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After getting countless requests for certain e-book titles, we’re excited to announce our partnership with Penguin Random House Publishing. We’re giving you and your students an extensive list of timeless titles on our platform.
The best part? We know many teachers are on their summer breaks, which means you have the opportunity to do something you may have not had the chance to do this past school year:
Read!
Some of the best teaching ideas come from reading a good book. Many educators note how inspiring it is to see different literary elements and figurative language come to life inside the pages of a book.
Best ways to implement digital literacy
Glose for Education’s annotation features enables students to closely read selections and make their thinking more concrete and visible. It provides teachers with easy formative assessments to understand student’s strengths and areas for growth. Students have the ability to highlight passages and quotes and leave notes on their thinking.
Students also have the ability to see what their friends are writing about and where they are in their reading. This makes the act of reading a much more connective and pleasurable experience.
The online tools help teachers with assigning literature circles with ease. You can assign pages to read ahead of time before the literature circle meeting. Then, designate each student a specific role within their small group:
-questioner
-summarizer
-connector
-illustrator
-word finder
Students annotate their specific job using the online tools. They’ll do this throughout their reading and then share with their group members. This will give students the opportunity to see each member’s work ahead of time, making their conversation more engaging.
The questioner adds questions as he or she reads a chapter or two, while the summarizer creates short summaries as he or she reads. The connector adds how specific passages remind him or her of their lives, personally or as a society, and the illustrator creates graphic representations of what they read, either digitally or by hand. The word finder highlights unknown words through the reading and defines them in student friendly terms.
This is all easily done with the online tools. Now students can’t lose their work or forget any papers at home because it’s all filed away online where they access it anywhere.
Rotate the jobs within each small group to give every student the chance to practice and apply different reading strategies.
Literature circles develop students’ analytical skills, linguistic discourse, collaboration and social skills. It’s a great way to get students actively involved in and facilitate their own learning. Reading discussions become student-centered instead of teacher-directed, which creates a positive learning community.
Timeless titles
An all time favorite book to read with middle school students: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is the last title on this list. It’s a timeless classic because it’s the kind of book that sticks. Even the most unmotivated student’s ears perk up when they hear about the Greasers’ trials and tribulations. It’s a book that resonates and connects.
Each of the titles below deal with timeless themes like:
-coming of age
-survival
-prejudice
-love
…and much more.
The books that connect to our students’ lives that make the biggest impact. It’s even more exciting to see them be so accessible in a digital format. Something students gravitate towards in this digital age. Check out the list of titles below and create your own account to get started.
Here is a list of our most requested Penguin Random House ebooks:
- Wonder, R. J. Palacio
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- The War that Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- The Maze Runner, James Dashner
- It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
- What I Carry, Jennifer Long
- We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
- Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults), Bryan Stevenson
- Dear Martin, Nic Stone
- Dear Justyce, Nic Stone
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
- The Cay, Theodore Taylor
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
- The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- The Pearl, John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Amal Unbound, Aisha Saeed
- Fish in a Tree, Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- Harbor Me, Jacqueline Woodson
- The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
