Staffordville School

LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

21 Lyons Road
P.O. Box 216
Staffordville, Connecticut 06077
2008 Summer Reading
Summer Reading Helpful Links
Houghton Mifflin’s Website for Children
 http://www.bookadventure.com
Great Early Elementary Reads
 Booklist-ALA's  Great Early  Elementary Reads
Grade 1

 Grade 1 Reading List from Education World
Kindergarten
 Kindergarten Reading List from Education World
Catch the Reading Bug @ your Library

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Patricia Post, Library Paraprofessional


Mission | News | Award Winning Books | Links


The Staffordville Elementary School Library serves approximately 184 pre-k to first students from the Staffordville Elementary School. The library has approximately 3800 holdings consisting of books, videos, CD-ROMs, and periodicals. The mission of the library is to meet the informational, educational, and recreational needs of the students from the Staffordville Elementary School. The goal of the library program is to develop lifelong learners by using technology, promoting resource-based learning, developing information literacy skills, and fostering a love of reading.  The primary focus of the library's collection is to provide the most current resources to complement the curriculum.


Ongoing Library Activities

*Reading to the Students

*Teaching Information Literacy Skills

*Reading Incentive Programs
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2008 Randolph Caledecott Medal Winner

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick

From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an awakening Paris in 1931, this tale casts a new light on the picture book form. Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of more than 500 pages, the suspenseful text and wordless double-page spreads narrate the tale in turns. Neither words nor pictures alone tell this story, which is filled with cinematic intrigue. Black & white pencil illustrations evoke the flickering images of the silent films to which the book pays homage.
from ALA.org

2008 Honor Books

Henry's Freedom Box:
A True Story from the Underground Railroad
illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine

First the Egg
written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

The Wall:
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
written and illustrated by Peter Sís

Knuffle Bunny Too:
A Case of Mistaken Identity
written and illustrated Mo Willems


2008 Coretta Scott King Award

2008 Illustrator Award

Ashley Bryan

Let it Shine
written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
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HELPFUL LINKS

Copyright for Teachers
 http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Copyright for Kids
http://www.copyrightkids.org/

NEW*** Grolier Online ***NEW

 Grolier Online provides students with information from the New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia Americana. Students may access Grolier Online from any Internet site in the school district.  In addition, they can access Grolier from home.  If this is your first time using Grolier from home, please click here to obtain your password. 

THE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WEB GUIDE

This Internet site provides information on books for children and young adults. 

ENCHANTED LEARNING

This is an Internet site that covers a wide range of subject areas: Anatomy, Birds, Explorers, Flags, Oceans, Plants, etc. Many different resources are available at this site, including facts, figures, activities, worksheets, etc.

ERIC CARLE

This is a link to children's author and illustrator Eric Carle. 

ICONN

ICONN is the Connecticut Digital Library.The Connecticut Digital Library provides free access from school, home, and public library to numerous databases. Info Trac Kids Edition is applicable to K-6 students.

INTERNET LIBRARY YOUTH DIVISION

This Internet site is a guide to resources on the Internet for children. Some of the many resources include dictionaries, encyclopedias, comic strips, puzzles, optical illusions, and fun stuff. This site is arranged by the Dewey Decimal System.

Tomie De Paola

This  is the official Tomie DePaola web site.

JAN BRETT

This is the homepage of Jan Brett, popular children's author and illustrator. 

STAFFORD LIBRARY

This is the HOMEPAGE for the town's public library. The location of the new 17,500 square foot library is 10 Levinthal Run.

THINK QUEST LIBRARY OF ENTRIES

This Internet site was created by the students at Nettleton Intermediate Center, fifth and sixth graders. The title of the web site is "Do We" Really Know Dewey? The site provides information on the Dewey Decimal System, Melvil Dewey, word searches, and much more.
last updated 8/20/08 by Linda Callahan, Library Media Specialist
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