Some interesting FYI:
• One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
Where do YOU fit in with these facts?!?
This week 2 classes celebrate book return parties! Mrs. Tenold's K-Prep & Mrs. Marwardt's Kindergarten! Woo Hoo! Way to go, kids!
READ EVERY DAY!
Mrs. T. Reiter, K-12 Teacher Librarian
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Happy New Year!
Welcome 2012! What a time to start a new resolution - TO READ EVERY DAY! I want to encourage you to read (something) every day. Whether it's the newspaper, a cereal box, your child's school book, your e-book reader, a computer screen, or...even a book! Anything with printed text. Reading every day helps with your vocabulary and fluency. Plus you might just learn something new!
I have been working on weeding and updating the biographies in the online catalog. Did you know that many of Jacobson's biographies are Reading Counts! books?!? [A biography is a nonfiction [factual] story written about a person. An autobiography is a nonfiction story written by the person about him/herself.] The online catalog for both Jacobson and the 7-12 school can be found on the B-K Bronco website, too! Most often, you will find biographies shelved in a special section in the library.
Biographies are arranged by the book subject's last name. So if you wanted a book about Michael Jackson you would look for the call number BIO JAC or for Taylor Swift - BIO SWI. Personalities with one name (Prince William, Squanto, & Raven-Symone) look for the first 3 letters of their main name: BIO WIL, BIO SQU, & BIO RAV. NOTE: Sometimes 'B' or '92' or '921' are used instead of 'BIO' for biographies in the top line of the call number.
A book that contains numerous biographies will have the call number 920 plus the first 3 letters of the author's last name. For example, "Great Hispanic-Americans" by Nicolas Kanellos has the call number 920 KAN.
So, if you ever wanted to know about someone by reading a book about their life, check out a biography!
Happy Reading!
Mrs. Reiter
K-12 Teacher Librarian
I have been working on weeding and updating the biographies in the online catalog. Did you know that many of Jacobson's biographies are Reading Counts! books?!? [A biography is a nonfiction [factual] story written about a person. An autobiography is a nonfiction story written by the person about him/herself.] The online catalog for both Jacobson and the 7-12 school can be found on the B-K Bronco website, too! Most often, you will find biographies shelved in a special section in the library.
Biographies are arranged by the book subject's last name. So if you wanted a book about Michael Jackson you would look for the call number BIO JAC or for Taylor Swift - BIO SWI. Personalities with one name (Prince William, Squanto, & Raven-Symone) look for the first 3 letters of their main name: BIO WIL, BIO SQU, & BIO RAV. NOTE: Sometimes 'B' or '92' or '921' are used instead of 'BIO' for biographies in the top line of the call number.
A book that contains numerous biographies will have the call number 920 plus the first 3 letters of the author's last name. For example, "Great Hispanic-Americans" by Nicolas Kanellos has the call number 920 KAN.
So, if you ever wanted to know about someone by reading a book about their life, check out a biography!
Happy Reading!
Mrs. Reiter
K-12 Teacher Librarian
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