Our students enjoy graphic novels and comics. They’re fun to read. They’re also excellent practice for inference skills that all readers need to comprehend text. In fact, they rely even more on inference than regular prose because readers have to take the visual cues from the illustrations and the text cues from the speech bubbles [...]
Entries Tagged as 'reading'
New and Improved Early Reader Section
March 22, 2013 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, Elementary Topics
Please come to the library to see our new and improved Early Reader collection. These are books that are “just right” to build confidence in our younger readers. They feature large fonts, simple language structures and lots of illustrations to help understand the text. We had not had much circulation of these early readers. Our [...]
Happy 2013! Spend It Reading!
January 9, 2013 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
Welcome back to everyone. We hope you had relaxing holidays and that you are now eager to start working on a shiny new year. Do you write New Year Resolutions? Here’s a link to a few ideas we presented last year. It’s not too late to set goals for yourself. How about you set a [...]
Tags: 2012-2013·books·challenges·reading
Grade 7 Readers Recommend
November 26, 2012 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
Stop by the library this week to see recommendations by grade 7 students on the library’s big screen display. These students read books from our Panda shortlists for Middle Readers and Older Readers, and posted reviews for those on our library OPAC. Note that many books do not have reviews. To find reviews for the [...]
Celebrate International School Library Week at IST
October 15, 2012 · 5 Comments · 2012-2013, General Topics
Friday, 19 October – Character Dress Up Day Dress up on Friday as a character from a favorite book. Costumes don’t have to be fancy. Easy ideas for character costumes coming soon. We will give 200RMB to purchase books for the classroom library to the classes with the highest participation in the Character Dress Up [...]
Who Came to the Elementary Open House? Readers Came!
August 30, 2012 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, Elementary Topics
We were delighted to see so many students showing their parents their favorite library spaces and books. Here’s a sampling of some of the reading families who stopped by the library.
Ready for the 2012 School Year?
August 1, 2012 · 2 Comments · 2012-2013, General Topics
We hope you’re enjoying your summer holidays and that you are starting to think of the new school year. Most importantly, we hope that you have been doing a lot of reading this summer. Remember that if you fill out 10 books on the Reading Dragons bookmarks, you can cash those in for 50RMB in [...]
Want e-Books for Summer Reading?
May 29, 2012 · Comments Off · 2011-2012, Elementary Topics, General Topics
You’ll find lots of online reading options through our library OPAC. TumbleBooks and TumbleReadables – new ebook collection in June 2012 To access our newest eBook collection, you will need to log in to the library OPAC. Use your own personal account credentials or the quick login (included on our bookmarks and in the student [...]
Classics to Read with your Ears on Lit2Go!
May 7, 2012 · Comments Off · 2011-2012, General Topics
Lit2Go is a website created and maintained by the University of South Florida. It holds audiobooks on mp3 files that are available for download from the site or through iTunes U. They have recently redesigned their site and it is a pleasure to browse the many different titles available. Titles include many great classics of [...]
Tags: reading
Art and Poetry of Douglas Florian
April 9, 2012 · 2 Comments · 2011-2012, General Topics
I already knew I liked the poet Douglas Florian, but after reading every one of his books in our library collection for the 8-1-1 Challenge, I like his work even more. Douglas Florian is a poet and an artist. Amazon lists 48 titles by him. Of these we have 18 and after this week, it [...]
Tags: 811challenge2012·poetry·reading
