Booktalking Resources

Places to find sample booktalks

• Books such as Booktalk! by Joni Bodart
• NoveList – look under teacher resources
• Lots of web sources – example:

http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians/booktalks.html

http://www.nancykeane.com/booktalks

http://www.motherreader.com/2006/06/book-hooks.html - doesn’t  have entire booktalks, but has great “hooks”

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/LBSC690-Final-Project-Gallery/200509-booktalks/more.html

http://www.thebooktalker.com/

New formats for the traditional idea

• Bookwink – video podcasts http://bookwink.com   

• Book Trailers – examples

http://digitalbooktalk.com/

http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/mgeary/booktrailers/

http://www.alexrideradventures.com/images/trailer.swf  

• Scholastic – both traditional and video 

http://www.scholastic.com/librarians/ab/booktalks.htm

• YouTube – digital booktalking - examples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWCXkSercQc - Teacher’s Funeral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzUX8Axd3NI - An Abundance of Katherines

• Teacher Tube – search by book talk

http://www.teachertube.com

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=6fdde0811da94e3c2f82 – Buffalo Before Breakfast

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=a5084471353b2b92ce5cb – To Kill A Mockingbird

• Use Microsoft’s Photo Story to create your own digital booktalk

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

http://clow.ipsd.org/lmc_digitelling.html

http://www.techlearning.com/article/8160

Resources

• American Library Association/YALSA

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/profdev/booktalking.cfm

• Booktalking 2.0 by Joyce Kasman Valenza

http://pdfs.voya.com/VO/YA2/VOYA200710tag_team_tech.pdf

• Talking It Up by J. Marin Younker

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6319896.html

• popcorn graphic

http://teachers.net/gazette/AUG03/images/popcornwords3.pdf

If you have questions, use the email link to contact Rachel or call her at (217) 429-2586 x105.