Authors: Teri Lesesne
ISBN-13: 9781571103819, ISBN-10: 1571103813
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these "typical teens" to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding the books that get them hooked in the first place. In Making the Match she focuses on three distinct areas that will assist teachers and librarians in steering students to the literature they love:
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
My Life as a Reader in a Stolen Moment Talkin' Blues | 5 | |
On Reading or a Reader Grows in Brooklyn | 8 | |
A Literary Quest | 10 | |
Exploring Feelings and Desires in Books | 18 | |
Finding the Meaning Myself | 29 | |
The Gift of Reading | 40 | |
What Reading Means to Me | 47 | |
The Richness of Books | 49 | |
The Hardy Boys Made Me Do It | 51 | |
A Reader, a Romantic | 65 | |
Writing to Make One Fall from Trees | 82 | |
Reading: Natural and Essential | 99 | |
Riding the Roller Coaster | 101 | |
Lift Off | 102 | |
Wondering What's Around the Bend | 113 | |
Books Make Life Easier | 122 | |
Afterword | 146 | |
Teaching Kids to Love to Read | 149 | |
App.: Book Lists and Resources | 150 | |
Contributors' Works | 221 | |
Professional Works Cited | 231 |