middle school libraries

Lessons that integrate the classroom curriculum and library skills in teaching students to use CD-ROMS, videodiscs, and computer networks.

Provides information on how to plan and implement a variety of different reading competitions for middle school students; and includes a list of related websites, techniques for encouraging participation, and advice on recognition, publicity, and other topics.

Contains lesson plans for teaching library skills to grades sixth through twelfth with worksheets and activities.

Presents fifteen thirty- to forty-five-minute library lessons for fourth through eighth graders based on books featuring magic, including "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and provides evaluation tips and extension activity ideas.

A collection of fifty standards-based technology projects for library media specialists and teachers.

Contains fifteen lessons designed to improve the library, research, and literature skills of students in fourth through eighth grade, created for use in a library setting, each including visuals, activity sheets, an evaluation, and extension.

Profiles fifty novels for grades 4-8 that present character traits worth emulating. Each profile discusses a novel's awards, characters, setting, plot, and vocabulary; presents discussion questions and project ideas; and provides information about the author, as well as comments from the author on the novel.

An annotated booklist of recently published fiction and nonfiction for middle school and junior high students, arranged alphabetically by author under broad topical categories.

Presents information for library media specialists on planning, implementing, and evaluating curriculum-based library media center programs in schools, and includes sample outlines, program examples, and reproducible forms.

Offers middle school librarians and teachers practical suggestions for reviving students' enthusiasm for reading, with ideas for workshops, activities, and literacy programs.