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Helping Your Child Use the Library - U.S. Department of Education
Grades
1 to 6In the Classroom
This site offers tips for parents from the Department of Education.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Inventing Entertainment - the Edison Recordings - Library of Congress
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): inventors and inventions (71)
In the Classroom
Download some of the sounds and recordings from the database, and use them as part of a learning center during a unit on Inventions & Inventors. Have students listen to the recordings (make sure to include headphones) on classroom computers, writing a short reflection afterwards about what they heard and what their impression was. Students could also compare and contrast the quality of the recordings, noting the vast differences in technology between then and now. This would be a very interesting resource for a US history classroom!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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U.S. Copyright Office Home Page - Library of Congress
Grades
1 to 12In the Classroom
Use this site as reference when teaching about copyright. Share with older students to investigate on their own. Share with other teachers at your school.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mentor
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1 to 12tag(s): mentoring (6), social and emotional learning (84)
In the Classroom
Share this site with your school's administration and PTSA to find out about mentoring groups in your community. If you teach middle and high school students, share the topics on the resources page and ask them what other topics could be included. Then under the programs tab, review with students what it takes to STtart a Program. I your students feel strongly enough that there needs to be another topic, you could share their feeling with your PTSA.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Classical Net
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6 to 12tag(s): biographies (95)
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That's Not Fair - Yale University
Grades
4 to 6In the Classroom
As a class, try to solve this literary mystery which involves a murder among the book shelves in a library. While working on solving who did it, students will learn about a wide variety of intermediate detective novels. Have student pair or small groups of students pick whichever one is of the most interest, and get it either online or make a trip to the school library to find the book. Have the pairs or small groups report out about their book to their peers after completion. Be sure they plan out their presentation by using a storyboard creator such as SuperNotecard, reviewed here. Students can then finalize their presentations using a tool like Make Beliefs Comix, reviewed here, or Powtoon, reviewed here. As a wrap up for this unit you may also want to have students solve the online interactive mystery Murder at the the Met: An American Art Mystery, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Booktalks - Quick and Simple
Grades
1 to 6tag(s): reading lists (79)
In the Classroom
Refer students who are looking for their next book to read to look through some of these. Use the book lists on this site for recommendations to parents who want suggestions on outside or summer readings. The lists are separated by age, gender and all kinds of category's - making it easier for parents to find what they need.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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BOOKWIRE - Inside the book business - School Library Journal
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): book lists (162), book reports (28), literature (218)
In the Classroom
Use this site to do research on book reports, or have your student look up a favorite author and learn more about him or her.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Copyright Resources - Stanford University
Grades
1 to 12In the Classroom
Be sure to share this site with your teaching colleagues and/or school librarians.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Start with a Book - Reading Rockets
Grades
K to 6tag(s): independent reading (86), parents (58), preK (258), reading lists (79), reading strategies (98), summer (30)
In the Classroom
Share this website with parents as a resource to maintain learning over the summer break. Subscribe to the weekly text messages and pass them on to parents and guardians of your students. Use the toolkits found on this site to conduct mini science or reading camps over the summer. Share the list of books with your local library and ask them to include them on summer reading lists or to conduct mini reading camps over the summer using the toolkits. These ideas aren't just for summer! Keep these toolkits handy to use when teaching science and reading during the school year to engage students. Post the Growing Readers tip sheets on your class website throughout the school year to help parents work with students at home on reading skills.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Exquisite Corpse Adventure - Library of Congress, Nat'l Children's Book & Literacy
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6 to 12tag(s): stories and storytelling (42), writing (317)
In the Classroom
Explore new worlds in reading by introducing your students to The Exquisite Corpse Adventure. Children of all ages have played progressive story games for centuries, where one person begins a story, stops at a cliffhanging moment, and the next person picks it up and continues, and so on, until everyone in the group has the opportunity to contribute. Take a look at the website to become familiar with the episodes and then put your own spin on a similar project. It can combine the tradition of oral storytelling with the written form, and even include illustrations so that you can tap into students' range of strengths and weaknesses. Whether you choose to "tighten the reigns" by setting the parameters, such as including the use of vocabulary, grammar, and literary elements you are studying, or letting it evolve spontaneously, the possibilities are endless. Best of all, the contributors get to decide what happens next. Perhaps students could be involved in creating a similar ongoing story on a class wiki (learn more about wikis at the TeachersFirst's Wiki Walk-Through). The story can continue throughout the school year and culminate with a digital story presentation created with tools from Educational Uses of Digital Story Telling reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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