by Elizabeth Laird

http://www.newseum.org/

PSAs

Public Service Announcements

Intercom Announcements

Phone Messages

Brief Advertisements

Compare movies & books I Know What You Did

Last Summer by Lois Duncan http://teenreads.com/features/books2movies.asphttp://plymouthlibrary.org/bktovid.htm

I Know What You Did Last Summer

__By Lois Duncanhttp://www.teenreads.com/features/books2movies.asphttp://plymouthlibrary.org/bktovid.htm

Copyright Concerns:

You do have the right to use someone else’s work during a class lesson, if you cite the source.

Unless you have written permission from the copyright holder (often more than 1 person), you do not have the right to display someone else’s work during competitions or performances.

Unless you have written permission from the copyright holder:

you are not allowed to display another person’s work on bulletin boards or to post copies on webpages.

http://www.barrow.k12.ga.us/ahs/media/html/web.html

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