Here are just a few examples of how NoveList is making a difference in schools across the country:

• In DeKalb County Schools in Georgia , everyone (students, faculty and administrators) have to read 25 books a year. NoveList is used as the resource to help these readers find their next book to read.
• At the Westerville/Plainsboro High School in New Jersey , NoveList is used to help students locate novels on a particular theme as part of an American Studies unit.
• The media coordinator at Moore Elementary School near Tulsa , Oklahoma uses NoveList to help her young readers find "scary books" and more titles for fans of Dav Pilkey and Judy Delton.
• At Triangle Day School in Durham , North Carolina , students use the booktalks and reviews contained in NoveList as models as they write a booktalk and a review for a book they have read independently.
• In Kentucky , a school media coordinator responds to her student's complaints about her library not having "any good books" by telling her students to find books in NoveList they would like to read-and then buying the books that they suggest. The result is that "her" library becomes "their" library.
• At Lake Bluff Middle School in Illinois , the media specialist uses NoveList to generate thematic lists of books to support her language arts teachers on their core novel/theme units throughout the year. She also uses NoveList to create reading lists to support the Social Studies curriculum (colonial period, Civil War, etc.)

In schools across the country, NoveList is helping schools make a difference by helping students become excited about reading and the library as a space that contributes to their reading lives.

Features For Teachers : Designed with the busy teacher in mind, "Features for Teachers" is a page offering information on new materials and links to many of the resources listed below. Often built around a newsworthy topic or seasonal theme, this page also offers links to relevant bibliographies and gives searching tips to enrich your results. Because busy teachers must plan ahead, a helpful list of upcoming events is appended each month to provide ideas for instructional activities. A "work-in-progress," this page hopes to maximize your utilization of NoveList, and we welcome your ideas and suggestions of ways to improve this new educational feature (use the NoveList Feedback button on this homepage or on any page in NoveList).

Specialized Bibliographies at the Easy, Children's, Young Adult and Adult Levels NoveList contains over 1200 pre-constructed booklists on a wide range of topics and genres. These lists are excellent sources for handouts or book displays . Contained as part of Explore Fiction and Best Fiction sections, these lists are also a great starting point for your readers who are browsers. Many lists are designed to address topics contained in the curriculum. For example, look at product's Explore Fiction section for Young Adults to find lists on several topics that deal with social issues confronting today's teens (including Body Image, Coming-of-age Stories, Latinos, Multicultural, Adoption, and much more).

Standards-Based Thematic Units These specially designed units emphasize the skills and strategies, literary concepts and vocabulary that enable students to comprehend and appreciate a wide range of materials. These units will help translate standards into instructional strategies for the classroom.

The units are multi-disciplinary, designated by grade level, and support a team-based approach to teaching. New units will be added on a regular basis.

Book Discussion Guides, Lesson Plans, and Feature Articles NoveList has begun developing book discussion guides for selected young adult titles. These comprehensive guides are excellent ways to support your teachers as they work to integrate young adult literature into their classes. You should also check out the book discussion guides at the adult level. Several of these titles will be of interest to you including Montana 1948 and Fahrenheit 451 .

Curriculum-Related Articles

These articles discuss various ways to use fiction in the classroom (K-12), from encouraging your students to interact with books to finding literature from around the world to teaching about survival using Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, and much more. Articles include author-focused materials, as well as articles and book lists for students at all levels.

Activities for High School English Classes

Especially designed to support the high school literature curriculum, NoveList presents a variety of completely developed activities for English students. They are directly related to the typical high school English curriculum and designed to introduce students to a variety of novels, encourage reading, and enhance the study of literature. Each activity has a brief overview, a statement of expected learning outcomes, notes to teachers, and directions for the students. Examples include:

• All Quiet on the Western Front : The Effect of War on Soldiers
• Animal Farm and Other Dystopias
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