Read Across America is coming up, and like many librarians, I am working on programming.
If you are new to my blog- a little background about my school.
I am a middle school librarian for a campus that is a hybrid model. We have grades 6th-8th, about 900 students, one-to-one devices, and about 400 on-campus face to face.
Next week is not only Read Across America- but it is also North Texas Teen Book Festival which is a FREE event that is virtual. So, what better way to celebrate Read Across America than adding in North Texas Teen Book Festival.
Each day we have a different hashtag and prompt. I will be posting this on our Library Canvas page with a link for students to fill out a Google Form. Do you want your own copy-click this link and this will force copy
Currently, on Mondays and Fridays, I already have time on Zoom from 8am-8:15am where I read. Mondays-we are reading a book and Fridays I do #FirstChapterFridays My First Chapter Fridays are currently books that are on the North Texas Teen Book Festival Link. This has been a plus of being hybrid and using Zoom. Often times I would only see ELAR classes, but with Zoom- ALL classes are able to hop on. I am working with my amazing DEAN April Richmond who always helps me with my ideas.
Next week we will be sharing a book each morning via Zoom from 8:00am-8:15am. I send calendar invites to teachers, but students also have the ability to login on their own (we have 2 people monitoring students as they come in) The book and information also get posted into the Library Canvas classroom daily. Despite what middle schoolers think- they do love a picture book (and picture books are AMAZING!)
The thing I am MOST excited about sharing is- Read Across America-North Texas Teen Book Festival. Jillian Heise posted this AMAZING blog about actually Reading Across America. Although this is amazing, I needed something more middle school. With the help of Donald Cummings and Hope Krum we created a Read Across America with the stories from the places that happen in the books from authors with the North Texas Teen Book Festival.
Each book that is shared is linked to information from Teachingbooks.net We also linked to the panel that that author will be presenting. This will be a changing document (thank goodness for Google!)
You can find the presentation here (know that we are still adding to it) Thank you Jillian for the GREAT idea!
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