Orca Soundings resource guide : teen fiction for reluctant readers - Geye, Susan; Reynolds, Janice T.; ebrary, Inc. ([Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2009)
Value of using Orca Soundings in the classroom -- Orca Soundings and reading levels -- How to use this curriculum guide -- Classroom teaching ideas, reading workshop, individual silent reading -- Literature circles -- Assigning students to book discussion groups -- Student ownership of book discussion groups -- Modeling responses to literature -- Written preparation for literature circles discussion -- Dialectical journals -- Group sharing -- Assessment, informal -- Assessment, formal -- Culminating activities -- Preview reading activity -- Biographies -- Book summaries with reading levels -- Books grouped by subject -- Book titles with themes. Index of teachers' guides: Back -- Bang -- Battle of the bands -- Big guy -- Blue Moon -- Breathless -- Bull rider -- Bull's eye -- Charmed -- Chill -- Crush -- The Darwin expedition -- Dead-end job -- Death wind -- Down -- Exit point -- Exposure -- Fastback beach -- First time -- Grind -- The Hemingway tradition -- Hit squad -- Home invasion -- House party -- I.D. -- Juice -- Kicked out -- Learning to fly -- Lockdown -- Middle row -- My time as Caz Hazard -- No more pranks -- No problem -- One more step -- Overdrive -- Pain & wastings -- Refuge Cove -- Responsible -- Riley Park -- Saving Grace -- Scum -- Snitch -- Something girl -- Spiral -- Sticks and stones -- Stuffed -- Tell -- Thunderbowl -- Tough trails -- The trouble with Liberty -- Truth -- Wave warrior -- Who owns Kelly Paddik? -- Yellow line -- Zee's way.
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Keywords: Young adult literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Readers (Secondary); Reading -- Remedial teaching; Language arts -- Remedial teaching; Language arts (Secondary); Creative activities and seat work; High interest-low vocabulary books; Electronic books