TeachingBooks and the Blended Learning, Technology-Rich Environment (Part 1)

• Let readers decide how to preview a title with options like video book trailers, Meet-the-Author Recordings, book readings, and Google Preview.
• Provide vocabulary lists and Multi-Leveled Lessons for students to review and complete at their own pace.
• Support students in making their own independent reading choices with Reader’s Advisory.
• Encourage independent reading assignments in a format of their choice with examples like blog posts, reader’s theater scripts, and annotations.

For Example You Might…

• Have students review the vocabulary list for Darius the Great is Not Okay, then create their own vocabulary list for an independent reading book with words they learned or looked up.  
• Create Multi-Leveled Lessons for their independent reading books that students can complete at their own pace.  For example, these Level 2 and Level 4 lessons for Drawn Together.

• Find book guides, activities, and lessons for the books your students are reading.
• Design a lesson to compare voice, word choice, and text organization within author blog posts.
• Lead students to practice summarizing and analysis using book annotations as models.
• Distribute resources as best fits your classroom using sharing tools with options for Google Classroom, email, embed codes, printable QR codes, and more.

For Example You Might…

• Use this guide for Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.
• Look at this guest blog post by CeCe Bell and discuss it as a writing model.
• Examine annotations for titles like We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell and Frane Lessac and discuss elements of an effective summary.