Book Bundles

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Hooking Teens to Read Young Adult Literature 2005
Book Bundles
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What is Book Bundling?

• Grouped Literature
• Theme
• Author
• Structure
• Style
• Time period

• Choice for students
• Lure to participate
• Opportunity for diversity
• Experience with genre
• Distinctive perspectives

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Language Arts Six Traits of Writing
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Wonderful Words
By Lee Bennett Hopkins
Poems about Reading, Writing, Speaking, and
Listening
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Word Choice
The writers selection of languagespecific
wordsthat are exactly right colorful, strong,
clear, precise, and filled with energythe best
words to create the images or mental pictures the
writer is trying to convey.
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The Dream by Nikki Grimes

• Oh! To poet
• Like a laser,
• Pierce darkness
• With one word!

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Aleutian Sparrow
By Karen Hesse
And so we gather together, five villages of
Aleuts, and start stringing up the lanterns of
our lives, story by story.
(page 24)
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Sentence Fluency
The rhythm and flow of writing that makes it read
smoothly, easily, and enjoyablyespecially
noticeable when read aloud. Fluency also involves
varying sentence length and structure in the
right places.
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Listen by Lee Bennett Hopkins

• Listen
• to
• soft-silences
• stumbling
• midst
• loud-rumblings
• now
• and
• then.

• Hear
• powerful
• poundings
• of quiet, hushed,
• yet---
• momentous sounds
• over, over, over
• again.

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Friction
By E. R. Frank
I snap him on the head, and Stacy grins when he
shoots up like a rubber ball bouncing off
pavement. I like her smile. That gap between her
teeth looks perfect for spitting through.
(page 5)
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Voice
The personality of the writer that shines through
with humor, individuality, personal flavor,
confidence, commitment to the topic, enthusiasm,
musicall the characteristics that make the
reader feel as if the writer is actually present,
talking to the reader.
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Finding A Poem by Karla Kuskin
Dig deep in you. Keep everything you find. Sketch
the ever changing views, dappled behind your
eyes, rustling in your mind. Unlock the
weather in your heart. Unleash a thousand
whispers, let them shout.
Then when you feel the presence of a
poem waiting to spring to sting within
you, bewitch it into words and sing it out.
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The Gospel According to Larry
By Janet Tashjian
Theres a home video of me, probably about two
years old, sitting on one of those jumpy seats in
the kitchen. Im in front of the refrigerator
with colored magnetic numbers doing equations.

(page 17) I swear to God,
this is true.
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Conventions
The mechanics of writingpunctuation, spelling,
capitalization, grammar, paragraphingall skills
that affect the readability of writing so that
the reader can focus on and is not distracted
from its meaning.
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The Period by Richard Armour

• Fat little period, round as a ball,
• Youd think it would roll,
• But it doesnt
• At all.
• Where it stops,
• There it plops,
• There it stubbornly stays,
• At the send of a sentence
• For days and days.

• Get out of my way!
• Cries the sentence. Beware!
• But the period seems not to hear or to care.
• Like a stone in the road,
• It wont budge, it wont bend.
• If it spoke, it would say to a sentence,
• The end.

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Razzle
By Ellen Wittlinger
Kenyon! Is that you? I shaded my eyes. Who is
it? Me!. Razzle! When she turned the light on
herself I could see who surrounded herBillie,
Rusty, a couple of the dogs.
(page
121)
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Ideas
The fresh, original core or message of the
writing that has a purpose expressed in an
interesting way and is supported with enriching
details that paint a picture in the readers mind
and hold his/her attention.
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Share the Adventure by Patricia and Fredrick
McKissack

• Pages and pages
• A seesaw of ideas---
• Share the adventure
• Fiction, nonfiction
• Door to our past and future
• Swinging back and forth
• WHAM! The book slams shut,
• But we read it together
• With our minds open

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Seek
By Paul Fleischman
Grandmother Now make a wish Grandfather Think
about it. Aunt Jessica Take your time. Mother
Dont tell anybody. Aunt June That was fast. The
kid knows what he wants. Grandparents And look
at him blow! We hear the sound-effects recording.
It begins fading out after half a minute,
overlapping the following speech.

(page 20)
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Organization
The logical structure of the writing created with
effective sequencing to allow thoughts and
information to flow smoothly, fit together, and
end with a satisfying conclusion.
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Word Builder by Ann Whitford Paul

• Then frame your sentences
• Into paragraph villages,
• Stack your paragraphs
• Into chapter cities.
• Keep on building
• Words into sentences
• Sentences into paragraphs,
• Paragraphs into chapters
• Until you have created
• A whole world of book.

Begin your new construction with twenty-six
letters. Hammer a through z into words. Pile your
words like blocks into sentence tower--- measure
some tall, saw others short. Mortar each
sentence with punctuation,
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
By Martha Brooks
A girl begins as a negative influence, takes
responsibility and ironically becomes a positive
influence on her community.
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Six Traits of Writing
Unit Plan Novel Book Report
Lesson Plan Telegram
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Health Diversity
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Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenko
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Of Sound Mind By Jean Ferris
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On the Run By Michael Coleman
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Stoner Spaz By Ron Koertge
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Truesight By David Stahler Jr.
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Diversity
Unit Plan Health Diversity Project
Lesson Plan Online Book Report
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Social Studies Multicultural
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress By Dai
Sijie
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Bindi Babes By Narinder Dhami
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No Laughter Here By Rita Williams-Garcia
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Offsides By Erik Esckilsen
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Tree Girl By Ben Mikaelsen
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Multicultural
Unit Plan Social Studies Book Report
Lesson Book Jacket
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