The following list is suggested promotion styles a
teacher can choose from, but is not limited to:
Dramatic character reenactment (Cole,
2007).
Tell something about the book, and then
leave it a cliffhanger.
Read the book commercial,
introduction, or an excerpt (Franklin &
Stephens, 2008).
Show an author website of the book
(Gunning, 2004).
Do a picture walk, pointing out
particularly scary, gross, sad, or
interesting pictures.
Share favorite part and why.
The teacher will want to make notes of which
promotion styles result in students reading the
book, which genres of nonfiction are being read
the most, and what book talk purpose is mastered
or still needs work. The teacher can use
observation notes for future book talk lesson
planning.
Conclusion
This research article provides teachers with
instructional strategies to increase nonfiction
exposure for fourth graders. It can also be
concluded that fourth graders‘ nonfiction reading
attitudes will change if weekly nonfiction book
talks are implemented. Increasing exposure of
high-interest nonfiction text will engage students
and bring balance between fiction and nonfiction
use (Bell & Caspari, 2002; Smith, 2003).
Furthermore, grade levels below fourth grade
could begin exposing students to nonfiction text
and reading for information. Sharing the
nonfiction focus with other grade l WfV