Bibliographies

October 4-10
Bibliographies

I was excited to study bibliographies this week in class after spending last week with my first grade teacher friend. I really enjoyed Children's Books A- Zoo as a resource to find so many amazing picture books for so many topics! This was exactly the resource she needed to answer her questions like " how do I find books about ___, or how do you know books that have cause and effect skills". Before class I told her to check out Google or Read write think but I was very excited to share this reference resource with her after class. In fact I would love to have my own copy of this book! :)

The Best New Media Guide would also be a helpful tool for teachers to find technology resources to enhance lessons. This is much more effective than a Google search!
These experiences and this exploration of resources really impressed upon me the absolute importance of putting these resources in the hands of teachers. The library media specialist has to inform teachers of these resources and encourage them to use them to update lessons, read alouds, and to make their planning times more effective. This teacher was spending hours a day and all weekend searching for websites, books and materials for lessons when she could have easily located high quality resources with these resources.