Quick Tips to Prepare Your Library for PreK
Prepare your library for PreK; make it an inviting, exciting and engaging space for little learners to love coming to the library.
Prepare your library for PreK; make it an inviting, exciting and engaging space for little learners to love coming to the library.
Empower elementary students in the library. Use these tips to teach them how to successfully complete a library self checkout.
Being an elementary school librarian can frequently feel unwieldy. There is so much to do! We teach, shelve, circulate, collaborate, order books, and more. I know many school librarians who also manage the school’s technology, book clubs, and school discipline. With so much to do, it’s necessary to make library teaching manageable.
How can we keep reluctant readers engaged so they stick around for a read aloud? After all, they don’t have choice in what gets read aloud to the class.
One thing that is a huge life and time saver is a Scope and Sequence. I’ve started using them years ago. Back when I was a classroom teacher. Even today as a Library Media Specialist, I still find them invaluable.
Just reading aloud doesn’t guarantee students are going to enjoy it. Or that they are going to sit calmly and quietly while we read. Or that they’ll want to answer any of our questions we may ask before, during, or after reading to them. If we want students to love a read aloud, we need a few tricks up our sleeve.
Teacher – student relationships are a key factor in student engagement and motivation. When students know that we care, and we are interested in them, they feel safe and comfortable taking risks.
It can be difficult keeping young children engaged. They have a need to get up and move and talk to others. In addition to that, today’s technology has trained their brains to work with small bites of information.
I am not an organized person by nature. It is something that I have had to, and continue to, work on. Because I hate feeling like a scattered brain hot mess!
One of the most fun things to do is to teach young children to care for school technology.
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