| Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers: Real Space and Virtual Links Contributor(s): Buzzeo, Toni (Author), Kurtz, Jane (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1563087448 ISBN-13: 9781563087448 Publisher: Libraries Unlimited OUR PRICE: $35.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: Exciting, productive connections with authors, illustrators, and storytellers are at your fingertips with this resource. Unlike other author visit guides, this book goes beyond nuts-and-bolts planning to how to create the best possible encounters between students and authors. Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to connect with and create meaningful links between bookpeople and children. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, using e-mail to connect with bookpeople, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered. Lists of author/illustrator web pages and managed Internet sites for author interaction are included. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Elementary - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics - Education | Curricula |
| Dewey: 372.640 |
| LCCN: 99028468 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 8.52" W x 11" (1.26 lbs) 185 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Exciting, productive connections with authors, illustrators, and storytellers are at your fingertips with this resource. Unlike other author visit guides, this book goes beyond nuts-and-bolts planning to how to create the best possible encounters between students and authors. Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to connect with and create meaningful links between bookpeople and children. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, using e-mail to connect with bookpeople, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered. Lists of author/illustrator web pages and managed Internet sites for author interaction are included. |