elementary school libraries

Provides media specialists with strategies for teaching primary students how to use the library.

"Transform your library into a 'think tank' by helping teachers create an active learning environment in which students question, investigate, synthesize, conclude, and present information based on Common Core standards"--Provided by publisher.

Contains literacy-themed programming ideas for elementary school librarians, and includes a variety of related activities.

A guide to storytelling with retellings of traditional folktales and suggestions for other tales to tell.

A teacher-librarian's guide to transforming the library into a center of learning, providing lesson plans, reading motivation strategies, suggestions for using technology effectively, and ideas for keeping students focused and on-task.

Provides descriptions of more than 850 books, arranged into twenty-four general topics, that can be used for background research, unit study, or pleasure reading by students in preschool through grade six.

Contains six literature-based, cross-curricular units with reproducible lesson plans and activities covering topics including rocks and soil, natural resources, water, weather, habitats and biomes, and the night sky.