school librarian participation in curriculum planning

Presents strategies for increasing the level of collaboration and achievement in the classroom with cooperation, use of data-based analysis, and integration of new technologies.

Presents a concise guide to implementing a school library media center, and teaches information literacy skills that meet state and national curriculum standards in all subject areas.

Examines the evolving standards for learning in the digital age of the twenty-first century, with more than ninety articles that discuss key themes, ideals for successful school libraries, inquiry, collaboration, assessments, reading, and pedagogical strategies; and includes discussion questions for each chapter.

Presents a comprehensive guide for collaborative teaching in the middle school science classroom, and contains reproducible worksheets, assessment tools, lesson overviews, and library and general science skills.

Offers strategies for increasing reading comprehension in elementary school students.

A principal's guide to creating a library media program that covers instructional leadership, standards, effective practices for integration into the curriculum, roles and responsibilities of media specialists, support, sustainability, and improvements.

Examines the role the school library media specialist plays in assessing student learning, and addresses a variety of issues associated with the practical application of the assessment of student learning in the school library media center.

Presents a guide to aligning school library programs and instructional practice with research on the key concepts of brain-compatibility learning.

An instruction manual designed to help library media specialists understand information literacy and its place in the classroom.

Provides librarians and teachers with resources for activity programs to improve literacy and library skills. Activity programs include friends and family, holidays and traditions, animals seasons, and other topics.