What are Book Shares?
Book shares are a literature-based project that my students do twice in each grading period. The goals of this project are: • to engender in students a love of reading. • to give students a source of new book titles which might interest them. • to get students excited about books. • to encourage daily reading at students’ own reading levels. • to practice and master the following AKS objectives: • read for a purpose • independently select, initiate, and complete reading of long works • compare and contrast content between texts • identify author, illustrator, publisher, and publication date of a work • present information through reports, demonstrations, and projects • use the media center as a source of pleasure • write summaries • edit for spelling, fragments, and run-on sentences Students are asked to choose a novel (chapter book) on their own reading levels to read for the project. After a student has finished reading the book, he or she creates a presentation that is designed to “
Sometimes referred to as non-certificate shares, the book share is simply a share that is held by a transfer agent, rather than being held in the possession of the owner or client. The book shares are recorded in the records that are maintained by the agent, so that there is always a permanent record of the value of the shares, and who holds the rights to the shares. However, the actual stock certificates are never printed or forwarded to the investor. Uncertificated shares are not uncommon at all. One of the more common applications of the idea of book shares involves mutual fund shares. Mutual funds are often used as part of the investment strategy for corporate retirement programs. Today, many of these programs allow employees the opportunity to change their preferences on the funds that are utilized for their individual share of the retirement plan. Obviously, issuing certificates when members of the plan have the option of making changes on a recurring basis would not be practical
