Competency #9 Internet

Competency #9 Internet

I searched Dogpile to find information about online book clubs for children. I discovered a public library site where students can discuss what they have been reading. Lists of books are also available as well as new featured selections.

Multimedia

Competency #8 Multimedia

This is not a very exciting graph but I included it because during my teaching career I have had parents want to know how to gage the level of the book their child is reading. In keeping with my topic of "Connecting Kids to Books" I thought that the Fry Readability Chart/Graph would be a help.

Competency #7 Social Networking

You can view a crazy picture of me at
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.create&editor=false
or better yet, since there really isn't much there, here is the picture.

S1 + S2 + S3 fluency retrieved 6 hits. The S1 serach for reading aloud produced the Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease which has relevant information and titles of books. S1 + S2 produced an interesting hit, Classics to Read Out Loud to Your Children by William R. Russell. When all the terms were combined there were several relevant hits out of the 6 retrieved.

Competency # 6 Specific Facet First, contin...

S2 was reading comprehension and it retrieved 202 hits some of which were very relevant.

Competency # 6 Specific Facet First, contin...

Competency # 6 Specific Facet First

The pre-school students on our campus are coming to us with fewer skills. Parents are busy working and students are missing out on the rhymes and fairy tales that used to be a standard part of growing up. I believe that chilren need to hear good reading modeled to them so I decided to see if there was anything to support my statements. I started with S1 reading aloud and retrieved 2, 143 results.

Competency # 6 Successive Fractions cont.....

To narrow even further I decided to look for a list or lists of graphic novels to feature on my blog sight so I added S3 list and received one relevant hit.

Competency # 6 Successive Fractions cont.....

Narrowing my search I choose reading S2.

Competency # 6 Successive Fractions

Graphic novels seem to be very popular with boys and the older elementary students where I work. I decided to seek a list of graphic novels for my blog. I decided the broadest topic would be graphic novels so I began with S1 graphic novels. I retrieved 1362 results.

Competency # 6 Citation Pearl Growing Search cont...

I chose to follow the descriptor for student interest and I retrieved an article about book clubs based on the popularity of the Oprah book club, except for children.

Competency # 6 Citation Pearl Growing Search cont...

From S1 + S2 + S3 I decided to access the article More Reading Connections: Bringing Parents, Teacher, and Librarians Together by Elizabeth Knowles and Martha Smith. From this article I found descriptors of book clubs, student interests

Competency # 6 Citation Pearl Growing Search cont...

S3 was clubs.

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S2 was book lists.

Competency # 6 Citation Pearl Growing Search

Book clubs seem to be very a very hot item today. There are book clubs for just boys, just girls, mixed or even themed clubs. I thought I would like to gather some information regarding book clubs for children. Teachers, parents, and librarians might find this of interest, especially if they were wanting to create a book club for students. I started the search with reading interests and received 2,237 hits.

Competency # 6 Building Block Search, cont....

S3 was reading
S1 + S2 + S3 =4 hits
Three of the articles were relevant to my search for poetry for adolescents. I tried to search for by addeding boys and did not retrieve any results so I changed to reading. This information would still be useful

Competency # 6 Building Block Search, cont....

S2 was adolescents =26 hits
This addition gave me articles that featured the best poetry for a specific year.

Competency # 6 Building Block Search

Building Block Search in Lib Lit

Following the design of my blog to connect kids to
books, I wanted to find poetry that was of interest to
adolescents and boys.
S1 - poetry =1455 hits

Competency # 5 Tagging

www.librarything.com

Jim Trelease is the author of the Read Aloud Handbook. This handbook is primarily for adults. I included it in the blog because it gives tips for reading as well as the importance of reading aloud to children. There are suggested titles. If we are to connect kids to books then we as adults need a few tips on how to get kids interested. Why not connect to your child through a read aloud experience? It is a great beginning!

Tags from LibraryThing are as follows:
Book lists book recommendations Books books about books books and reading Childhood Children children's children's book summaries Children's books children's literature education Family fumcn home homeschool Language Arts learning literacy literature nf non-fiction Oral reading Own owned parent resource Parenting power of read aloud professional Read read aloud Reading reading aloud Reference school signed teaching Trelease unread

I included the recommendations from LibraryThing so that there would be more titles to available.
LibraryThing recommendations

How to get your child to love reading by Esmé Raji Codell
Miss Rumphius : story and pictures by Barbara Cooney
Books children love : a guide to the best children's literature by Elizabeth Wilson
Honey for a child's heart : the imaginative use of books in family life by Mrs. Gladys Hunt
Classics to read aloud to your children by William F. Russell
Make way for ducklings by Robert McCloskey
The well-trained mind : a guide to classical education at home by S. Wise Bauer
The New York times parent's guide to the best books for children by Eden Ross Lipson
Reading for the love of it : best books for young readers by Michele Landsberg
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Competency #4 RSS Feeds

I selected this feed because it offers information regarding books for children. Parents can also preview the titles and view different links associated with the featured titles. Parents as well as students are always looking for books and this feed will serve as another source of information.

# 3 Competency

Please get acquainted with Bertie the Frog and Natasha at Storynory.com. This delightful site presents a new audio story each week which is read by Natasha. There are 75 children's stories, some of which are classic fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, and the Ginger Bread Man. Listen as Natasha tells the story of how Prince Bertie becomes a frog. I selected this podcast because it has classic children's fairy tales and the reader has a wonderful English accent that will capture your attention. I did a Google search for children's literature podcasts.

# 2 Competency

Jen Robinson's Book Page
http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/

Among the topics: what questions to ask when children have trouble understanding what they're reading; how to get children to understand reading homework; how to motivate them to read; and recommended books for parents and children.
"This site is for anyone who has an interest in raising children who love books. It is for librarians and teachers, and parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents. And it is for people like me, who believe that the world will be a better place if more children grow up with the opportunity to love books." Jen Robinson

Check out the links and reviews!

Introduction

This blog has been created for Dr. Hilbun's 5013.22 Information Storage and Retrieval class. My purpose is to design a blog that I can use as a tool for an online children's book club, or discussion group. My library type of interest is the elementary school library.