HOW DO YOU PROMOTE READING?

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QUESTIONS
Create a starting point for yourself. Answer the questions , reflect on your own practice. You may wish to jot down a few notes.

EXAMPLES
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DISCUSSIONS
Contribute your original ideas to the COMMENTS, at the bottom of each section or respond to someone else's comments. Discuss your own way of doing things, or the online examples. Or ask Judith a question.

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QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about fiction reading on the screen?

2. Do you circulate audio books in your library.

3. Do you promote audio books to teachers to improve learning opportunities for ESL and special needs students?

4. Do you any digital technologies in promoting print fiction?

5. Do you use proprietary databases ( e.g. Novelist ) as part of your readers' advisory services?

6. Do you use free sites ( e.g. reading group information offered by publishers)?

7. Do you have a student group that communicates online about books and book reviews? Within a class, the school, or the world?

8. Do you list recommended books with annotations in parent online newsletters?

9. Do you promote novels in your website?

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EXAMPLES

1. Well Read - Online pamphlet for ESL parents & students.

2. English 12: Classic novel study - digital connections to copyright-free text and audio books

3. Novel study collaboration materials transferred from print to digital format and posted on main library site. - The perfect book for you  / Cool Test

4. List of award winners

5. Site created with links to teen writer blogs. Click "blidget" below to see site.

6. Reading promotions on front page of library site:

  • A COMPELLING, BEAUTIFULLY-CRAFTED STORY ( EVEN WITHOUT BRAD PITT)
  • TWILIGHT, SHMILIGHT - HAVE A BITE OF A REAL VAMPIRE.
  • WE HAVE A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF ART BOOKS...STOP BY AND BORROW ONE
  • CLICK! AND LISTEN TO BEST SELLERS AND CLASSIC NOVELS
  • THE RACE TO DIGITIZE BOOKS IS ON !
  • IMAGINE A CHILDHOOD WITHOUT BOOKS...
  • Strange...sometimes novels are more true to life than psychology textbooks.
  • WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE 'ANNE OF GREEN GABLES'?
  • FRENCH IMMERSION ROCKS!

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