Bring new visibility to your school library media program and promote its strengths to all its constituencies. Learn how to teach video production as a communications tool. Use video-making to encourage reading, writing, and research and for school news shows. Video production is not only a great way to communicate, it's also a great way to teach communication skills to students and teachers. Set up in a checklist format to save you time, this book is easy to apply to a particular need. Teaching lighting? Make copies of "The Lighting Checklist"--and if you need to learn about an item on...

Transform "lost" time into "found" learning with brief, lively activities, games, and puzzles for 4th-6th graders Choices for all major curriculum areas and building thinking and problem-solving skills.Usable by librarians, classroom teachers, and subject specialists (with librarian-friendly activities highlighted).Choices for individuals, groups, and the whole class - for pencil-and-paper use or for thinking and talking.While papers are being collected, attendance is being taken, waiting for another group to finish, or just before lunch - seize the moment and use one of these quick...

When teachers and parents are looking for snack ideas, you can highly recommend this book and tie in children's literature. Talk about reinforcing learning--there's nothing so motivating as fun food, so captivating as the story linked to it

Equipment lists and safety rules for fixing the snacks are included

Each recipe tied to a children's picture book

These snacks are also simple, cheap, easy to serve, and child-pleasers

For teachers and parents of preschool and elementary kids, and for use in middle and high school nutrition and child-development classes

Sample recipes...

Organized compilation of recent articles from LIBRAY TALK, BOOK REPORT, and Technology Connection. Arranged to increase support for funding, training, curriculum integration, Internet evaluation, and public relations. Get important tips, tricks, and techniques, nitty-gritty details as well as breakthrough ideas. All URLs updated Step back and rethink your goals "from the ground up " With this well-organized presentation of the best current and recent thinking about great library media programs, you'll round out your professional world view and easily select the areas you want to refresh....

Lesson plans and examples will help you incorporate the national language arts standards covered by standardized tests and implement the Information Power II standards into your next storytime. Specific content areas and lesson plans are included and cover literary elements, Caldecott books, folk tales, genres and nonfiction. Strategies like pair share, Big Books, reader's theater, puppet shows and choral responses encourage all students to participate and respond in storytime reading lessons, while brainstorming, composing and publishing strategies encourage participation in storytime...

Build excitement about reading with successful author/illustrator visits and "virtual visit" celebrations

Here's step-by-step help in organizing actual visits or "virtual" celebrations--including lively curricular activities. You'll find new models to help you gather community support, plus new ways to obtain funding and involve co-sponsors. All the necessary steps are covered: the choice of person, timing, place, equipment...getting the books, resource booklets, and videos...helping teachers publicize the event to students (including activities tied to various content areas)...and...

Library media specialists, classroom teachers, and other educators who work with preschool through intermediate students will find this explanatory guide immensely helpful in making thematic connections to curriculum objectives that are well-supported by literature. In the frameworks, common elementary school topics--from Apples to Zoos--are used as building blocks for classroom workshop activities. Combine the blocks to support any theme or curricular unit. You can also select activities within each topic to integrate selected books and activities into the existing curriculum, such as...