Library Literacy Books

Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

Debbie Diller

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Total reviews: 33 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Love the Work Stations 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am a first year teacher learning the ropes. I am finding the work stations very easy to implement and am enjoying the "freedom" to achieve reading level testing at week three of the school year and am looking forward to guided reading group time soon.

Amazing 5 out of 5 stars.
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I would recommend Debbie's book to all K-2 teachers! I spent TONS of time making and preparing "centers" during my 1st year of teaching and my students struggled with them. I read Debbie's book and set up my work stations according to her models - not only is it my students' favorite time of the day, but it's mine too! I also spend very little time preparing for work stations as the book explains how to use tasks that are taught during your everyday lessons (this way they easily align with the curriculum)!

I LOVE this book and just can't say enough about it! It has a permanent place on my desk!

LOVE IT 5 out of 5 stars.
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I actually have two copies of this book. I had misplaced my first copy and had to have another one. I use these ideas throughout my kindergarten classroom. It would be even better for first and second grade classrooms. I use the "I Can" lists and management board ideas. This book really helps make centers work. I plan on giving one as a gift any time I have a student teacher. If you can only buy one book, this is the one to buy!

The Oxford Guide to Library Research

Thomas Mann

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Learn in-depth ways to use library information! 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a terrific book for anyone interested in books and finding information. The author works at the Library of Congress, and has extensive experience looking for information of all kinds. he uses both print and electronic sources, and both to great advantage. His tips on using ordinary sources are exceptional; for example, did you know that the AMERICANA often prints important American speeches in their entirety? If you are a book lover, this is a useful guide, which you will use for a long time.

A Researcher's Best Friend 5 out of 5 stars.
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The third edition of Thomas Mann's "Oxford Guide to Library Research" is an indispensable friend for students and scholars, or anyone in the general public who has a hobby, a pet project or just the desire to know, and wants not only to improve their research skills but to learn - and take full advantage of - all the resources available to the library researcher in the Computer Age. When the second edition of the "Oxford Guide" was published, all the way back in 1998, computer programs in libraries were pretty much limited to a catalogue of a library's holdings, a smattering of databases perhaps, and Internet access, maybe. Dr. Mann unfolds the riches that may now be found at library workstations and the new ways to find the best on its shelves.

And you can't hope for a better guide. A reference librarian in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress for 25 years, Dr. Mann's firsthand experience in helping patrons get the most out of their library experience is evident in this book. While some would consign libraries and the outmoded technology they were built to house (known as books) to the dustbin, Dr. Mann reveals how computers have done more for library research and serious scholars than for the search for general, often disorganized and unreliable, "information" on the Web.

In the early days of computerization there was a popular acronym for the uncertain results of Internet searching, GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out). It has been supplanted nowadays by the kinder, gentler "I feel lucky" or, for the happy-go-lucky, the "sloppy search." Use these methods, whether on a search engine or a library computer catalogue, you'll likely lwind up with thousands of hits. (Good luck.) But here's Thomas Mann to the rescue. In his chapters on subject headings, on keyword searches and on Boolean combinations and search limitations, he sets out to help you define your subject concisely and precisely, and choose the search methods that will get you to the best sources for your project, instead of settling for what is "good enough." (Is it?)

In "The Oxford Guide to Library Research" you will learn how the indexed subheadings in a subject browse on the library computer catalogue can turn up unexpected sources - instant bibliographies, so to speak - that are just right for your topic, as well as how to negotiate such as the electronic databases with full-text articles from thousands of journals and newspapers. The rest of the book is devoted to the range of print and electronic resources: the specialized encyclopedias on topics that you would never imagine have encyclopedias of their own; microform and CD-ROM databases; online programs that can locate books in a more distant library if it turns out that what you seek is not available in your local branch. An innovation in this edition of the "Oxford Guide" is facsimiles of the actual search pages of major databases to illustrate examples in the text. His invaluable chapter, "Hidden Treasures," has grown by half again from the one in the second edition, now noting print collections that are also available in online databases, as well as a selection of collections exclusive to the web.

Dr. Mann's major goal is to get you to the sources you want, and ones you don't yet know you want, in the most direct and effective way; to make you think, not like a librarian, but as someone with a specific personal research goal, and to give you the knowledge and skills to accomplish it. He peppers the book with anecdotes from his firsthand experiences with researchers, the college student, the accomplished professor and the weekend scholar, while relating information in a conversational, descriptive fashion with sparing use of professional jargon. With "The Oxford Guide to Library Research" at hand when you get to work on your next project, you may discover that doing the research for it is half the fun of getting there. Or, maybe, all of it.

The Shelf Elf

Jackie Mims Hopkins

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I WANT THIS ELF ON MY SHELF ... 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a fine book for children. It has everything ... fun, excitement, magic and a big dose of education ... education not crammed down a child's throat, but presented with help from the magical, lovable elves.

Children learn library etiquette from this book ... valuable knowledge when they're first learning to read that will make their library adventures much more enjoyable.

Higly recommended.

I Use In My School Library 5 out of 5 stars.
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I loved the book and have "shelf elf helps out"and ordered the matching shelf elf plush and golden shelf elf trophy (less than $2.00, made of foam) to go with it. We now have a "golden shelf elf award" every week for 1-3rd and 4-6th grade. Keeps them motivated to keep things quiet, tidy and neat! It's posted outside our Library door where everyone can see it...
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Informative & Fun! 3 out of 5 stars.
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I must say that I was quite pleased to receive this book so quickly, which was in the "Nick of time" for Christmas! My youngest children enjoyed the story, but I think the fact that it focused on the library classification system made it not quite as interesting for casual reading.
I am going to donate this book to my daughter's kindergarten teacher or school media specialist. I feel that it is an excellent teaching story of the library and how it is organized, and it makes this somewhat dull topic fun. The fact that it comes with lesson plans makes it that much better for the elementary classroom.

Our Librarian Won't Tell Us Anything

Toni Buzzeo

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A Must Have for All Librarians or Teachers 5 out of 5 stars.
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What a fantastic book. This book is a wonderful way to help teachers and librarians to help children in learning to become independent library users. The book delivers the message in a simple and cheerful manner. The story is great for students beginning a research project, learning to use the online card catalog or searching for books to meet their individual needs and interests. This book makes a wonderful read aloud as well as a fantastic book for kids to read on their own. After reading this book students will want to become "A library success story".

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According to Carmen, a fourth-grader at Liberty Elementary, her school's librarian won't tell students ANYTHING! Fortunately, her classmate Robert doesn't believe Carmen and marches right over to ask Mrs. Skorupski question after question. Mrs. Skorupski's eyes twinkle and her rhinestone glasses sparkle as she leads Robert to the tools he needs to find the answers. Carmen scowls as she watches Robert become a Library Success Story, but eventually comes around as she realizes that Mrs. Skorupski can teach them EVERYTHING!

A Guide for Using Bud, Not Buddy in the Classroom

Sarah Clark

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pretty good book 4 out of 5 stars.
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I liked this book it was the perfect book for me at the time. It was great!

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This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, and cross-curriculum activities.

Lesson Plans for the Busy Librarian: A Standards Based Approach for the Elementary Library Media Center, Volume 2

Joyce Keeling

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The author designed this book, like Volume I of the set, to give elementary school librarians a quick, enjoyable way to coordinate with teachers to teach information literacy and literacy skills aligned with national standards. Each chapter consists of lesson plans for each grade level from K-5. In this second volume, as in the first, each chapter gives quick and easy, standard-based lessons with reproducible lesson sheets and simple directions. Each set of directions mentions teaching teams, objectives, learning modalities/Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, McCREL National Standards, AASL/AECT Standards, and detailed teaching resources/book titles. The volume contains all new lesson plans. Grades K-5.

Developing Library and Information Center Collections: Fifth Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series)

G. Edward Evans, Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro

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This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development--from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, censorhip and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect changing practices, policies, and technologies. To this end, some chapters--electronic materials, government information, audiovisual materials, and resource sharing--have been almost completely rewritten. In addition, electronic serials, introduced in the 4th edition, has been combined with its print counterpart into a single chapter. New to this edition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site () is maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up-to-date. As the authors put it in their introductory chapter, "whatever environment one works in, collection development is an exciting challenge that requires lifelong learning." Students and practicioners alike will benefit greatly from this state-of-the-art text.

Research-Based Strategies for English Language Learners: How to Reach Goals and Meet Standards, K-8

Denise M. Rea, Sandra P. Mercuri

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As a teacher, you know that two ofthe biggest issues in education today are increased accountability and surging ELLenrollments. So what do you do when every student in your class is expected tomeet standards, but some dont speak English? You reach for Research-Based Strategies for EnglishLanguage Learners. It features ways to support all students while meetingcurricular mandatesand without losing any precious planning or teaching time.

Research-BasedStrategies for English Language Learners addresses standards through four proven,effective scaffolds for learning: modeling, contextualizing, thinking aboutthinking, and reframing information. Within each scaffold Denise Rea and SandraMercuri offer ideas for strategy-based instruction that make learning moreactive, experiential, collaborative, and cognitive for all children. Rea andMercuri give you everything you need to use these strategies, including lessonplans and suggestions on implementation, as well as a review of the researchsupporting each lesson and scaffold. Finally, they tie it all together withlessons on conversational and academic English that give students thelinguistic awareness needed to become more proficient in their new language andto succeed in school.

Useable across curricular areas,adaptable to grades K8, and ideal for classroom teachers, ELL specialists, andTitle I teachers, Research-BasedStrategies for English Language Learners is the practical, classroom-testedresource youve been looking for. Use it and discover reliable strategies for connectingsecond language learners (or any learners) to content and curriculum.

Fun-Brarian: Games, Activities, & Ideas to Liven Up Your Library!

Kathleen Fox

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Good stuff! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The title of this book is absolutely correct. These activities for your school library are easy, fun and and cost little or no money.

We're Going on a Book Hunt

Pat Miller

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Friendly color illustrations of a bear family on a library trip enhance this rhyming easy reader 5 out of 5 stars.
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We're Going on a Book Hunt is a rhyming children's picturebook designed to teach young people how to use the library, from proper library etiquette to a simple process for choosing a book that's within one's reading level. Friendly color illustrations of a bear family on a library trip enhance this rhyming easy reader. "Here it is - the perfect book. / Can't be rough with it. / Can't be tough with it. / We'll have to treat it kindly." An accompanying "Library Lessons" booklet rounds out We're Going on a Book Hunt with extensive advice for parents, caregivers, and teachers in training young people to make responsible use of library facilities. A tool for teaching the joy of lifelong library patronage, highly recommended.