Menasha Joint School District Library Newsletter - Winter 2015 Caldecott and Newbery awards, free online magazines, and more

Winter 2015

The best children's books: Newbery, Caldecott winners announced - CNN.com The winners of the 2015 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Coretta Scott King and other prestigious youth media awards were announced Monday morning by the American Library Association. In addition to books, these awards highlight videos and other creative materials produced for children over the past year.     continue »     Read Free Online Magazines Through End of February To Login to the Free Trial: Go to: http://trial.ebscohost.com User Id: s6242848 Password: trial Good through the end of February Let me know if there are magazines we should make part of our permanent online collection.     2015 Building STEAM with Día book lists | Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) The four Building STEAM with Día book lists are available for children from birth to Pre-K, kindergarten to 2nd grade, 3rd to 5th grade and 6th to 8th grade. PDFs of the reading lists are available online in full color and are free to download, copy and distribute.     continue »     BadgerBite: Student Research Center - YouTube Watch this short tutorial to learn how you can use Student Research Center to find helpful resources. BadgerLink (www.BadgerLink.net) is Wisconsin's online library which provides access to licensed content such as magazines, newspapers, scholarly articles, videos, images, and music.     continue »     TeachingBooks.net | Common Core Standards Support Identifying exceptional and relevant books for your classroom, Providing ready-to-use instructional materials for each text, Exposing students to a range of text types, formats, and cultural perspectives, Analyzing books with qualitative and quantitative text complexity measures. Select your grade level band on the left to get started.     continue »     Author, April Henry, to Visit We are working on a April date for author, April Henry, to visit our middle and high school.  Stay tuned for more information.     Best Adult Books for Teens (or Yourself) 2014 Above the Dreamless Dead, ed. by Chris Duffy All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr                                   Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Fever by Megan Abbott Lock In by John Scalzi The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman The Martian by Andy Weir Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Red Rising by Pierce Brown The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero     Library Resources Guidebook Lists resources available through the libraries, along with library staff and contact information.

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Menasha School District Library Newsletter - Winter Holidays - Wi Media Lab, Books to Read Before they are Movies, etc.

Wisconsin Media Lab: A Great Resource Many are Not Using Wisconsin Media Lab offers FREE downloadable and streaming videos, online activities, legal images, mp3 sound files and lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school classrooms.  Some of resources available from this site are Bill Nye videos, Into the Book, This Week in Rap (raps out the news of the week), Digital Science Online, Wisconsin Biographies, Draw Me a Story, Democracy It Is!, Exploring Wisconsin Our Home, Math in Our Lives, Financial Literacy, Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists, etc. Next year Brainpop and Brainpop Jr may also be located on this site. [continue...] New Books to Overdrive Recently some publishers have agreed to release their books in ebook format. Dr Seuss is now available on Overdrive along with the Origami Yoda series. Overdrive Connect2Texas - Free Video Conferences for the Classroom There are many great sessions available free for classrooms through Connect2Texas.  One upcoming event even allows students to ask questions to Barbara Bush. [continue...] Read it Before it Becomes a Movie  Here is your chance to read the book before the movie comes out. [continue...] Happy Holidays from the Menasha District Library Staff Library Resources Guidebook Lists resources available through the libraries, along with library staff and contact information.

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Menasha School District Library Newsletter - Late Fall 2014

Early Winter 2014     High School Library Open to Students and Staff The high school library is now open to staff and students.  It is not operating at full capacity yet, but the students are enjoying the changes they have seen.  Here is a preview of what it looks like so far:     Our Favorite Books We Read in 2014         [continue...]     BrainPop's New Concept Mapping Feature BrainPOP's new concept mapping tool Make-a-Map helps students connect what they already know to new ideas or material they're learning. Concept mapping gives students the chance to transform information into knowledge by making meaningful connections between their thoughts and ideas using BrainPOP images, keywords, and movie playback clips as resources to get them started.     [continue...]     Overdrive now includes some books with narration built right in (think TumbleBooks without annimation).  Some of the books with narration are Robert Munsch books, Blast Off to Reading Non-Fiction books, and more.  They are great for use with the smartboard or a reading center.     TeachingBooks.net | About TeachingBooks.net Introductory Movie with Nick Glass, Founder of TeachingBooks.net TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K-12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.  Hit Continue to View 4 minute video!     [continue...]     - The Things I Did That Stopped A Love of Reading - Article from Tech & Learning I have always had good intentions, my heart and mind has always been in the right place whenever I have done anything “to” my students.  I don’t think any teacher sets out to destroy, I don’t think any teacher wants to harm a child’s love of reading.  And yet, they say that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and nowhere is that more visible than when it comes to our reading instruction.  When I look back upon the things that I have done, the things that I did because I thought they would help, but now know the results, oh boy. Well, let’s just say I am lucky that I have had amazing students that have helped me see the wrong in my rights. - See more at: http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=8422#sthash.4XaCUKc3.dpuf     [continue...]     Library Resources Guidebook Lists resources available through the libraries, along with library staff and contact information.   Any questions or comments?  Contact Jennifer Peterson