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3rd Grade Global Study Project: Socializing Students to Information Overload
One modern classroom skill is global awareness. Our third graders have been taking advantage of many “Skypportunities” across the globe over the last few months. So when considering a research project...
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Visualizing Shel Silverstein
It’s National Poetry Month–and since I love Shel Silverstein’s work (and we have a good number of his books in the library), I did a mini poetry session with 3rd grade in the library last week. As an...
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Acrostic Poetry and PicCollage
In 3rd grade, we continued our celebration of National Poetry Month. Students wrote acrostic poems and created an artifact for their blogfolios. An acrostic poem uses the letters of a word or name to...
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Book Tasting
One challenge I face as a school librarian is to make sure my students are exposed to a wide variety of books. So when I read Andy Plemmons’ post about book tasting (who was inspired by Buffy...
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Enhancing Literacy With Digital Creativity
My 3rd and 4th grade students embarked on a new endeavor–creating book trailers. I had never created trailers before, so I learned alongside my students. Since I meet each class only once weekly for 40...
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World Traveling with the Green Screen App
The last few weeks of the school year, my 3rd grade class researched information about a country of their choice. While engaged in the research process, they explored a variety of technology resources...
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I Like To Read Because…
Last week, I showed my 3rd-grade students Scholastic’s video, Why I Read, a recording of kids sharing their answers. Since my students were eager to share their own responses, we decided to create a...
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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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