These library activities for kids help kids make the most of the time they have in the library!
Carlyn McMillian
Media specialist
Discover effective strategies and best practices for media specialists in education. Enhance your role as a media specialist and support student learning with these top ideas.
Introducing our infographic to help students identify fake news articles. Looking for more resources? We’ve listed some of our favorites below!
TRIXIE ABEJAR
Learn how your school librarian can help classroom teachers with their lesson plans and classes. Find great ideas for library lessons.
Krysten Griffin
Being a brand new school librarian is both exciting and scary. All summer, you’ve planned for your new position, but today, you're feeling pretty lost.
Diana Rios
Media literacy is all about teaching elementary students how to critically analyze and understand the media they come across. Media comes in the forms of TV, social media, podcasts, music, radio, or movies. In this day and age it is very important that we start with our youngest students. Teaching media literacy in the elementary classroom doesn't have to be hard. This blog post provides classroom teachers with tips, ideas and resources for teaching this important 21st century skill.
Destyeunike
When I first started in the Media Center, I requested iPads. Within a year, I had six iPads for the Media Center and was enthusiastic about using them. A few years later, our admin purchased at least 2 iPads for all classrooms. How exciting! There are so many things that can be done with iPads. I try to use them as much as possible so that teachers can see all the wonderful things an iPad can do in the classroom. Last year our county became 1:1 with Chromebooks in 3rd grade and up. As we've…
M T
Happy New Year, everyone! If two of your New Year’s resolutions for 2018 are to save money and to treat your students to brand new resources in your school library, you definitely found the right place to start! I wrote a post a few months ago with links to over 40 free downloads from Teachers … Continue reading "(More!) Freebies for Your School Library on Teachers Pay Teachers!"
Lyza Aranda
#SchoolLibraryMonth #TLChat #Library
StickTogether
As we approach Winter Break, I realized I haven't written many blog articles lately. I moved to a new city and started in a new-to-me library this year. I've been too busy to do much blog writing beyond my infamous New Releases posts and a couple of random book reviews. I'm about 10 book reviews behind, and they may never get written at this point. It's been an exhausting few months, but Winter Break looms large and lovely on the horizon...only one more week to go!
Jordyn H.
In my AASL Knowledge Quest post, I take a look at how to transform your library space, even if you have a tight budget. There's lots of tips and advice.
Donna Patterson