top 10 reasons your school library is the best palce for literacy

[KE Hones <khones@MUSE.SFUSD.K12.CA.US>]

To Start the school year...Please use this/adapt to your school library....

"Well equipped libraries are one of the most effective and efficent ways to
reach students and teachers." Kathy Owyang Turner, San Francisco Education
Fund
Top Ten
REASONS YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARIES IS THE BEST  PLACE FOR LITERACY.
Number 10.
 School libraries are full of interesting books and resources for reading,
viewing and using.
Number 9.
In School libraries everyone can select, retrieve, analyze, evaluate,
synthesize and create information.
Number 8.
School librarians carefully select and  organize collections of diverse
learning resources.
Number 7.
School librarians collaborate with other educators; modeling successful use
of technology and electronic communications.
Number 6.
School libraries support learners with information and problem solving
strategies.  (Have you used the Big Six?)*
Number 5.
School librarians can always suggest another great book!
Number 4.
Everyone (kids, families, staff, volunteers, everyone) can use school
libraries. They provide resources and activities that contribute to life
long learning.
Number 3.
In your school library you can check out your favorite book and read it as
many times as you want.
Number 2.
Everyone can listen to stories (storytelling, puppets, booktalks, poems,
riddles, jokes, memories)
And Number 1.
Because you need to find the third word in English that ends in gry:
Hungry, angry and....If you don't know ask your school librarian!


1.      Library Literacy Activities
Plan with your school librarian to highlight different Dewey sections
through out the year.  Research has shown reluctant readers often enjoy
non-fiction.  "Summer is the time for 700s" is an enjoyable end of the year
theme.  Hobbies, art, music, magic, sports and recreation books are all
found in the 700s.  Students can display hobbies, teach crafts and learn
about new activities to try in the summer.  Students might publish
suggestions/calendar for summer, including books, community resources and
featuring their favorite hobbies!
School library web page worldwide http://www.libertynet.org/~bertland/libs.html

2.     * The Big Six  by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz
The Big Six is an information literacy curriculum, an information
problem-solving process, and a set of skills which provide a strategy for
effectively and efficiently meeting information needs.  The Big Six Skills
approach can be used whenever students are in a situation, academic or
personal, which requires information to solve a problem, make a decision or
complete a task. This model is transferable to school, personal, and work
applications, as well as all content areas and the full range of grade
levels.  When taught collaboratively with content area teachers in concert
with content-area objectives, it serves to ensure that students are
information literate.
The Eisenberg/Berkowitz Big Six Model of Information Problem-Solving
     1. Task Definition
     2. Information Seeking Strategies
     3. Location and Access
     4. Use of Information
     5. Synthesis
     6. Evaluation
Eisenberg, Michael B. and Robert E. Berkowitz.Information
Problem-Solving: The Big Six Skills Approach to Library & Information
Skills Instruction. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1990. ISBN 0-89391-757-5
Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1988    Ablex phone # = 201 767 - 8450
Big Six web site http://edweb.sdsu.edu/edfirst/bigsix/bigsix.html

3.      If you do a search at Lycos (http://www.lycos.com) using the string
"gry" you will find an excellent reference source concerning words that end
in "gry."  They list more than 100 words and phrases: addition to hungry
and angry was "aggry" as in "aggry beads."   a kind of variegated glass
bead much in use in the Gold Coast of West Africa; puggry, a Hindu scarf
wrapped around the helmet or hat and trailing down the back to keep the hot
sun off one's neck, or gry, a medieval unit of measurement equaling
one-tenth of a line.
From the Stumper's archives:  (Webster's 3rd) aggry, puggry. From an
article in the Chicago Tribune, Ap 17, 1981 by Jack Mabley:



KE Hones                "A dreamer lives forever"
Mission High School Library
3750 18th Street #400   S.F., CA  94114
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