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Exploring Multimedia Literacy Skills with Animals of the Amazon Rainforest
As a school librarian, I know that it makes sense to teach multimedia literacy skills collaboratively with the classroom teacher rather than in isolation. So I have been very lucky to collaborate with...
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Mannequins in the Library
For the last two months, “Mannequin Challenges” have been trending on social media — videos of people standing completely motionless, posing as mannequins in various positions for about a minute as the...
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Exploring Creative Commons: A Brief Introduction
A major part of my curriculum is teaching my K-8 grades students about digital citizenship. Students are immersed in lessons about digital citizenship and literacy at different levels of...
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Building Growth Mindset Through Coding
Building intellectual resilience among students is a core task of elementary education. Posing challenging tasks such as basic coding even at the elementary level pays great dividends and fosters a...
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Exploring Kindness: An Author Visit
In March, our 2nd graders delved into the works of children’s book author Maribeth Boelts. We read and discussed three of her books, Those Shoes, A Bike Like Sergio’s, and Happy Like Soccer. The books...
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Beginning Research with Kindergarten: All About Penguins
Every year, my Kindergarten students participate in a very basic, whole-class research project. By listening to nonfiction texts read aloud and watching videos, students extract information to answer...
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International Dot Day: On the Importance of Creative Learning
For the 5th year in a row, our students in grades K-5 celebrated International Dot Day. Originally launched by a teacher in Iowa when he introduced Peter H. Reynolds’ book, The Dot, this event is now...
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Creating Readers: The Power of Graphic Novels
Reading has always been a large and very positive part of my life. I am a reader and my reading life was formed during my early childhood living in a home surrounded by books. My parents are avid...
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Integrating Reading Responses and Coding
For the 4th year in a row, my elementary school students participated in the annual national Hour of Code activities launched during Computer Science Education Week back in December 2013. While I’ve...
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I love publishing ebooks with my students. My Kindergarten class just finished collaborating on an Alphabet Sounds Book where each page is dedicated to a letter of the alphabet. This idea was inspired...
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