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This comprehensive guidebook is useful for all library media specialists who are seeking national board certification. The book provides a blend of informational resources and personal experiences to provide you with practical approaches to the process of preparing and applying for national board certification in library media. From prospective candidates to administrators, this book appeals to all audiences interested in the national board certification process.

This professional booktalking tool for the busy middle and junior high school library media specialist includes booktalks that can be used to support the curriculum, encourage student leisure reading, and provide ideas for educator-media specialist collaboration. Each entry includes an annotation, a booktalk, and a curriculum connection activity as well as a list of five similar titles. Types of books included in this volume are fiction, short story collections, poetry collections, informational books, and biographies.

This book is designed to foster independent study, research, writing, and oral presentation skills in students in grades four through six. The lessons, which integrate several content areas, can be used for enrichment or extension in the classroom or as a homework assignment. The forty lessons, four for each of ten months, September through June, are connected to a famous person or event associated with that month. An index indicates the content areas and skills taught in each lesson.

- Utilize the unique style of picture books to create instructionally sound, standards-based lessons- Improve students' writing and literacy skills in grades 5-9- Fun and effective strategies teach the basic literary elements of character, point of view, setting, plot, style, and theme, and the activities are aligned with NCTE standards

Build a space colony, become a time traveler, or be elected president! The possibilities are endless when your students are ready for the Information Age. Adapt and use these teaching units, based on the work of Howard Gardner, Heidi Hays-Jacobs, and Grant Wiggins, to develop instructionally sound lessons for students.

Inspire the next Emily Dickinson! These workshops will help younger students develop their passion for the written word and expand their writing ability. Meant for use throughout the entire school year, the workshops steadily become more thought-provoking as students are challenged to increase their skills.Grades 2-5