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Guide for teachers and librarians to using graphic inquiry across the curriculum, presenting standards-based activities and projects that incorporate traditional materials with emerging technologies.

Offers guidance to teachers on integrating social studies instruction with language arts instruction through the use of picture books, highlighting how picture books can help meet each of the National Council for Social Studies' Ten Thematic Strands.

An introduction to RDA for academic, public, and school librarians.

"Organized across appeal features, this comprehensive listing of stories, biographies, and fiction is a guide to sports literature for adult and teen readers"--Provided by publisher.

"This guidebook is a must-have resource for anyone teaching a television production class or running a morning news show at the elementary, middle, or high school level"--Provided by publisher.

"Today's students need to be able to do more than score well on tests--they must be creative thinkers and problem solvers. The tools in this book will help teachers and parents start students on the path to becoming innovative, successful individuals in the 21st century workforce"--Provided by publisher.

The author provides tips and guidance for librarians and teachers to create "edu-tainment" activities to engage students in mandatory library classes and discusses how e-readers can be learning tools, how to create classes online, and ways to utilize pop culture and twenty-first-century technologies.

"To keep school libraries relevant, their physical spaces need to be reinvented to mirror 21st-century learning models. This book will enable everyone from school librarians and principals to district-level administrators, architects, and interior planners of school library spaces to reconceptualize school libraries"--Provided by publisher.

"Pairs narrative nonfiction biographies rich in language and illustrations with national content standards in...social studies, science, and the arts"--Provided by publisher.

Contains resources and ideas for pre-K through third grade teachers to incorporate read-aloud activities in the classroom, describing how to meet curriculum requirements, and providing more than seven hundred content area connections.