SLO 9 (School Library Only)
The student promotes reading for learning, personal growth, and enjoyment.
As a youth services programmer at Cornelius Public Library, each month, I engage in 6 to 7 outreaches at both local daycares and at two local elementary schools with the kindergarten and first grade classes. My public library outreach is a strong example of modeling personal enjoyment of reading as I try to pick books that I enjoy and that I think the kids will find interesting (funny plot, interesting characters, related to the holidays, etc.). I actively read these stories to the kids which means asking them lots of questions so they can make personal connections and draw inferences and predictions from the text while also reading in an animated voice with different voices for each character. Practicing these active reading skills while reading aloud helps kids develop a love of and an interest in lifelong reading. Additionally, I host a monthly preteen book club (grades 4th-6th) when I lead the children in a short discussion of that month’s book and have them engage in fun literacy activities, including writing, art, or science, as a way of promoting leisure reading and encouraging creative expression. I also host a monthly Let off some S.T.E.A.M. program which incorporates hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math activities with a story for K-5th graders to explore. Finally, throughout the year, the other youth services programmer and myself host special storytimes to promote favorite children’s book characters, such as a special Dr. Seuss event for Read Across America Day and a special Pete the Cat event for our library’s 16th birthday. These types of events are open to kids and their families and include a story, literacy activity, and games and a chance for the kids to check out or win books by that author.
Artifact 1 - pictures of programs
Artifact 1 - pictures of programs
In LIS 617, I videoed myself doing a booktalk where I tried to entice a group of 5th graders to read three different historical disaster books for personal enjoyment. The three books I book talked included The Titanic: an Interactive History Adventure by Bob Temple (a choose your own adventure story), I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster by Lauren Tarshis (part of the popular I-Survived series), and Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes about a fifth grade girl whose life is turned upside down when she realizes her father was in the World Trade Towers when they collapsed. Two books are fiction and one is non-fiction.
I recorded myself using Voicethread and began the presentation with a slide that would generate a class discussion about historical man-made disasters. The books were discussed in chronological order and the presentation was enhanced by powerpoint slides of each of the three disasters discussed (Titanic, Hindenburg, and World Trade Towers). Each book was talked using a different approach - scene driven, plot driven, and finally character driven. My favorite was the character driven approach because it allowed me to really get in the mind of the main character (who also happened to be in 5th grade) so it was easier to relate to my audience while I was talking. I have never actually done book talks in a public or school library setting, but it’s my goal to do so should I end up in a school library. It’s a great way to promote books that I think the kids would love to read and my passion and enthusiasm for them comes through that way. Booktalks are also great ways to promote less popular nonfiction titles, especially when trying to promote learning or connect books to curriculum materials within the school library.
Artifact 2 - Booktalk (listen to the Voicethread here)
I recorded myself using Voicethread and began the presentation with a slide that would generate a class discussion about historical man-made disasters. The books were discussed in chronological order and the presentation was enhanced by powerpoint slides of each of the three disasters discussed (Titanic, Hindenburg, and World Trade Towers). Each book was talked using a different approach - scene driven, plot driven, and finally character driven. My favorite was the character driven approach because it allowed me to really get in the mind of the main character (who also happened to be in 5th grade) so it was easier to relate to my audience while I was talking. I have never actually done book talks in a public or school library setting, but it’s my goal to do so should I end up in a school library. It’s a great way to promote books that I think the kids would love to read and my passion and enthusiasm for them comes through that way. Booktalks are also great ways to promote less popular nonfiction titles, especially when trying to promote learning or connect books to curriculum materials within the school library.
Artifact 2 - Booktalk (listen to the Voicethread here)
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