Children's Literature Blog

This website offers multiple Blog sites for librarians. The area chosen is Education Guides through Children’s Literature. Librarians are great resources. They keep up on reviews of the latest literature. As an elementary librarian, I chose this blog to stay informed by researching out to other librarians. I used key words library Blogs in Google to find this site.
Boston College Libraries contain a great number of resources useful for the study of children's literature. The Educational Resource Center (ERC) has a rich collection in the area of children's literature in both fiction and non-fiction. The collection includes titles ranging from teaching with children's literature to outstanding titles in children's literature. In addition, the collection contains classic titles in children's literature, award winning titles, reviews of children's literature, picture books, concept books, big books, best books for children and information about authors and illustrators. New books are added monthly to the collection and are evaluated for their quality. The reference collection at the ERC features many useful print bibliographies to assist patrons in selecting specific titles based on a child's age, subject interest or genre. The entire collection may be accessed through Quest, the online catalog.

Competency #9 Internet

I chose to put this Internet website onto my Blog because it has activities offered in the major subject areas for the preK-12 grades: math, language arts, science, social studies and the arts. As a librarian, I’m always seeking ways to help teachers. This website has something for all teachers at my school. The best part is that it is free.

PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. They provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more. You can even find local stations that are geared just for your community.
Check it out and share it with. You won’t be disappointed.

Competency #7 Image

I found this image through the search engine Google. I used content based keywords: reluctant reader to find this image. This picture goes along with my research finding books and materials for reluctant and struggling readers.

Competency #8 Research Visual

http://eltmedia.thomsonlearning.com/resource_uploads/downloads/0838403824_20899.pdf

Helping struggling students read is an area that I want to focus on in the library. Using reading fluency charts will help students monitor their own reading. Making students aware they are in control of their learning is vital for them to be independent learners. This chart fits in with my goal to help struggling and reluctant readers. I used the search engine Google and used the key words reading fluency chart.