Settling in with your students and a good book

Dear Colleagues:

It's that time of year, time to find a good book to escape the cold days of winter.  Are you and your students up for a longer read?  Ohio Literacy Resource Center's Eureka! Agora website can help you locate a book, based on your students' interests and reading levels, with suggested teaching strategies and lesson plans, too.

The Trade Books project [its official name] began in 1994 with a group of adult literacy professionals in Ohio who reviewed books published for children and young adults that would be interesting and enjoyable for adult learners to read in the classroom or in tutoring situations. The result is the searchable database, known as Eureka!, of over 1000 books, lesson plans and teaching strategies, thematic collections, and other web resources.  The current committee of 16 educators selects and reviews approximately 75 new books each year.

Here is a link to the Thematic Collection and I hope you will scroll down to the Health Collection.  Interested in fiction or nonfiction with a health theme?  Need a book at NRS instructional levels* 1 or 5 or somewhere in between?  No problem.  Did you find a book you can recommend?  I wonder if the group would be interested in identifying a book for us (and students) to read and discuss during the cold days of February.  Have a suggestion?

Cynthia

*Note: The NRS level is based on readability. Students at higher NRS levels will be able to read the book independently. Those at the NRS level listed on the chart will need teacher/tutor assistance to read the book successfully. Students with lower NRS levels can also benefit from the text if it is read aloud by the teacher or other advanced reader.