UnCommon Core -- Youth Services Forum 2014 –Slides

For a TERRIFIC post  about using picture book biographies as mentor texts at any grade level, check out: http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com/2014/02/heroes-of-history.html




Carol Simon Levin is a Youth Services Librarian at the Bridgewater Branch of the Somerset County Library.  She is a passionate fan of great non-fiction and biography, particularly those titles that spark the imagination of young readers.

Dr. Ellen Pozzi is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the School Library Media Program at William Paterson University. She has been on the Garden State Children Books Awards committee for over a decade, and is a past president of the Children’s Services Section. Ellen enjoys reading nonfiction books for readers of all ages.

A complete copy of this presentation, book & resource lists  can be found here:
http://guides.wpunj.edu/content.php?pid=631942&sid=5228723

Nonfiction Blogs – courtesy of Ellen Pozzi:
•The Uncommon Core
•Nonfiction Monday
•The Nonfiction Detectives
•Great Common Core Nonfiction for YAs
•INK Nonfiction Minute
•The Classroom Bookshelf
•Common Core Exemplar Texts

AASL has two GREAT resources:

1. http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/toolkits/CCSSActionToolkit_2014.pdf Common Core State Standards Action Toolkit for Public Librarians (11 pg. doc)
   
2. http://www.ala.org/aasl/ecollab/ccss101 The Common Core and the Public Librarian: Reaching Patrons and Students (1 hr. Webinar)

Here's the link to the Prezi Ellen and Arlen Kimmelman did at NJLA 2014. It's  "public" and "reusable"  http://prezi.com/ur5gah-zj8ao/teaming-up-to-support-common-core/

In the Prezi, slide  #23 lists what public librarians already do to support Common Core:

• award winning titles
• connections to non-fiction audiobooks
• story times & book clubs
• highlighting primary sources
• navigating the shelves
• topic displays
• lists of matching fiction to nonfiction

That is also the type of information that is in the AASL Toolkit mentioned above.

Here is the link to our bibliography for the presentation:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12C2agjp1l0leBStZsnO5Tn1cR8F2dyyNAAD2Tnn3Vco/edit?usp=sharing

--Mrs. Arlen Kimmelman, Librarian

National Board Certified Teacher

President-Elect, New Jersey Association of School Librarians

Clearview Regional High School, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062

http://clearviewregional.edu/docs/hs/libra/HomePage/Index.html

"Saying you don't need a Librarian because you have the Internet is like saying you don't need a Math Teacher because you have a calculator."  ~Don Reynolds, TLA

Great reviews of "un-common" science picture books: http://www.smartbooksforsmartkids.com/20-best-science-books-children-2014/  (site has great reviews & author interviews in general)

Another good resource:

Picturing the World: Informational Picture Books for Children 

by Kathleen T. Isaacs