It’s Elementary!

Resources and More forK-6

Let’s start with low (or no) tech

• Booktalks

• Displays

• Read alouds

• Programs

Booktalks

Displays

PoetryNovels in verse

Excellence in Poetry for Children winners

Local poets

Books about music and musicians

Ladder for poetry

Graphic Novels

GN ladder

NF tie in to topic

Check out a GN for a sibling (younger or older)

Anime and Manga

Dealing with Issues

Autism

Eating disorders

Learning differences

Language differences

So many possibilities

• Freaky Friday story

• Intergenerational • Science• Business

espionage• Author study

Simple tech-niques

• Vine for new acquisitions

• Running presentations on genres, acquisitions, staff picks

• Sound clouds, shelf-talkers

#weneeddiversebooks

Read Alouds

What to Read?

• Poetry• Short story• Picture book• Anything• Everything• Don’t forget the NF• Let kids pick

Getting tech-nical

• Presence on social media

• Web site

• You Tube

#IMWAYR

Other Twitter Resources

• #bookaday• #titletalk• #elemchat• #worldbookday• #kidlit• #nerdybookclub

People to Follow (epicenter)

• @mrschureads• @100scopenotes• @fuseeight• @colbysharp• @cynleitichsmith

Mr Schu

Travis Jonkers

Betsy Bird

Colby Sharp

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Web Sites and Blogs

• Nerdy Book Club• YALSA• ALSC• Colby Sharp, John Schu, Travis

Jonkers, Liz Burns

You Tube

• Book trailers for picture books• Philip Nel on Metafiction• Children’s authors• Author interviews

FINALLY, SOME NEW BOOKS

What If?

Author “Study”

GN Fun for Younger Readers

GN Series

Create your own?

Variants

Audio Alert

Textless Reading

New and Notable

Music

Oldies but Great-ies

Bottom Line?

• Read• Read some more• Read even more• Read• Read• Read• You get the drift…