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Dear Bernardine I see the promotion of reading as one of the two most important things I do in my library, the other being working with the kids. Therefore I do lots of different things to get the books into their hands. 1. Displays, displays, displays - on anything and everything using as much razzle-dazzle as I can to attract attention. At the moment I have themes of The Centenary of Federation with novels that are set in the various stages of our history; Family Favourites which features all those 'classics' that our grandparents read like The Water Babies (and this is now being extended to having school families send me in their list of family favourites and photos of their families for display); Survival, capitalising on the interest in the TV show; Teachers Top 10 where the teachers display their favourite books and write why; Scholastic Book Club Highlights for the current issue; New Releases; Traditional tales which makes finding the fairy tales so much easier for the little ones; and my current favourite, Fantasy, which is all the fantastic Harry Potter stuff that my US colleagues have sent me plus a few extra things including a Sorting Hat that the kids can .put on and listen to the song. I strung some Christmas lights around the ceiling then swathed it a length of sheer black fabric and hung all sorts of cheap Christmas decorations to create the effect of the Great Hall at Hogwarts. Some cardboard boxes and silver paint made a model of Hogwarts. 2. I have all the series together in baskets so the kids can just come and select the next one, and each series has a card that tells the kids the titles that we have. 3. Last year I allocated about $500 of my budget for our senior kids (Yr 5/6) to choose books for the library from a selection from my local bookseller. We did lots of stuff in a unit I called "Don't judge a book by its cover" and after making their selection and discussing the sorts of criteria that make a 'good' book, the kids had to read their choice and decide if it lived up to its promise. They loved it. 4. Wherever there is space to have a book's cover facing the kids, I use it. 5. I created Read Around Australia (a poor man's version of The ReadIn) so kids read and discuss and do via email with other schools. 6. We join in Book Raps which are another form of electronic book discussion. 7. I read, read, read to the kids, anything and everything.and I get the principal and any other person passing by to come in to read too.The kids also have the chance to borrow at least 16 sessions a week. I have taken up enough bandwidth but really the list goes on forever - the only thing I don't do is have a reward-based system such as AR Hope this helps - I would love to see other people's ideas. Cheers Barbara Barbara Braxton Teacher Librarian Palmerston District Primary School PALMERSTON ACT 2913 AUSTRALIA T. 02 6205 6162 F. 02 6205 7242 E. barbara@dynamite.com.au W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au "Together, we learn from each other." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=