Author: Dorothy Frechette

November 2009

What's in a name? Library media specialists are also teachers. As teacher librarians we teach the information process, understand the uses of technology, select and use a wide variety of materials, and work in partnership with classroom teachers using books, information and technology.

Have you checked out
Rhode Island's Statewide Reference Resource Center ??
...your source for answers and a whole lot more -
www.askri.org
Let’s take a peek at
Based on World Book's award-winning Student Discovery Encyclopedia, World Book Kids is designed to give younger students a rewarding online learning experience. It includes thousands of easy-to-read articles, engaging images and illustrations, interactive games and activities, and teacher resources, such as Make It! Think It! Be It!
Each activity is available in a teacher's version, with discussion questions and a evaluation matrix.
World Book Student features Research Tools
Compile, create, and save your research projects
Citation Builder
How to Do Research
My
Research
Timelines

Plus
primary resources online !
Today in History
Teaching with documents !

Including curriculum correlations, read aloud, and text in 13 languages !

Check out World Book Online, and then complete our online survey at www.rilink.org/WB/survey.htm.

The school library media center - where information is available in a wide variety of formats, both print and electronic; where materials and activities are coordinated with classroom assignments; and where students learn information skills that will prepare them to live and work in the 21st century.

And more ...
World Book Digital Libraries offer online, interactive complements to World Book’s most popular print reference sets. Each library features all the print content as well as videos and animations, interactive activities, curriculum correlations, and links to encyclopedia content.
Encyclopedias in Spanish !
For elementary school students ...
Offers differentiated instruction, life skills, research tools, multi-media, and interactive video.

Join us on December 10 from 3:45-5:45 at the East Bay Educational Collaborative for a session with David Almeida, one of the authors. Register online at www.rilink.org/events.htm

World Book’s Dramatic Learning expands proven approaches to building reading fluency and content comprehension. By turning texts into plays, skits, and monologues and providing teaching tools to apply these materials in the classroom, Dramatic Learning can help students become more fluent readers, understand core concepts, and internalize content.
The written script is only the beginning. The worksheets and other materials developed around the story of the play will spark the students' learning. Accompanying lesson plans provide the information you need to set objectives, select materials, and meet achievement standards. Online tools help you respond to the varying learning modes of your students, ensuring that nobody falls through the cracks .

Dramatic Learning helps students
• Improve reading fluency and sight-word recognition
• Develop comprehension skills for ESL/ELL and challenged readers
• Promote task engagement, independent learning and constructive movement
• Manage behavior and socialization
• Improve test scores through creative cross-curricular, standards-based instruction

Check out the online video tutorial at http://www.worldbookonline.com/dramaticlearning/tutorial

RILINK is a cooperative effort by Rhode Island school libraries to share their resources through an interactive, web-based catalog of library materials. RILINK serves over 34% of Rhode Island public school students, providing access to more than 800,000 books and other materials in member libraries.

Teacher Librarian is published by the
Rhode Island Library Information Network for Kids