Reading Bingo Challenge 2014. When facing a new year filled with so many possibilities for resolutions, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start.
Do you want to challenge yourself to read more in the coming year? What about to read more widely? And where’s the motivation to stay on track? AASL 13 Book Trailer Boot Camp: From Storyboard to Film Festival by Erin Broderick on Prezi. New Friday Fun: 30 Things Librarians Love. “1.
Pointing out that you have to have a master’s degree to be a REAL librarian. 2. Metadata. 3. AASL It's True! Excellent Nonfiction for Children. 100 Great Children’s Books. Great stories never grow old!
The 5 most epic couples in YA, chosen by author Maggie Stiefvater. Blue, the heroine of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys, is cursed to kill her true love if ever she kisses him--but that doesn't stop her from pursuing the mysterious Gansey.
The newly-released sequel, The Dream Thieves, sees Blue and Gansey only growing dangerously closer. As the creator of such a high-stakes love affair, Stiefvater was the ideal person to pick the most epic YA couples. Anyone who's read my books knows my definition of "epic" is slightly different from most people's. My 10 Favorite Books From This Summer’s Reading. So You Want To Read Middle Grade: Kellie Celia. Kellie Celia is the Marketing Communications Manager, Publishing for Walden Media focusing predominantly on Walden Pond Press, a middle grade imprint co-published by HarperCollins and Walden.
There are many ideas out there about what type of book is “truly middle grade”: Books written with middle schoolers in mind; books for upper elementary school students; rare titles that can appeal to the 9-year-old and the 13-year-old reader alike. Some folks might say middle grade is anything more complex than a chapter book without the sex and romance of a young adult novel. Others might claim middle grade is defined by the age of the protagonist; any main character over 14 immediately pushes a book into young adult territory. Www.isteconference.org/uploads/ISTE2013/HANDOUTS/KEY_80781345/Podcast_New32.pdf.
21 Websites with Summer Reading Ideas for You and Your Students. This Blog Linked From Here Sites to Follow Friday, May 31, 2013 21 Websites with Summer Reading Ideas for You and Your Students.
Reading Resources On Pinterest. One of my greatest passions in life is to help children learn to read and develop a love of books.
Now that I am out of the classroom and online one way I do that is to help other parents support their own children’s learning. Digging to find activities, ideas for struggling readers ,and just the right book has never been easier. I have found incredible reading resources via Pinterest and want to share them with you. Flaws Found in Fredric Wertham’s Comic-Book Studies. For all the colorful adversaries that comic books have yielded, perhaps no figure in the history of that industry is as vilified as Dr.
Fredric Wertham. Wertham, a German-born American psychiatrist, stirred a national furor and helped create a blueprint for contemporary cultural panics in 1954 with the publication of his book “Seduction of the Innocent,” which attacked comic books for corrupting the minds of young readers. While the findings of Wertham (who died in 1981) have long been questioned by the comics industry and its advocates, a recent study of the materials he used to write “Seduction of the Innocent” suggests that Wertham misrepresented his research and falsified his results. Carol L. Tilley, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, reviewed Wertham’s papers, housed in the Library of Congress, starting at the end of 2010, shortly after they were made available to the public.
Photo Yet according to Dr. Summer Reading Recommendations 2013. Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp?
We’ve hand-picked some new favorites, all published 2012–2013, that are ideal for the season. Download a free PDF perfect for sharing with teachers, parents, and of course, kids. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion. Picture Books (Fiction and Nonfiction) Suggested grade level listed with each entry. Graphic Novels. Cover reveal: Rick Riordan's heroes meet in 'The Son of Sobek' Colorful Connections: The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld. Young Adults' Choices Project - young-adults-choices-project-jan13.pdf. Young Adults' Choices Reading List - 2013 - ira-young-adults-choices-reading-list-2013.pdf. “Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”
Bibliography Bank. The Bibliography Bank was created to facilitate the sharing of bibliographies on Judaic topics among AJL members and the public at large.
All bibliographies included in the Bank are available as PDF files. They appear in date order, but can be rearranged by title, author, or age level by clicking on the various tabs. It is recommended that key word searches or subjects be searched in Search box. Resistance and rescuers: Holocaust books for kids. When children approach their parents with inevitable questions about death, divorce, homosexuality or how babies are made, adults often turn to books to find the right words to start the discussion. The same is true of another sensitive subject that defies simple explanation: the Holocaust. There are a few thousand memoirs, biographies and novels for young people on the Holocaust published around the world, and surprisingly, more than 100 picture books, too.
It is clearly a popular subject. The first foray into the delicate topic in picture-book format was successfully attempted by the distinguished children’s author Eve Bunting with her 1980 title, “Terrible Things.” Although the author states it is about the Holocaust, she presents an allegory depicting forest animals that are carried away, one species after another, by an unseen evil force. Multicultural Middle Grade Fiction: Immigration. Middle School Edition. As part of our preparation for Common Core standards our district asked the librarians to put together a list of noteworthy novels that would help meet the higher standards for text complexity and reading level.
My two middle grade partners, Monique German and Kristen Hearne, and I will be putting together the list for our level. Priority number one for me was to become as much of an expert on Common Core as I can so I have been spending time learning the details of our new standards. If you haven't read the details on how texts are evaluated I highly suggest reading Appendix A of the standards document. There are three considerations when evaluating text: quantitative, qualitative, reader and task.
Quantitative can be measured with Lexile or a similar tool. The importance of reading for pleasure - news. Comment:4 average rating | Comments (2)Last Updated:2 May, 2013Section:news Giving children a love of books is one of the greatest gifts, says primary headteacher Bill Lord. To do this, teachers must develop and put into practice a bill of ‘reading rights’ World Book Day takes place in March every year and prompts schools to encourage children to see themselves as readers. This is undoubtedly one of the most important life attitudes that we can give our children.
Children who read for pleasure thrive academically. Former schools minister Nick Gibb, speaking last year at the launch of the government’s national reading competition, said as much: “Children should always have a book on the go. Although there is much emphasis in schools on early reading and ensuring that pupils achieve Level 4 by the end of Year 6, the reading for pleasure strand of teachers’ work is something that all schools should be exploring.
Resources for Finding Latino Kid Lit. Celebrated author Benjamin Alire Sáenz swept the Youth Media Awards on Monday with Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (S & S, 2012). The young adult novel about two Mexican-American teen boys whose friendship deepens into romance in 1987 El Paso, Texas, won the Pura Belpré Author Medal, the Stonewall Medal, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. The Hunger Games Bookmarks {Free Printable} BookFace Photo Contest - Titan Library. PRINTABLES: Book Talkers. Category Archives: Essential Readings. Top 20 Star Wars Graphic Novels, Part 1 of 4 « Good Comics for Kids. Kids Share Book Recommendations. Use Online Reading Logs, Find Books At Their Reading Level#tab/all-books. Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels.
It's almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn't just for teens anymore. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children's/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category. 214484000973800186_xBrClDAr.jpg (1201×1802) Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: BooksInTheClassroom.com. Lawrence Public Library. The Central Rappahannock Regional Library. Juvenile Series and Sequels. Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List. 2014 Maverick Graphic Novel List 2014 Maverick Graphic Novels List (pdf)