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Boost Your STEAM Program with Great Literature and Activities
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by Liz Knowles, EdD, and Martha Smith Published: June 2018 Pages: 175 Size: 7x10 Books and activities for teaching literacy in your Pre-K through Grade 8 STEAM program. You've created a STEAM program in your library, but how do you work literacy into the curriculum? With this collection of resource recommendations, direction for program deve...

Fundamentals of Library Instruction
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Monty McAdoo 128 Pages 6 x 9 Being a great teacher is part and parcel of being a great librarian. In this book, veteran instruction services librarian McAdoo lays out the fundamentals of the discipline in easily accessible language. Succinctly covering the topic from top to bottom, he Offers an overview of the historical context of library ins...

Guided by Meaning in Primary Literacy: Libraries, Reading, Writing, and Learning
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Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Kelley Barger, Karla James, and Kristy Hill ISBN-13: 9781440843983 297 pages • 8½ x 11Year Published: 2016 Using a research-based approach, this book examines the critical connections between writing and reading, and it explains how to encourage early literacy in the classroom and library. How can teachers and libraria...
Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News
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by Denise E. Agosto, Editor Published: October 2018 Pages: 168 Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Learn how to teach library users how to identify and combat fake news. Going beyond the fake news problem, this book tackles the broader issue of teaching library users of all types how to become more critical consumers and sharers of information....

Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis
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Edited by Shelbie Witte, Don Latham, and Melissa Gross 176 pages 6 x 9 October 22, 2018 published in partnership with National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Paying attention to subtext is a crucial component of literacy. However, the concept of peritextual analysis takes such examination much further, teaching readers how to evaluate in...
Makers with a Cause: Creative Service Projects for Library Youth
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by Gina Seymour Published: June 2018 Pages: 147 Size: 7x10 Activities to provide students with the inspiration to create and engage with their community. This quick-start guide explains how to use inquiry to promote civic engagement in the school library makerspace and provides ready-to-use ideas for hands-on service projects. By creating for...

Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World
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Edited by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson 240 pages 6 x 9 January 17, 2019 Foreword by Troy A. Swanson Metaliteracy, Jacobson and Mackey’s revolutionary framework for information literacy, is especially well suited as a tool for ensuring that learners can successfully navigate the proliferation of fake news, questionable content, and out...

Motivating Students on a Time Budget: Pedagogical Frames and Lesson Plans for In-Person and Online Information Literacy Instruction
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Sarah Steiner and Miriam Rigby 332 pages 6" x 9" 2019 As librarians, we often find ourselves outside the traditional structure of our education system. Time limits add another layer of complexity; how can we motivate students to learn when we only see them for an hour or two? Motivating Students on a Time Budget begins with a section of researc...
News Literacy: The Keys to Combating Fake News
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by Michelle Luhtala and Jacquelyn Whiting Published: May 2018 Pages: 173 Size: 7x10 Lessons to help students recognize "fake news" when they read it. At a time when misinformation in the media is abundant, this book explains the difficulty in nurturing students to become critical researchers and offers practical lessons that empower ...

School Library Makerspaces in Action
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by Heather Moorefield-Lang, Editor Published: March 2018 Pages: 147 Size: 7x10 Experience the successes and challenges of implementing maker learning spaces with this user-friendly book. Maker learning spaces in schools and public libraries are made real through the narratives of professional librarians around the world, compri...

Springboards to Inquiry: 50 Standards-Based Lessons for K-5
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by Paige Jaeger and Mary Boyd Ratzer 145 Pages 8 1/2 x 11 New and experienced elementary librarians will love these ideas to infuse excitement into their day. This collection of ideas for lessons provides school librarians with inspiration for meeting the tsunami of new standards dictating change for today's next generation learners. Today's ...
Storytime and Beyond: Having Fun with Early Literacy
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by Kathy Barco and Melanie Borski-Howard Published: October 2018 Pages: 130 Size: 8 1/2 x 11 Techniques for encouraging literacy through fun, imaginative, and musical storytimes. Join the world of balloons, pancakes, and musical instruments—just a few items that can help to improve early literacy in the library, in the classroo...
Teaching Coding through Game Creation
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by Sarah Kepple Published: August 2018 Pages: 197 Size: 7x10 Computer coding education makes perfect sense in libraries. This guidebook shows you how to lead this next revolution in learning. This engaging guide demonstrates how easy, fun, and rewarding it can be to teach and learn coding at the library. In our technology-ob...
The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition
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Stephen D. Krashen 180 Pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed. Krashen also explores research s...
Transforming Information Literacy Instruction: Threshold Concepts in Theory and Practice
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by Amy R. Hofer, Silvia Lin Hanick, and Lori Townsend Published: November 2018 Pages: 120 Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Threshold concepts are the backbone of the revised 2014 ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. Learn how to apply this influential theory in the context of your information literacy instruction. This book provides informat...
Using Technology to Support High-Impact Educational Practice
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by Karen S. Ivers Published: December 2018 Pages: 140 Size: 8 1/2 x 11 Not all young people prefer to read on screens, and boys do like fiction. Emphasizing the importance of preparing students for the global workforce, this title explains how to teach using the latest educational technology. As technology becomes more advanced and acce...