I recently completed my first "professional" booktalk. I must say, it was quite exciting to finally use all of the knowledge I had been storing in grad school in a real school setting.
The positives:
1. Doing the booktalk in teams of 2 made me more comfortable. I had someone else to back me up, and I felt less "on the spot".
2. Encouraging class participation makes the booktalk more interesting. This may seem obvious, but it really helps to welcome questions from students and encourage them to offer their own opinions of the books you talk about.
The main problem I encountered was that I had a lack of books that would appeal to boys. There are numerous amounts of YA books that feature female lead characters. Where are all the boys?
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