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Welcome to the Center School Media Center!
Media Center - 708/364-3248
Laurel Brunell - Media Center Specialist
lbrunell@orland135.org
Sabrina Muftic - Media Center Associate
smuftic@orland135.org
About the Media Center
The Library Media Center serves as the information hub of the school. Its purpose is to provide opportunities for students to become critical seekers of information, users of media in all formats, and independent, lifelong learners. The Library Media Program has three components: Literature Appreciation, Library Skills, and Resource Based Learning.
- View our philosophy and program components
- Just Right Books
- Birthday Book Program
- Monarch Award Books
- Learning with the Web
- Accelerated Reader Program
- Parent Reading Tips
- Keeping Safe on the Internet
"Just Right" Books
- Choose by title
- Choose by author
- Choose by grade level
Birthday Book Program
The Center School Media Center would like to invite you and your child to participate in our Birthday Book program. This voluntary program has been established to promote the value of books to our students, to introduce them to authors that are producing the best that children's literature has to offer, and to enhance our collection at Center for our students and teachers to enjoy this year and for many years to come.
Birthday Books may be donated at the time of your child's birthday. A book label with your child's name and birth date will be permanently affixed to the book, and he or she will be the first to check the book out of our library.
A list of books that have been given rave reviews in library journals and are available at our local bookstores can be found below. As books are purchased, we will keep this list updated. If you prefer, please feel free to select your own. Due to the age of our students and the amount of use our books get, hard-covered books usually survive the trips back and forth to school more successfully.
Thank you in advance for helping our library to grow. Your support and generosity will expand the world of books and reading for our children!
Birthday Book List
Last Updated June 16, 2008
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Penguins, Penguins, Everywhere! - Barner
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Hurry! Hurry! - Bunting
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Firefighters! : Speeding! Spraying! Saving! - Hubbell
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Bean Thirteen - McElligott
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Pssst! - Rex
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Russell the Sheep - Scotton
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I Love Cats - Stainton
Monarch Award Books
- Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea - Butterworth
- Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies - Crimi
- Surprising Sharks - Davies
- The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County - Harrington
- George Did It - Jurmain
- Nora's Ark - Kinsy-Warnock
- Library LIon - Knudsen
- Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid - McDonald
- Superhero ABC - McLeod
- Precious and the Boo Hag - McKissack and Onawumi
- Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude - O'Malley
- Clementine - Pennypacker
- Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons - Rosenthal
- Henry and Mudge and the Great-Grandpas - Rylant
- Skippyjon Jones - Schachner
- The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School - Sierra
- The Great Fuzz Frenzy - Stevens and Crummel
- There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me - Walker
- Today I Will Fly! - Willems
- The Blizzard - Wright
Learning with the Web
- KidsClick
- Kids Konnect
- ALA Great Websites for Kids
And here are some more great online resources!
The Accelerated Reader (AR) Program
- View the AR quizzes by title
- View the AR quizzes by grade level
The Accelerated Reader is a curriculum-based assessment tool that provides a summary and analysis of results to enable teachers to monitor both the quantity and quality of reading practice engaged in by their students. Students administer comprehension tests voluntarily themselves, and the system is intended specifically to have strong formative effects on subsequent learning.
A student who uses the program selects a book from the more than 25,000 titles on the AR list. Each book is assigned a point value based on the number of words it contains and its reading difficulty, as derived from a formula based on the Flesch-Kincaid readability index that considers the number of syllables in words and sentence complexity.
After reading, the student goes to the computer and takes a multiple-choice comprehension test on the book's content. Tests may have 5, 10, or 20 items, depending on the length and difficulty of the book. The computer scores the test, awards the student points based on the results, and keeps a complete record. For a book valued at 10 AR points, such as Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a student would receive 10 points for a score of 100 percent, 9 points for 90 percent, and so on. However, the student must score at least 60 percent on the test to earn any points at all.
As students test on more books, the AR system enables close monitoring of general levels of reading performance. The software provides the teacher with an automatically updated analysis of scores for individuals or whole classes; details include average percentage of correctly answered questions, difficulty of books read, points earned, and other diagnostic information. Computer-generated ""at-risk reports"" enable the teacher to guide each student's reading practice for maximum effectiveness.
- Adopted from http://www.readingonline.org.
Parent Reading Tips
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