Ah, summer—the season when school librarians take a well-earned break, but our enthusiasm for education and capturing young people’s attention never wavers. Librarians cannot always allow learners access to the school library during the summer. Personally, I use the summer… Read More ›
Summer Reading
MAME Summer Book Club: The Gift of Story by John Schu
Summer is a great time to catch up on reading. So when the Michigan Association of Media in Education (MAME) shared they were hosting a virtual summer book club I was all in! The Book The title that was chosen… Read More ›
Summer Reading Decisions
How do you decide what to buy, watch, or read? How do you choose what to eat or where to travel? Do you rely on crowdsourced reviews on popular sites, or the streaming algorithm? Do you use specific reviews and… Read More ›
Read & Relax: 5 YA Books To Read This Summer
We all need to take time for self care during the summer months. Time to recharge, regroup, and center before the next school year begins. All of us love books and love to read. That was probably the motivating factor… Read More ›
Read & Relax: Summer Reading Challenge
As the school year draws to a close, keep kids in the mindset of reading with a summer reading challenge. Summer challenges are an outstanding way to motivate students to keep reading over the summer. They have tasks to complete… Read More ›
Get Ready for Summer!
It’s that magical time of year. Flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and Summer Reading planning is in full swing! This is the time of year when I get to work most closely with my school librarian colleagues. I… Read More ›
Build Summer Reading Joy: Faculty Book Recommendations!
Summer Reading Inspiration In the spring of 2016, I received an e-mail from a friend and English teacher in my building. She invited the entire faculty to contribute to a slideshow she was creating. She encouraged every faculty member to… Read More ›
Virtual Summer Reading Challenge
Each year to promote students to read over summer break I create a Summer Reading Challenge board. The summer slide is real, and even with intermediate students they can lose a lot of what they gained as a reader over… Read More ›
5 Tips to Organize Your Summer Reading
As we close down our school libraries and think ahead to the next school year, all of us are thinking about our summer reading list. What will we bring home to read? What should we read first? How can we… Read More ›
Summer Reading
As a teacher and a parent, I have seen many different versions of summer reading. I remember helping my three children fill out various reading logs for their school and then doing something completely different for the public library. If… Read More ›