TARGET:promoting recreational reading

[Linda Slacum <lindas@delanet.com>]

Dear Colleagues,
If you have time, I'd appreciate your ideas and suggestions on ways to
promote student recreational reading.

I have a very busy library and my nonfiction collection is strongly
connected to curricula.  My staff heavily uses the nonfiction materials
for research purposes.  My fiction collection is well balanced with a
good selection of various genres, classics, award winners and
contemporary literature.  But still it remains unused!

My language arts department is so focued on novel units that they do not
require reading outside the selected novel.  I have tried booktalks,
interesting displays, thematic groupings and still my fiction
circulation is very poor.  I recently attended a workshop with nongraded
free-form book discussion groups as a means of promoting reading.
Accelerated Reader or other canned program is financially out of the
picture for the time being.

I appreciate any suggestions you may have.  I will post a hit later.
--
Linda
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