Standard: Fostering Literacies to Empower Life-Long Learners
Theme: Engaging Readers
Growth Phase: Leading
Growth Indicator: Students help build a community of readers.
Middle-school students from this Winnipeg, MB, K-Grade 8 school promote books they love through creating interesting sound bytes.
École Marie-Anne Gaboury Carrefour d’Apprentissage. (2018). MAG Reviews Sold. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/monsieur-acorn
Thoughtful illustrations & lively text highlight book recommendations created by middle school readers and are posted on the school library learning commons web page in this K-8 French Immersion school in Winnipeg, Man.
Acorn, D. (n.d.) Graphic Book Reviews. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/view/varennesllc/books/book-recommendations-and-reviews/graphic-book-review
This article from British Columbia highlights the process the school library went through to win one of the 2019 Follett Challenge awards. The article focused on how the teacher-librarian moved their annual “Battle of the Books” to a digital platform to emphasize the 21st Century competencies, allowing students to learn how to work collaboratively in a digital world while still becoming a community of readers.
Armstrong, L. (2020, June 2). By Building Community, We Won Big. Canadian School Libraries Journal 4 (2). Retrieved from https://journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/by-building-community-we-won-big/