Purpose: Allow teachers an opportunity to borrow professional books to strengthen teaching practices and improve student learning.
Directions: 1. Search the Lending Library by clicking on a category tab above. 2. Choose the book(s) you would like to borrow. 3. Click on the "Lending Form" link at the top of the page, fill out the information and submit. 4. Your book will be sent to you within a few days through the Interdepartment Mail or placed in your school mailbox. 5. Please return the book via Interdepartment Mail to Cassie Schneider at the Curriculum Office.
How long do I keep the book? Please return the book on or before two weeks from when you received the book. If you would like to keep the book longer, email Cassie Schneider. If no one is on the waiting list, you may keep the book for an additional week.
Donating Books If you would like to donate a professional book to the lending library for others to use, send it to Cassie Schneider at the Curriculum Office through Interdepartment Mail. The book will then be reviewed and if deemed fit for our site, will be added shortly.
Featured: Book of the Month
Strategies That Work, Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding:
A child may be a great decoder, but that's only one step toward becoming a fluent reader. Reading implies thinking and understanding, and teachers can help children develop strategies for comprehension. Children need to know how to make connections and ask questions, how to visualize and infer, how to extract important ideas and to synthesize information if they are to become fluent readers. Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis show how teachers can model these strategies by thinking aloud and coding the text, lifting text onto the overhead and reasoning through t in class discussions, and bringing in their own books to model how adults use these strategies. All the while teachers give students long blocks of time to practice these strategies independently in their own reading.
Author/Company: Harvey and Goudvis Grades: K-8 Book Code: R4