Building a Home Library bibliographies below to provide guidance to parents, grandparents, and others interested in assembling a high-quality library for their children at home. When creating these lists, the committee looked to include tried and true classics, under the radar gems, multicultural books, and new, yet notable, reads for all ages.
Authoritative sources are crucial to literary scholarship, but sometimes it’s difficult to know which source is the right one, or even if there is an agreed-upon authoritative version of a particular work.
Database resource: It's said that in a recession, people opt for old-world comforts. While in the electronic world there isn't much that's old world, the librarians who responded to this year's call for best-database nominations name some mainstays that are likely to inspire some e-nostalgia. Consumer Reports, CultureGrams, and Guide to Reference are resources we've relied upon in libraries for years, and their electronic incarnations are now bringing solid, back-in-the-day reference to the Wikipedia generation.
Students, teachers and the public turn to their librarians for help researching everything from technology to genealogy to homework help and lesson plans. Even if your library is equipped with subscriptions and memberships to top of the line databases and online journals, you've probably had to get creative during a patron's requested search for something unfamiliar.
The website is ifaketext.com. Your students can create a text message conversation, between two characters in a book, for example, or people from history.
Here are a few non-fiction texts that I would include in an intermediate grade classroom library. Some of these texts you might want to group together into a read aloud text set or as a set of inquiry texts that students would read together in small groups.
There are ways you can bring the idea of Twitter into your classroom.
*Debbie note: this reminds me of a wonder wall! I would love to create a Twitter book review wall in the library. Shall investigate!
Booktalking is one of the most effective way to get kids reading. Entice young readers to open a book … engage their interest … invite them into a story.