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Why Bookhooks?
Bookhooks is an innovative and exciting forum for student responses to the books read at school and home. The website encourages both editorial (review/report) and generative (story, poem, drawing, photograph) responses to books. Bookhooks motivates students by giving them the opportunity to publish their writing and illustrations to the world. They can email reports to their friends, family and teacher. They can spellcheck reports online. Students can browse other student reports by keyword, author, reporter, title or genre. Bookhooks provides structure without being prescriptive. Students may respond to texts using illustration and/or text. They may write their reports independently, or respond to genre- or theme-related questions. They can even review specific books using a series of questions scripted by teachers, librarians, parents, or by the book's author! Books get their hooks in each of us. Enjoy Bookhooks! I encourage teachers to use it in the classroom - download the blackline masters and other materials in our Resources pages. Play the games for Active Readers. Please download the Flash Bookmark and place it on your website. It displays a randomly selected Bookhooks report (updated every five minutes) and provides a friendly front-end to begin a report. Try our online style guide and Word template. Bookhooks is a free and convenient resource for library reading programs. We don't sell books here, but we do promote great stories and encourage student responses to texts! Your ideas and suggestions are always welcome. This website has been designed to be dynamic, organic—the makings of a collaboratory. A collaboratory is like a physical lab, providing a space for research, for shared projects, providing tools and links to make it all happen. Collaboratories--in being web-based--transcend geography, institutions and time. A good collaboratory will allow you to get more out of it than you give. The Bookhooks site has reached the tipping point and you will get lots out of it. Please do consider contributing to it! Here is a list of ways that you and your students can contribute. Sincerely, |
Bookhooks.com is one of a number of literacy websites created by Hoadworks Avocabo is a high school level vocabulary series. Download a sample lesson and give it a spin (or complete the PDF online and have it automatically graded!) The Poem Repair Shop is the webquarters for a senior highschool online writing course taught by Hoadworks' President Adrian Hoad-Reddick (password protected - send an email for access codes) The Poem Repair Shop Radio Show The PRS Radio Show is a celebration of the written and spoken word, airing Thursday nights, 9-10 p.m. on CFRU 93.3 in Guelph (available via webstream and digital archives on the CFRU's website, www.cfru.ca). We feature the work of aspiring writers. Send us student writing! Hoadworks features many original word games and puzzle features. Register to receive a word game-a-day via the Wordly Wise listserver! What is today's Feature Word Game? Come find out and bring your noggin! Read a biography of Hoadworks' President Adrian Hoad-Reddick.
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enrich the lives of children when we encourage them to read, when we model
reading, when we introduce readers to new authors, and each time we take
them to the local bookstore and library. Bookhooks.com applauds teachers,
parents and librarians who champion reading and meaningful responses to
books.
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