This Is a Great Book!

Rooted in the belief that providing students with quality books to read is essential to student success as readers inside the classroom and beyond, This Is a Great Book! presents a wide range of recommended titles from chapter books to young adult novels. This essential resource includes more than fifty reproducible activities, assessment profiles, and inventories for easy classroom use. Committed to nurturing the love of reading, the authors show how to teach students to dig deeper in their understanding and appreciation of books through writing, discussion, the arts, media, and more. The special attention paid to leisure reading helps create readers with a lifelong interest in engaging fiction.