Coming in 2007

Stretchy Lesson Plans

Stretchy Lesson Plans (8 volumes) gives tips, lessons, duplicating masters, forms and advice for many curriculum topics and library events. Along with K-5 lessons for every month, this series will answer questions like: How do you start and maintain a birthday book club? Plan for and run a book fair? Recruit and train volunteers? Know which children have books out each week? Use puppets with children? and many others. This series is for other librarians, but also for aides and volunteers who are running libraries with little or no professional help.

A Pet for Every Person

Teach your students the features of nonfiction using their favorite subject—pets! Use the big book to discuss and model nonfiction features as a class, then have the students work in groups using the student books to complete the worksheets, games and activities outlined in the teacher guide. Students will learn about nonfiction features such as table of contents, captions, time lines, charts, maps, appendix, glossary and more.

Includes a 16 x 20", 24-page big book; ten 5 x 7", 24-page student books and a 40-page teacher’s guide. (Upstart Books)

Reaching Every Reader: Promotional Strategies for the Elementary School Library Media Specialist

The current edition of Reaching Every Reader provides many examples, activities and reproducibles to build on students' multiple intelligences, including puppetry, storytelling, readers' theater, games, music, library centers and much more. The revised edition will be just as useful, but will deliver more information and activities related to collaboration with teachers and integrating library lessons with curriculum.

• New librarians learn "how it's done;" the experienced find fresh approaches, for minimal to great collaboration with teachers.
• Storytelling and puppetry blend with technology use, with options for varying learning styles and skill levels.
• Save time and effort by adapting the centers, worksheets, and ideas of this experienced and enthusiastic librarian to your own situation! Many can be used right away, with little preparation. All can be used with collaborating teachers, though many don't require it.
• You'll find examples of ways to plan cooperative lessons, techniques for storytelling with simple props, puppeteering plans, games, chants and songs, creative dramatics and virtual field trips, plus ways to brighten the days of faculty and staff - and see an increase in library usage as well as good will! All chapters contain Internet extensions and really useful Web sites.

Revised!

Reaching Every Reader: Instructional Strategies in the Library for Grades K - 5 Second Edition   (Linworth Books)

Open the cover of this updated popular title and find fresh ways to promote the library with a focus on collaboration and student learning.

• Customize each lesson and activity to meet local standards.
• Find a variety of fun, practical, academically sound lessons that can be used today.
• Many lessons can be completed in one class period and with or without teacher assistance

More best selling lessons from Pat Miller offer ways to plan cooperative lessons and techniques for storytelling with simple props, puppeteering. The book is full to the brim with the plans, games, chants and song, creative dramatics, and virtual field trips, that readers count on from national presenter and author Pat Miller.  Find ways to brighten the days of faculty, staff, and students using this resource which includes 30 reproducibles.  You will reach and involve every one of your readers when you use the lessons and ideas in this hands-on, minds-on lessons!

We're Going on a Book Hunt

Use this children’s picture book to remind students of the correct way to find and check out a book that fits their reading ability. Based on the old children’s rhyme about a bear hunt, this bouncy poem will help students remember to use shelf markers, the five-finger method for sizing a book, to turn pages at their corners, and to return their books on time. Illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. (Upstart Books - Spring 2008)