[LM_NET] SHARE: "Find A Book" Lexile site

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

If you're using Lexiles and want to share information with your
students, teachers, or parents about which books might be most
appropriate for students' reading abilities, here's a site that
provides a simple search to locate titles that will match.  Titles can
be chosen and lists can be printed to help parents / students /
teachers for consideration.

This is a pilot site which provides opportunities for parents and
teachers to help students throughout the summer.

http://www.lexile.com/findabook/

http://www.lexile.com/findabook/StudentInfo.aspx

  Here's a blurb from their site:

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"This site provides a quick, free resource to battle "summer slide" –
the learning losses that students often experience during the summer
months when they're not in school.

Just click "Find a Book" to get started. Tell us what you want to read
about. Fill a BookBag with books at your reading level, print it out,
and take it to your local library or bookstore to get those books.
Then get busy reading! Parents and kids can fill a family BookBag
together and tape it to the refrigerator door to keep track. Teachers
can fill BookBags to send home with their classes. Librarians can help
kids fill a BookBag and then find those books on the shelves."

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Enjoy!

~Shonda
-- 
Shonda Brisco, MLIS
Library Media / Technology Specialist
Digital Bookends wiki / blog:
http://digitalbookends.pbwiki.com
http://shonda.edublogs.org/
sbrisco@gmail.com

Resources for Texas School Librarians:
http://txschoollibrarians.ning.com/
http://txschoollibrarians.wikispaces.com/

"Digital Resources" columnist
School Library Journal

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