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Welcome to the Center School Media Center!
Media Center - 708/364-3248
Laurel Brunell - Media Center Specialist
Sabrina Muftic - Media Center Associate
E-mail Username: lbrunell (@orland135.org)
E-mail Username: 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
- View our policy regarding book checkout
- Just Right Books
- Birthday Book Program
- The Monarch Award
- 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 2010-11
- The Very Fairy Princess - Andrews
- LMNO Peas - Baker
- Shark vs. Train - Barton
- Charlie's Superhero Underpants - Bright
- Hip & Hop, Don't Stop - Czekaj
- Ten Little Puppies - Harris
- Red, Green, Blue: A First Book of Colors - Jay
- Bats at the Ballgame - Lies
- Family Huddle - Manning
- Even Monsters Need Haircuts - McElligott
- Fancy Nancy: Ooh La La! It's Beauty Day! - O'Connor
- Fancy Nancy: La Elegante - O'Connor
- For the Love of Soccer - Pele´
- Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie - Parish
- Disney Pixar Toy Story 3 - Peymani
- My Best Friend Is As Sharp As a Pencil - Piven
- Frankie Stein Starts School - Schaefer
- Memoirs of a Goldfish - Scillian
- Baseball from A to Z - Spradlin
- Sitting Duck - Urbanovic
- Dino Baseball - Wheeler
The Monarch Award
The Monarch Award is a children's choice book award for students in grades K-3. Participants in the program must read at least five of the books on the list below. In February, they are given the opportunity to vote for their favorite. Center School has proudly participated in the Monarch Program since it began in 2004-2005!
- When Dinosaurs Came With Everything - Broach
- Bad Kitty Gets a Bath - Bruel
- Fred Stays With Me - Coffelt
- Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale - Deedy
- A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever - Frazee
- Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek - Hopkinson
- Tsunami! - Kajikawa
- Oh, Theodore!: Guinea Pig Poems - Katz
- Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival - Larson
- The Squeaky Door - MacDonald
- Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln - Rappaport
- Cowboy & Octopus - Scieszka
- Splat the Cat - Scotton
- Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories - Seeger
- Too Many Toys - Shannon
- Help Me, Mr. Mutt!: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems - Stevens
- Mudball - Tavares
- Rhyming Dust Bunnies - Thomas
- Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up - Thomson
- Your Pal, Mo Willems Presents Leonardo the Terrible Monster - Willems
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
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 120,000 titles on the AR list. If a student or parent would like to check to see if there is an AR quiz for a certain book, the web site AR BookFinder can be used. The site's address is www.arbookfind.com. 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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