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**Taking it to the Classroom**
At Valley Springs Middle School, media coordinator Vicki Kolomechuk has ordered a large number of nonfiction books so that teachers may provide additional resources to use with students in the classroom. As an alternative to teachers coming to the media center to check out the materials, Vicki placed all of the books on a cart and wheeled the resources to the classroom. Teachers were able to "browse" the cart and select appropriate resources which Vicki quickly checked out using the //Panther// hand held device that interacts with the Destiny Library Manager media automation program. This is an excellent collaborative effort to promote balanced literacy in the middle school!

Friday, April 25, 2008

Balanced Literacy at Erwin Middle

Erwin Middle has added a selection of books to be used to support balanced literacy strategies. The strategies include imagary, connection, inferring, prediction, summarizing, and questioning. The media specialist, Janean Haggard, has shelved the books on the regular shelves in the library and attached a label to the books with **//BL//** on the spine and the specific strategy on the cover. Books are from all core content classrooms.