Kansas Students A+chieve

Because of Great School LIbraries!

 

April 2006        


In this issue:




April Celebrations


AASL Hotlinks [Chicago].  Celebrate School Library Media Month at your school

            

Many school library media programs celebrate the month of April as School Library Media Month in conjunction with,

and sharing the same theme as, National Library Week.  This year's theme is Change your world @ your library(r).


Get National Library Week resources at

http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/nlw/NLW.htm


Learn more about School Library Media Month at

http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmmonth.html


Access all of AASL's advocacy resources from

http://www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=aasladvocacy


Read about School Library Media Campaign @ your library at

http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/schoollibrary/schoollibrary.htm


Read the ALA resolution "School Libraries and Librarians

are Critical to Educational Success" at

http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslissues/aasladvocacy/alaresolution.htm


Get the AASL Advocacy Toolkit at

http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/toolkits/aasladvocacy.htm


Drop Everything and Read Day


AASL Hotlinks [Chicago].  National D.E.A.R. Day is a special reading celebration to remind

and encourage families to make reading together on a daily basis a family priority. 


D.E.A.R. is a collaborative effort among National Education Association (NEA); National

Parent Teacher Association (PTA); HarperCollins Children's Books; Association for Library

Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA; and Reading Rockets. 


The National D.E.A.R. Day partners are marking the 90th birthday of beloved author Beverly

Cleary as the official event date, April 12th. Ramona Quimby is the program's2006 spokesperson. 


Find out more at:  http://www.dropeverythingandread.com

April is National Poetry Month


In April 2006, the Academy of American Poets will launch the first-ever Poetry Read-a-Thon.

Geared to middle school students (grades 5-8), the Read-a-Thon's goals are to celebrate the reading

of poems and writing poems. In addition to emphasizing the pleasure and fun of reading poetry,

the Read-a-Thon will facilitate the students'  development of writing and comprehension skills.


Visit the Online Poetry Classroom to find a wealth of resources, including Teacher Forums

where teachers can share ideas and seek help from colleagues; Pedagogical & Critical Essays

about poetry; extensive links to relevant websites; Curriculum Units & Lesson Plans;

biographies of hundreds of poets; and nearly two-thousand poems.


Get the details at  http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/6


Other Poetry Month resources:


  National Poetry Foundation

  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/  


  PBS poetry page

  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/poetry


  Ideas from read. write. think.

  http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=478


  12 famous American Poets, a class research project

  http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/poet.htm 


  Lesson plans and activities from Education World

  http://www.education-world.com/a_special/poetrymonth.shtml


  Poetry Teacher website

  http://www.poetryteachers.com


  Poetry Month resources from Scholastic

  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/poetry.htm


      



Some top reasons to work with your faculty (#5):

  • Promotes reading for learning, for pleasure, and for life.
  • Increases reading scores on national and state assessments.
  • Independent use of the library is established.

Remember:  It's not what you do, it's the attitude with which you do it !!