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READING PROMOTION AND LITERACY

FORTHCOMING
FORTHCOMING
Connecting Children Comprehensible
with Classics and Compelling

A Reader-Centered Approach The Causes and Effects
to Selecting and Promoting of Free Voluntary Reading
Great Literature
STEPHEN D. KRASHEN,
MEAGAN LACY AND PAULINE DEWAN SY-YING LEE, AND CHRISTY LAO
This readers’ advisory and collection A joint effort from three
development guide identifies thought leaders in
hundreds of books that can help educational research,
children connect with books and linguistics, and literacy
develop into engaged readers. acquisition, this book
It enables children’s librarians, explores the latest
collection development specialists in research that shows
public libraries, as well as K–8 school that compelling
librarians and teachers to choose comprehensive input
from the best in traditional and (CCI) is the baseline for
modern children’s titles. all language and literacy
January 2018, 400pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 development.
Print: 978-1-4408-4439-3 FEATURES
$60.00, £47.00, €55.00 • Serves librarians seeking to FEATURES
eBook: 978-1-4408-4440-9 November 2017, 110pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 • Documents the
increase their knowledge about
children’s classics and help young Print: 978-1-4408-5798-0 value of libraries in
readers get more out of them $35.00, £27.00, €32.00 providing access for
eBook: 978-1-4408-5799-7 literacy development
Promoting Great Reads to • Provides compelling research-based arguments for
reading aloud, free voluntary reading, and reading to
Improve Teen Reading one’s strengths

Core Connections with Booktalks STEPHEN D. KRASHEN is an influential
and More and prolific author, linguist, and
researcher who has written nearly 500
LUCY SCHALL books and articles.
Support current educational initiatives
with a ready-to-use tool that will
help you with selection, motivation, SY-YING LEE is currently professor
and skill building relative to titles at National Taiwan University of
published within the last five years. Science and Technology and chair of
the Department of Applied Foreign
FEATURES Languages.
• Helps librarians promote new
fiction and nonfiction to teens and CHRISTY LAO, PhD, is a professor
to build literacy of education, founding director of the
• Supports the new national and Confucius Institute at San Francisco
state standards through learning State University, and coordinator of the
February 2015, 259pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 extensions Chinese Bilingual Program.
Print: 978-1-4408-3492-9
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00 • Offers read-alikes for titles popular ALSO OF INTEREST
eBook: 978-1-4408-3493-6 with teens
Free Voluntary Reading online at librariesunlimited.com

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