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Using NoveList to Support Reading
DoDEA Curriculum
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Three Ways NoveList Can Support Reading
? Providing a Continuum of Services?

• Fiction Database and Searches
• Book Lists and Bibliographies
• Lesson Plans and Support

Services
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NoveList
An electronic resource designed to

• Encourage independent reading
• Support your efforts to integrate fiction across
  the curriculum
• Strengthen searching skills and information
  literacy
• Enhance your schools reading environment

Electronic Resource
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NoveList Contains

• Full-text (searchable) reviews from the sources
  you trust Booklist, School Library Journal,
  Library Journal, Publishers Weekly

Database Facts
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NoveList Contains

• Enhanced subject access via over 36,000 subject
  headings

Database Facts
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• Hundreds of pre-constructed lists arranged by
  genre, topic or award

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NoveList Contains

• Lexile scores help you match books and readers.
• Note See handout for examples of Lexiles
  searches.

Tip Clicking on the Question Mark at the Lexile
column will take you to a page of information
about Lexiles.
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NoveList Contains

• Broad spectrum of search options - icon-oriented
  browsing, keyword and guided Boolean searches.

Database Facts
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Title Records

• Each title in NoveList has a title record with a
  wealth of information for readers including
  annotations, book reviews, subject headings,
  Lexile scores, web links, series information and
  more.
• Lets take a look at one

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Quick links to award lists for this title and
links to preconstructed lists on which this title
appears.
Title Record
Book cover and short summary will grab the
students interest.
Subject Headings allow students to find similar
books.
Title Record in NoveList
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• Scrolling down the same title record (Touching
  Spirit Bear), you will find
• The Lexile Score
• Full-Text reviews from both Booklist and School
  Library Journal

Title Record in NoveList
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Additional links are available for this title at
the bottom of the title record (as you scroll
down below the reviews).
Some titles also have web links to additional
teacher resource materials.
Bottom of a Title Record
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Title Record
Back to the top of the record, note the Find
Similar Books button. This search lets students
use a book they like as a template to find other
books they might enjoy reading.
Find Similar Books
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The subject headings that were on the title
record are listed as check boxes. The reader can
search with the default of all subject headings
checked or select only the subjects he is
specifically interested in.
Find Similar Books
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Find Similar Books

• A student who liked Drapers Tears of a Tiger
  could use this feature to find other books about
  African-American teenagers OR drunk driving OR
  link to YALSAs 100 Best Books (1950-2000) list.
• Readers of Watkins So Far From the Bamboo Grove
  could find other novels about child refugees in
  other countries or seek other books on girls and
  World War II.

Find Similar Books
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Finding Four Books

• E1b The student reads and comprehends at least
  four books about one issue or subject or four
  books by a single writer or four books in one
  genre, and produces evidence of reading that
• E1b1 makes and supports warranted and
  responsible assertions about the texts.
• E1b2 supports the assertions with elaborated and
  convincing evidence.
• E1b3 draws the texts together to compare and
  contrast themes, characters, and ideas
• E1b4 makes perceptive and well-developed
  connections
• E1b5 evaluates writing strategies and elements
  of the authors craft.

From DoDEA Curriculum for Ninth Grade
Tie to Curriculum
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Finding Four Books

• A student wanting to read four books by the same
  author can use the All books by author link to
  find a list of Ben Michaelsons books (a list of
  7 books will appear).
• Students looking for four books on one issue or
  subject could choose the following headings for
  lists of books child abuse, forgiveness,
  wilderness survival, anger in teenage boys.
• Students interested in finding four books in a
  genre can click on the adventure stories heading
  to get over 84 potential titles for them to
  choose from.

The ninth grade just finished reading Touching
Spirit Bear
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Describe a Plot
To foster even more independent reading

• Have students select titles from their reading
  log or annotated lists of works read. Enter
  words that they use to describe their book into
  the edit field of the Describe a Plot search.
• Because Describe a Plot searches reviews as well
  as subject headings, the words contained in the
  students logs and lists are also likely to be
  contained in the review of these books
• Brainstorm a list of interesting science
  words/topics cloning, space shuttle, vaccine,
  computers, hacking, ecology, and search for
  novels on these topics.

Using Describe a Plot
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Students who are comparing and contrasting a
particular authors style with other authors can
do the following search to find authors that
reviewers have linked on a variety of elements.
Using the Guided Boolean search, we can look for
reviews that mention an author but are not books
by him.
Guided Boolean Search
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NoveList also allows you to connect classic works
with contemporary works even in cases where
the classic is not a novel, such as Romeo and
Juliet.
Other strategies include brainstorming with
students (or individual reader) for what Romeo
and Juliet was about suicide, gangs,
dysfunctional families, doomed love affair
Guided Boolean Search
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• For students who are undecided about their
  topics, Explore Fiction is a vehicle for finding
  books in a genre or a theme
• Students looking for science in science fiction
  can browse through lists at the young adult level
  or over 50 lists at the adult level.
• A history buff can find books set in a variety of
  time periods and dealing with many different
  issues

Additional Strategies
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Other Support Materials

• Book Discussion Guides
• BookTalks
• Lesson Plans and curricular support

Electronic Resource
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New and featured material for teachers can also
be accessed by clicking the Features for Teachers
button at the top of the homepage and New Search
page.
Features for Teachers
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BookSource Non-Fiction

• Full text for over 1,600 nonfiction books
  designed for students
• All books are separated into chapters and each
  chapter is assigned a Lexile
• Benchmarks are included for Language Arts,
  Civics, Earth Space Sciences, Physical
  Sciences, U.S. World History
• 981 books are Accelerated Reader choice books

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