Extreme Booktalking!

Extreme Booktalking!Booktalk any book

Liesl Seborg, MLIS, MA, Hidden Springs Branch LibraryEzequiel Luna, BA, Nampa Public Library

SWILA ConferenceApril 8, 2009

Booktalking: What is it really?

Sales? Motivation? Entertaining? Capturing the reader?

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Booktalk Styles & Samples

Fiction Collections Nonfiction Fast & Furious In the Stacks (aka Shelftalking)

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Booktalking Essentials

Know your style Enthusiasm for the material Flexibility Balance Know your audience

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E.X.T.R.E.M.E. Booktalkers:

E - enthusiastic X – excels @ finding key passages T – trusts audience & self R – rides the wave E – expects the best of self M – motivates audience to read E – enjoys self!

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Performance

Team vs. Individual Performance Team benefits:

mutual endorsementassists during momentary blankshandling troublesome issues

Individual benefits:more informalstronger connection in small groups

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Anxiety

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Tips to Counteract Anxiety: C.A.B.

Be prepared Befriend the audience Believe in yourself and your message Be breathing Be comfortable

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Your Booktalking Style

Think about:› Favorite way receive info?› Most comfortable way to talk to others?› Your favorite book?› What part of your favorite book motivated

you to select it? Choose your hook, tease and wrap-up

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Now it’s YOUR turn

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Evaluate

What did you enjoy about doing your book-talk?

What did you not like about it? What did you learn about your own

style? What did you learn from your

teammate’s performance that you’d like to use?

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YRCA Nominees for 2010 JUNIOR The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s

Journal by Jeff Kinney Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul

Curtis  Igraine the Brave – Cornelia Funke Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian

Selznick  Marley: a Dog Like No Other by John

Grogan  Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton

Lee Stewart No Talking – Andrew Clements  INTERMEDIATE Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal

Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon

Hale Zen And The Art Of Faking It by Jordan

Sonnenblick

Peak- by Roland Smith Plain Janes by Cecil Castelucci Schooled by Gordon Korman The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam

Rex  Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry   SENIOR Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time

Indian by Sherman Alexie City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare Deadline by Chris Crutcher Does My Head Look Big In This? by

Randa Abdel-Fattah Enter Three Witches by Caroline

Cooney Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marrhttp://pnla.org/

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Questions?

Please feel free to email us if you have any questions or suggestions.

Ezequiel: [email protected] Liesl: [email protected]

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Resources for Development & Further Study

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/booktalking/ http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/ http://www.thebooktalker.com/ http://www.oism.cps.k12.il.us/pdf/inservice/The%20ABCs%20of%

20Booktalking.pdf http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/profdev/booktalking.cfm NoveList (database) has some excellent resources http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/Faculty/geaton/MSLMAtalk/ http://www.teenspoint.org/reading_matters/booktalks.asp http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/webwatch/book_talks/ http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians/booktalks.html http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/tradebooks/booktalks.htm http://theyayayas.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/booktalking-tips-20

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