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"Providing media specialists, teachers, teacher helpers, and parents with guidance to using beginning chapter books in encouraging first and second graders to read independently, this book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Providing complete bibliographic information, each lesson also features complete overviews of setting, characters, plot, solution and book summary."--BOOK JACKET.
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In the summer of 2016, Bratt began a personal introspection of how she interacted with the families in her storytimes, and how race placed a direct part in her creation of storytime sessions. She that, though there was a need and a desire to change the narrative, people didn't know how to do it; they were afraid, or felt unequipped. This book is the result of the training sessions Bratt developed: designed to create a space for reflection, growth,...
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"Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement,...
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"The guide identifies seven reader-driven appeals, or themes, that are essential to successful readers' advisory: awakening new perspectives; providing models for identity; offering reassurance, comfort, strength, and confirmation of self-worth; connecting with others; giving courage to make a change; facilitating acceptance; and building a disinterested understanding of the world. By becoming aware of and tapping into these seven themes, librarians...
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"This guide includes hundreds of selections for grades K-3 published since 2007 recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. The titles are grouped by subject and complemented by School Library Journal's 'Focus On' columns, which spotlight specific topics across the curriculum"--Back cover.
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With children's schedules packed more than ever, offering high-quality programming will help parents see the library as an essential part of the children's education. Shaia has integrated books, music, and projects around popular themes and series books, divided into three grade levels, and shows you how to revitalize your children's department.
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Libraries have an incredible role in helping children develop a lifelong enjoyment of learning. This guide shows how Carroll County (Maryland) Public Library developed a program to train adults in promoting school readiness, with age-appropriate books, play materials, and learning opportunities.
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Challenges or questions regarding the content in children's books are very common, but rarely do they result in book banning. No public or school library is immune to those who want to deny children's access to certain books and materials. Scales has compiled a tool to help librarians, teachers, and young readers become aware of the social issues that are most often at the center of the majority of book challenges for children.
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"Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book--every day of the year! This fresh, inventive reference book is a dynamic way to showcase the gems, both new and old, of children's literature. Each page features an event of the day, a children's book that relates to that event, and a list of other events that took place on that day. Always informative...
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Once upon a time, you were a nerdy child, and now that you're a parent, let's make sure your kid can be a nerdy child too! In a world filled with superheroes, wizards, spaceships, and magical telephone booths, everyone should be part of a fandom, and you can never start too early. This is for the parents who want to share their fantastical interest with their children in hopes that they too will grow up to become little nerds.
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There are challenges to creating programs for mixed-age groups over a wide range of developmental stages, while keeping these programs "age appropriate" and engaging the children. This book offers the background knowledge and framework to use as a springboard for understanding the complexity of interactions with children, and for increasing your own creativity as you plan and present storytimes.
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"An introduction by Common Core experts Mary Ann Cappiello and Myra Zarnowski offers perspectives on the key changes brought by the new standards, including suggestions on designing lessons and sample plans. Following the introduction is an authoritative guide to approximately 200 selections published since 2007 for grades 406 recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. These are grouped by subject and complemented by School Library Journal's 'Focus On'...
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Providing descriptive annotations of the best children's picture books published in the last decade, this comprehensive overview is perfect for librarians, teachers, parents, daycare providers, and anyone who works with young children. It is both an excellent tool for collection development and an abundant resource for planning storytimes and other children's programming. With selections based on proven appeal and quality, Northrup's survey features...