Book+Tour

**Book Tour**
Section 8.2 (Instructional Strategy 5)

This is a method to help students become more familiar with text features. Students are often unfamiliar with the features or tools in their texts that can assist them with comprehension of the material. This is a good strategy to use before getting into a text that is difficult to wade through or has a variety of sources in it (much like a history textbook).
 * Rationale:**

1. Introduce the Book Tour as a sort of guided tour though a museum, historical mansion, or art gallery. Ask students to think about a time where they have been on a guided tour and have them share these experiences with each other and/or the class. 2. You could also choose to act out a guided tour for your students to hook them in. Take them on a tour of the classroom or school to demonstrate. 3. Explain that you are going to take them on a tour through their textbook much like this. 4. Open the textbook and point out features that are important in a Language Arts classroom including: -Authors, Table of Contents, Titles and Subtitles, Pictures, and Primary Sources -Cartoons, Margin Notes, Bolded Vocabulary, and Chapter Questions -Index, Reference List, Appendices, Footnotes, Glossary 5. After giving students a Book Tour, have students develop a Book Tour for a text not in their own class in order to give them experience with interpreting another book all on their own.
 * Instructions:**

This would be a very useful strategy when having students start on a book like the Odyssey or anything by Shakespeare. Shakespearian plays often have footnotes, a glossary, or there are Shakespearian dictionaries all in which students can find tips and tools for how to unpack the language.
 * Applications to Language Arts:**