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Libraries and Literature go together! Presentations by Pat Pledger from ReadPlus and Susan Stephenson from The Book Chook as well as other useful links and ideas to support the promotion on literature
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FOR THE LOVE OF LITERATURE
PRESENTERSSUSAN STEPHENSON – THE BOOK CHOOK
PAT PLEDGER – PLEDGER CONSULTINGSUE JOHNSTON – ASLA DIRECTOR
Australian School Library Association Inc.
Australian School Library Association Inc.
Housekeeping
Sue JohnstonFacilitator for this
webinar
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Promote reading
Activities and strategies to promote readinghttp://www.readplus.com.au/download/SamplePromoteReading.pdf
ReadPlus Encourage a love of reading
• Online database of fiction and films with over
16,000 titles. • Book and film lists under themes, book
reviews, author sites, book marks, lesson plans and resources.
• You can search for titles using theme, author, title, genre and age-range.
• http://www.readplus.com.au/
Free trial at http://www.readplus.com.au/trial.php
Free ReadPlus Review Blog• http://www.readplus.com.au/blog.php• Free reviews of new books written by teacher
librarians and teachers
• Reviews approximately 15+ new books weekly• Written by experts in children’s literature• Covers range of ages – pre-school to adult• Used for front page of ReadPlus• http://www.readplus.com.au/• Used as part of ReadPlus database• Published in Opinion
Writing a book review
• Give a personal response• Reviews are subjective:• http://www.readplus.com.au/reviews/reviews
index.html
Book reviews index
Searching ReadPlushttp://www.readplus.com.au/
Searching ReadPlus
Searching ReadPlusUsing results
Literature to support the Australian curriculum
Literature to support the Australian curriculum: History
Literature to support the General Capabilities
Literature to support the Geography Curriculum
• At editing stage• May be published August
Senior fiction Bk 4Booklists for frequently asked topics
Fiction themes K-7 Vol 2Booklists for frequently asked topics
Easy library displays bk 1 and bk 2
Contact details
• http://www.readplus.com.au• http://www.weblinksresearch.com/products/• Pat Pledger• [email protected]• PO Box 7426 HUTT STREET. SA. 5000.• Ph. 82328360• Fax 82328362
THE BOOK CHOOK• organization of my articles at The Book
Chook is via categories: celebrating, learning, reading, writing, creating, reviews.
• www.thebookchook.com
Susan Stephensonwww.susanstephenson.com.au
My background:• I’m a retired classroom teacher; currently writing about
children’s education. • My passion is finding ways to involve kids in learning and
creating. • Librarians have always been my heroes, especially
Teacher Librarians.
What do I offer?
• Goodies galore!• A social media presence, The Book Chook, and my
website. • Enthusiasm, pragmatism and hard work.
Children’s Literature:• children’s book reviews each Wednesday• encouraging kids to read – books, digital books, online• extending the literature experience – activities• activities to support special days eg Children’s Book
Week, NSS, Fairy Tale Day
Children’s Literacy:• activities to develop literacy skills• tips for young writers• encouraging reading and writing of poetry• visual literacy • digital and information literacy
Children’s Learning:• themed activities• resource round-ups• web 2.0 tools• iPad app reviews
Celebrations:• Activities for Children’s Book Week 2014• Last Minute Ideas for Children’s Book Week 2014• Resources for National Simultaneous Storytime 2014• Dance Like a Chicken Day• Fairy Tale Day• Apps and Activities for Hallowe’en
Questions?
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Other resources for those who love literature
The following are a selection of links, sites and other
suggestions to assist the promotion of literature to
students, staff and others in our school communities.
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Other resources for those who love literature
BooktopiaASLA has a partnershipwith Booktopia throughwhich our organisationbenefits from yourpurchases of resourcesspecifically related to theAustralian NationalCurriculum (or otherpromotions).
http://www.booktopia.com.au/
Their current campaign is Kids Month.
http://www.booktopia.com.au/books-online/kids-month/promo238.html
You can subscribe to the Booktopia newsletter
Caroline Baum Buzz has great book reviews etc
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Booktopia
Click Read More
Click on Australian Curriculum Link and start shopping!
www.asla.org.au
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Book Week for beginners wiki
Barbara Braxtonhttps://
bookweek-for-beginners.wikispaces.com/home
Also, http://bookweek-for-beginners.wikispaces.com/creating_a_reading_culture
Happy to have others contribute ideas etc
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Inside a Dog
www.insideadog.com.au
State Library of Victoria
Book ReviewsForumsTeacher Notes Author in residence etc
Currently have young adult You’re the voice program openhttp://insideadog.com.au/blog/youre-voice-have-your-say-and-get-paid-it-too-0
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Murder in the Library
Thank you to TL’s at Gleeson College in SA for sharing this idea.
Aim was to improve students library skills while having fun.
The idea behind this activity is to encourage our students to use a variety of research, library use and ICT skills. In order to solve the 5 clues each week and the three parts of the mystery, the students need to use the Library Catalogue to search for texts, read QR Codes using their BYOD/smart phone, search the fiction and non-fiction shelving, find out where different collections are kept in the library and use their powers of observation.
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Murder in the Library
It is an excellent way to introduce and encourage the use of the library catalogue.
It could tie in with a display of Mystery books. Ask teachers to nominate their favourite childhood / or adult mystery. Search for images to use – eg detectives, magnifying glass, crime scene tape etc
Structure: The Lego movie’s Emmet, has been found murdered in the Library. Who did it? Where is the suspect hiding? Why was Emmet murdered?
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Murder in the Library
The mystery is run over 3 weeks, with one question per week. The five clues will take a student approximately 10-15 minutes to work through. They can work singly or in pairs/small groups. Each student who hands in an answer sheet gets a lucky dip prize. (multi packs of chocolates, lollies, stationery are ideal for this). Caution the ‘detectives’ to stay quiet and not spoil the mystery for others.
If you run your own mystery, please share on the local and national lists!
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Love 2 Read
http://www.love2read.org.au/
Download logo from site (and use according to conditions)
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AustLit
All Australian schools have free accesshttp://www.austlit.edu.au/
Works that could be used in relation to the Centenary of World War 1 and Anzac Day
Information relevant to the 3 cross curriculum priorities of the Australian Curriculum
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AustLit
The relevant projects are: Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing
(AACLAP) at http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/ChildLit/AsianAustChildLit
This also relates to the "Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia" priority.
BlackWord http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/BlackWords which is about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literary cultures (NB This project contains adult works as well as children's texts.)
Environmental Children's and YA Texts which is under development at the moment so not accessible but will be great for sourcing texts on Sustainability. It will come online late in the year or early January.
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Book Week
It is nearly time for Book Week!
Enjoy sharing the love of literature when and where ever you can!
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Additional information
The PowerPoint presentation will be available athttp://www.slideshare.net/ASLAonline
Membership information is available athttp://www.asla.org.au/membership.aspx
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