Educators: Reading Beyond the Classroom

Teachers, tutors, parents, and other educators will find the following resources useful tools for implementing reading motivation programs.

Book Club: A Literature-Based Curriculum
(Second Edition)
by: Taffy Raphael, Laura S. Pardo, Kathy Highfield
Small Planet Communications, 2002

A clear overview of the Book Club program is supplemented by new chapters on comprehension, writing, assessment, and classroom management. Complete thematic teaching units for four novels include related readings, unit projects, and correlations to language arts and social studies standards.

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Book Club for Middle School
by: Taffy Raphael, Marcella Kehus, Karen Damphousse
Small Planet Communications, 2001

This book shows how to engage adolescent learners with literature and help them assume increased responsibility for their own learning. Students receive strategy instruction, write in response to the literature, and learn to participate in meaningful peer discussions. Carefully modeled on classroom research, the program provides
specific examples and detailed lesson plans.

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The Count on Reading Handbook:
Tips for Planning Reading Motivation Programs
edited by Susan D. Ballard,
American Library Association, 1997.

Schools, libraries, and other youth-serving groups will find this a useful guide for planning and implementing reading motivation programs.

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Choosing Books for Children, A Commonsense Guide,
3rd Edition,
by Betsy Hearne with Deborah Stevenson,
University of Illinois Press, 1999.

This is an updated version of a classic guide to the many forms of fiction and nonfiction for children of all ages. The author covers the array of offerings from picture books to young adult titles.

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Literacy and Motivation: Reading Engagement in Individuals and Groups
by Catherine Snow and Ludo Verhoeven, editors,
Laurence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

This book provides an introduction to literacy and motivation, discussion of programs that promote literacy engagement, and overviews of supportive policies.

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Lively Discussions: Fostering Engaged Reading,
by Linda B. Gambrell and Janice F. Almasi, editors,
International Reading Association, 1996.

This book emphasizes the value of classroom discussion in creating engaged readers.

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Motivating Recreational Reading and Promoting
Home-School Connections:
Strategies from the Reading Teacher,
by Timothy Rasinki et. al., editors,
International Reading Association, 2000.

This is a collection of 33 articles originally published in IRA’s journal, The Reading Teacher. The field-tested strategies help readers create motivational tools and home-school partnerships for encouraging children’s out-of-school reading.

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Reading Engagement:
Motivating Readers through Integrated Instruction,
by John T. Guthrie and Allan Wigfield,
International Reading Association, 1997.

Writing for teachers and researchers, the authors describe the research literature on motivation and how to apply it to motivating children to read. The first section covers topics such as reading engagement and the teacher’s role in motivating readers. The second section turns to classroom strategies for supporting reading engagement.

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