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Theme lists

KarenCarswell — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:46:07 CST

Do please check with your English Department when recommending lists of books for NCEA Levels 2 and 3.

These standards are currently being adjusted and revised and some books mentioned on all lists both on and off the wiki may not be of high enough levels.

When looking for books on a particular theme check out the list below and the ones on the sidebar. If you can't find useful titles here then make an enquiry on the listserv and post a 'hit' of your titles so that they can get onto the lists we make.

If you want another source it is often useful to search in Library Thing.
Try this LibraryThing site too: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/NCEAreading/yourlibrary

Abandonment - novels based on the feelings of youth abandoned by friends, the system, family, war etc

Addiction - fiction suitable for senior students; theme studies.

Afterlife -

Ageism - fiction in respect of prejudice against elderly but also prejudice of any singled out age group

Altruism/Risking self to help others - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Ambition and Realising ambition - titles suitable for Level 1 and senior students' theme studies.

Apocalyptic - fiction suitable for senior students'theme studies.

Beauty or Ugliness - titles suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Belonging - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Betrayal - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Between two worlds - fiction suitable for junior students where characters move from one world to another.

Black Civil Rights fiction - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Challenges/obstacles facing women - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Characters who inspire - fiction and biographies suitable for theme studies with inspiring characters/people.

Characters who reinvent themselves - fiction and biographies

Childhood innocence - fiction and some biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Communes - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Conformity - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Corruption - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Courage - fiction and non-fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Cultural Perspectives - fiction and non-fiction suitable for Year 11, 12 and 13

Cultural prejudice against women - fiction and biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Dangers of apathy - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies based on the quotation “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” – Edmund Burke

Deception - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Deterioration of society - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Disability - biographies, fiction and non-fiction on coping with various types of disability.

Discrimination and Prejudice - biographies, fiction and non-fiction.

Displacement - fiction covering WWII and other wars or conflict resulting in displacement of people.

Domestic violence - fiction and some biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Dysfunctional families - fiction, including short stories suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Dystopia - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Eating disorders - fiction and some biographies, poetry and drama suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Epistolatory stories - a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.

Euthanasia - suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Evil as woman - mainly fiction suitable for Level 3 study.

Fear - fiction and films

Forbidden love - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Forgiveness - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Freedom - fiction and biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies on the themes of freedom, civil and human rights.

Greed - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Growing up - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Hidden personality - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies on people living double lives (e.g. hiding domestic violence, men living as women and vice versa, hiding an illness, using a new identity, etc.)

Homosexuality - fiction for young people on this subject (links to Pulse at the Christchurch City Libraries website)

Human trafficking - fiction and some non-fiction suitable for theme study on trafficking or the slave trade.

Ideal man - books suitable for a senior student theme study on the portrayal of the ideal man in literature.

Identity - fiction suitable for good Year 10 readers (although some titles may also be useful for senior students' theme studies)

Ignorable love - meaning someone who has found love, then left or lost it, then found it again. Suitable for Level 2 or 3.

Impact or influence of religion on one's life - fiction and film suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Importance of Storytelling - fiction, film, poetry, short story suitable for Level 3 theme study.

Imprisonment - (Including wrongly imprisoned) fiction, non-fiction and film suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Innocence - fiction suitable for senior student's theme study.

Injustice: taking a stand against - fiction and biographies suitable for Level 2. Also includes a few titles dealing with Justice.

Insanity and deception - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies, with themes similar to those in One flew over the cuckoo's nest (insanity, deception, being institutionalised)

Intimacy and closeness - fiction suitable for senior student's theme study.

Jealousy - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Loss - mainly fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Love and romance - from a male perspective

Man's inhumanity to man - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies

Media and celebrities - fiction and some non-fiction that deals with advertising, marketing, tv and film persuasion and the shallow lives of celebrities.

Mental Health Issues - fiction suitable for senior student's theme study.

Mental Illness / Paranoia - fiction and some non-fiction and films suitable to senior student's theme studies.

Modern Gothic - includes fiction and some short stories suitable for senior theme studies.

Money - includes fiction suitable for senior theme studies

Mothers and daughters - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Nuclear war - fiction suitable for senior students' studies on nuclear war and survival.

Outsider in society - fiction suitable for senior student's theme study.

Overcoming Challenges - fiction and biographies

Paedophiles - mainly senior fiction.

Pandemics, Viruses and Plagues - fiction suitable for senior student's theme study.

Persecution - fiction with a central Jewish character.

Personal responsibility - fiction, non-fiction and movies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Power and control - fiction and some movies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Psychiatric Illness -

Racism - fiction and some biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Rags to riches - fiction, non-fiction and movies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Reflecting on own mortality - fiction and some biographies suitable for Year 13 theme studies.

Regret - fiction suitable for theme studies.

Religious intolerance and/or oppression of homosexuality - suitable for Year 13.

Revenge - fiction, drama and film suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Role of women - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Sexuality - of all types especially senior students' theme studies

Substance abuse - fiction and some biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Suppression of Women - New Zealand prose on this subject.

Teen pregnancy - fiction for Year 12 and 13 theme studies. Titles should be evaluated for suitability.

Teenage rebel - fiction and biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Time and its inescapable nature - books suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Tolerance - fiction suitable for senior student's theme study.

Unrequited love - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Violence - mainly fiction suitable for senior theme studies.

War - fiction suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Women restricted by culture - fiction and biographies suitable for senior students' theme studies.

Overcoming Adversity

KarenCarswell — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:38:10 CST

The topic is “overcoming challenges” for mixed ability NCEA Level 2 students, reading ages 14-18.

Title	Author
Hunting the Dragon	Peter Dixon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark Haddon
Freak the mighty	Rodman Philbrick
Accidents of nature	Harriet McBryde Johnson
Try, try again...	Jason Barrell
Bite of the mango	Mariatu Kamara
Life without limits: how to live a ridiculously good life	Nick Vujicic
Purple dandelion: a Muslim woman's struggle against violence and oppression	Farida Sultana
Lucky man	Michael J Fox
Reach for the sky : the story of Douglas Bader	Paul Brickhill
No mean feet and To the max	Mark Inglis
A passion for living	Alexander Stobbs
Every day's a good day	William Pike
Don't just sit there	Tony Christiansen
Owning it : stories about teens with disabilities	edited by Donald R. Gallo
About Griffen's heart	TinaShaw
Flip	Martin Bedford's
In the sea there are crocodiles : the story of Enaiatollah Akbari	Fabio Geda
Izzy willy-nilly	Cynthia Voigt
Nathan’s Run	Nathan Gilstrap
Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
The Last Child	John Hart
Torn Apart	James Patterson
The Power of One	Bryce Courtenay
Parvana	Deborah Ellis
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian	Sherman Alexie
The hunger games	Suzanne Collins
The Recruit	Robert Muchamore
Before I die	Jenny Downham
Divergent	Veronic Roth
Ender's game	Orson Scott Card
I am David	Ann Holm

Education linked library blogs

bookbrainz — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:46:08 CST

Top 50
http://www.teachercertificationdegrees.com/top-blogs/school-library/

Library 2.0

bookbrainz — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:42:24 CST

Administrative Matters

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/schools
This is the quicklinks for schools section of the National Library's website. Useful stuff here.

http://smallibadmin.wetpaint.com/
This is an interactive wiki, has information about library budgetting, and collections aimed at school librarians for school librarians. Check it out.

http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/
This wiki has useful information on many things regarding all levels of school libraries including student librarians, posters and pamphlets on Dewey aimed at the right level for primary schools, useful PowerPoints, etc.

http://www.sldirectory.com/
A resource directory which has been around for a long time and has been used quite heavily some years ago. There are still a number of links which are relevant in all aspects of School Libraries.

http://skerricks.blogspot.com/
One of the most useful blogs around for school librarians. Full of ideas. Written by Ruth Buchanan who works in an Australian school library.

http://eduscapes.com/sessions/reimagine/
Re-imagine, Rejuvenate, Renew: Beyond Library Media Specialist 2.0

Reading Matters

http://gettingboystoread.com/frontpage
Useful for both Primary and Secondary this blog has many ideas for school librarians to try, and also has information for parents.

http://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/Library/library.htm
The Scotch College library website is well known and very highly thought of. If you want to engage your students and have a look at the kind of things you could do with an online site then this is a good place to start looking. Do go to the blog The Portal.

http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/
Nancy Keen has turned the verbal book review for students into an art form. She has won many awards for her work and the website is a treasure trove of ideas for book promotion.

http://www.boysintobooks.co.uk/primary/
The School Library Association of the U.K. (SLA) have produced this downloadable resource. This is aimed at primary but has information that is useful for anybody who works with junior secondary as well. The 11-14 yrs resource is still available but can't find the primary years one [17/12/11]

http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Information/Introduction.htm
This is a comprehensive list of New Zealand authors linking to short bios. Very useful when promoting NZ authors within your school environment.

http://info.infosoup.org/teen.asp
Check out these great booklists & suggestions from InfoSoup Librarians!

http://lucassdocblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/media-centers-and-literacy.html

great quote on the value of school libraries

Assorted Useful Links!

Library link of the day: http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ - feeds a link to your inbox each day, it's American so not everything is useful, but many are very interesting.

Beattie’s Book Blog http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/ One of New Zealand's most widely followed blogs about books. Always something interesting on here.

Librarian Internet Index http://lii.org/

Introduction to School Libraries and Learning http://islmauckland.blogspot.com/

Kiwiology – Rachael King’s blog http://kiwiology.co.nz/books-writing/the-sound-of-butterflies/ (should this be http://soundofbutterflies.blogspot.com/ ?)

Infoblitz -Website of Online Resources for NZ Primary & Intermediate Schools http://www.infoblitz.co.nz/

Hunting and the outdoors

bookbrainz — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:36:15 CST

Hatchett - Gary Paulsen POSSUMS2U - Vince Ford
Gorilla Adventure - Willard Price
Jack Lasenby - Harry Wakatipu comes the mong Frank Saxton - The possum hunt V M Jones - Shooting the Moon Deborah Burnside - Night Hunting Philip Holden - Hunting & high country Philip Holden's classic New Zealand tales Barry Crump - A Good Keen ManGone Bush with Uncle Quinn by Charger Morrison (Reed, 2000)Cor blimey mate: action stories for young hunters, M. Day

Not sure of the reading level on these:The Hunting Forest by Michael Coleman Mantrap by Tish Farrell Quick Read Pig Boy by J C Burke The Island & The Stranger (2bks) by Sarah Singleton Sniper by Theodore Taylor

New Zealand Authors, Novelists and Poets

jennywhitingnz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:29:07 CST

This Excel list of New Zealand Authors, Novelists and Poets is maintained by Jenny Whiting at Favona school.

If you have a name to add to the list, please post/email it to Jenny.

Click on the attachment below to open the list.

List last updated 4th November 2011
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You can also find information about New Zealand writers on the NZ Books Council's Writers Files webpage.

Poetry Archives - Poets - New Zealand Book Council's Poets

New Zealand Science Fiction Writers - SFFANZ (Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand).

A great site with lists of New Zealand Science Fiction Writers from A-Z., New Zealand Novelists, Sir Julius Vogel Awards 1989-2001, New Zealand Writers - Collections, Short Stories and Miscellania, Science Fiction Anthologies published in New Zealand. This site also has New Zealand Film and Television.

Storylines

Author, Illustrator and Storytellers profiles home page

Longacre Press

A list of authors and they are linked.

PEOPLE THAT HAVE EMAILED ME TO PLACE THEIR POST ONTO SLANZAwiki

Kiwi Poets Blurb:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_subritzky

Psychiatric illness

Ruawai-Librarian — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:08:43 CDT

Please check the suitability of titles for your level of study.

Title	Author
Owls do Cry and the sequel Faces in the water	Janet Frame
Finding Alice	Melody Carlson
Human Traces	Sebastian Faulks
Jolt	Bernard Beckett
Wild Roses	Deb Caletti
Scarpetta series	Patricia Cornwell
Wintergirls	Laurie Halse Anderson
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (film)

Let Me Sing you Gentle Songs Linda Olsson
The Behavior of Moths Poppy Adams

Religious Puritanism

Ruawai-Librarian — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:04:39 CDT

Please note: these books will need to be assessed to determine if they are suitable for Levels 1, 2 or 3.

Fiction

I am not Esther	Fleur Beale
The conjuror	Jack Lasenby
Abomination	Robert Swindells
No Shame, No Fear	Ann Turnbull
The Plain Truth	Jodi Picoult
Tales of Alvin Maker	Orson Scott Card
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne

Non-fiction

Sins of the Father : The Long Shadow of a Religious Cult Fluer Beale

School library blogs

Bridget_S — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:55:25 CDT

New Zealand school library blogs

If your blog appears to be abandoned (i.e. not updated for many months) it will be taken off the list. It can easily be put back on again when active again, just contact a moderator.

School Library Web Pages

Bridget_S — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:04:39 CDT

Refugees

bookbrainz — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:04:37 CDT

Picture: some are intermediate level

Refugees – picture books

The Color of Home. Mary Hoffman.
Somalia (includes references to violence forcing the family's
departure--information comes out through artwork done
at the new school
Brothers in Hope: the Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Mary Williams
How Many Days to America?: a Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting (Caribbean)
From Far Away by Robert Munsch (Lebanon)
Who Belongs Here? An American Story by Margy Burns Knight
One Boy From Kosovo by Trish Marx (non-fiction)
Ryan and Jimmy: and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together, Herb
Shoveller (Uganda)
Our Journey From Tibet: Based on a True Story , Laurie Dolphin
One More Border: the True Story of One Family's Escape From War-Torn Europe,William Kaplan
The Silver Path, Christine Harris (unnamed country)
Rebekkah's Journey: a World War II Refugee Story, Ann E. Burg (European
Jews to Oswego, NY)
My Freedom Trip, Frances and Ginger Park (North Korea)
Ziba Came on a Boat by Liz Lofthouse (unnamed country)
A True Person, Gabiann Marin, Jacqui Grantford
Ali the Bold Heart Jane Jolly, Elise Hurst
Rainbow Bird, Czenja Cavouras
Refugees, David Miller
The Arrival Shaun Tan
Home and Away John Marsden, Matt Ottley
The Island Libby Gleeson, Armin Greeder

The Island is the most confronting and darkest, yr 5/6 up although can be used in class with younger children

Home and Away brings it homemost clearly, as it has an Australian/Western family in the war situation,
in a recent future. Chilling. Int up

Chapter books - older - you may need to check the reading level

Boy Overboard and GirlUnderground,Maurice Gleitzman [Afghanistan to Australia]

The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho (Cambodia/Laos)
Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan (Vietnam)
Tonight, by Sea by Frances Temple (Haiti)
Grab Hands and Run by Frances Temple (El Salvador)
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird (Iraq)
The Road from Home: the Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (Turkey)
Aram's Choice by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (Turkey)
The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz (Ethiopia)
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo (South Africa)
Making It Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee by Beverley
Naidoo (non-fiction)
Give Me Shelter: Stories About Children Who Seek Asylum edited by Tony
Bradman (fiction)
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engel (novel in
verse)
Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard (Kosovo)
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor (Austrian Jews fleeing to Sweden)
Tangled Threads: a Hmong Girl's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea (Cambodia/Thailand)
Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer (Jewish refugees in Oswego, New York)
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Hungary)
A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski (Vietnam)
Mud City by Deborah Ellis (Pakistan)
Home is Beyond the Mountains by Celia Barker Lottridge (Iran)
Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai (Afghanistan)
The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson (Kosovo)
The Journey That Saved Curious George: the True Wartime Escape of Margretand H.A. Rey by Louise Borden
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Afghanistan/Pakistan)
Fish by L.S. Matthews (unnamed country)
Year of No Rain by Alice Mead (Sudan)
Kirsti Comes Home: the Story of a Finnish Girl by Aili Kontinnen(Sweden/Finland)
Cry of the Giraffe by Judie Oron (Ethiopia)
The Year of Goodbyes by Debbie Levy (Jewish refugees-Germany to U.S.)
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (North Korea)

Smiling for Strangers by Gaye Hicyilmaz (Yugoslavia)
Leaving Vietnam: the Journey of Tuan Ngo, a Boat Boy by Sarah S. Kilborne
A Kurdish Family by Karen O'Connor (Iraq) (non-fiction)
One Day We Had to Run!: Refugee Children Tell Their Stories in Words andPaintings by Sybella Wilkes
Journey to America by Sonia Levitin (Jews from Switzerland to U.S.)
Sheltering Rebecca by Mary Baylis-White (England/Germany)
Tug of War by Joan Lingard (Latvia)
An Album of War Refugees by April Koral (non-fiction)
Red Bird of Ireland by Sondra Gordon Langford (Ireland)
Displaced Person by Marie Halun Bloch (Ukraine)
Dark Hours by Gudrun Pausewang (Germany)
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hanna Jansen (Rwanda)
Libertad by Alma Fullerton (Guatemala) (novel in verse)
Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji (Uganda)

Soraya the storyteller, Rosanne Hawke, 2004. Afghanistan to Australia - yr 6 up to yr 9

Kanada, Eva Wiseman, Jews in Hungary 1939-1945, Holocaust, 14 yr old main character - hopes to go to Canada

The Refugees, Janice Marriott, 2000, Skyrider series - yr 5 up, no specific country, probably Kosovo/former Yugoslavia

Reading websites and blogs

bookbrainz — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:38:20 CDT

This page is a place to link to information about reading research, reading programs etc.

Websites, blogs, apps, book reviews and e-newsletters. [apps are at the end of this section as some of them are duplicates of websites or blogs.]

LiteracyOnline - a TKI website

Reading Rockets – Reading Research & Reports

http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Education/Introduction/Information.htm

there are many features to this; e.g. one section for parents, one called The School Library, so it's best to do one's own searching.

E-Resources to complement reading
A site created by National Library to support the delivery of professional development sessions for school library teams and teachers in primary and secondary schools.

Books being read aloud:
http://www.storylineonline.net/

Bob Docherty, National Library Adviser, mainly upper primary, intermediate and teen level recommendations

http://bobsbooksnz.wordpress.com/

http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com/

http://www.flashlightworthybooks.com/

US influence but lots of really interesting features

Good Reading magazine Australia, international selection ; occasionally has NZ books, arranged by age. Some public libraries have this available in their e-resources section.

http://www.booksforkeeps.co.uk/

British and nicely organised.

http://www.squidoo.com/great-books-to-read-aloud

UK site but a good site set up by Jaqueline Wilson, the Children's Laureate at the time, organised according to age, may not have been updated since 2007 though.

http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/justforkids.cfm
This one doesn’t overwhelm kids with too much detail or too long a list; it is up to date and looks contemporary and they can click on a button for their age level. The age levels are probably a little advanced but there is enough choice within them to cater appropriately.Good Readingmagazine Australia, occasionally has NZ books, arranged by age.

http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616

wiki by Australian school librarians- some very very useful things here, including Staff reads

http://www.whichbook.net/
More for the grown-ups/senior students, but a great source for reading by genre or style.

http://www.bigstar.co.nz

Recommended reads for everyone from the budding board-book chewer right through to the savvy late teen who’s seen it all and read the book. Set up by 2 New Zealand mothers with book trade and writing connections.

http://www.bookedup.org.uk/

list of 12 titles considered suitable for year 7 UK children. Some are definitely suitable for younger students. I imagine the list will change from time to time.

http://kissthebook.blogspot.com

seems very comprehensive, archive since 2003, but hasn't been updated since Aug 2009.

http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616

wiki by Australian school librarians- some very very useful things here, including Staff reads

http://www.kidsreadingguide.com.au/#

brightly presented recommendations with a mixture of Australian and international titles - sometimes NZ authors included - a little slow to work through because of the need to use the zoom feature before text becomes readable.

http://www.kids-bookreview.com/
mainly Australian - high quality, e-books too.

Blogs:

http://kidsbooksnz.blogspot.com/

Updated weekly, this caters for all ages, and is compiled by New Zealand authors and illustrators who are members of Kiwi Write4kids [Maria Gill, Lorraine Orman, Vivienne Lingard, Jenni Francis, Christine Hurst.] Lorraine still has her Storygoround website but it doesn't appear to be updated as often as this site. They are all also teachers or librarians.

Occasional reviews by NZ book girl but currently has the aim of reviewing a book a day till Christmas 2009. Authoritative and knowledgeable reviewer.
Now at
http://nzbooksforkids.blogspot.com/

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/
click on reviews and/or blogs

This could be in every section of the wiki! An amazing variety of blogs and information.

Newsletters - you need to subscribe to these. While some of these are not without bias , I can recommend the following:

http://www.bookcouncil.wb.gs/popup-newsletter.html?PageID=344595

http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Education//Kids_Channel_Introduction/Kids_Books_Introduction.htm

has children's content.

Random House

The Horn Book

Achuka

Apps for facebook
From Beatties book blog May 12 2011
[weblinks have not transferred]

By Jason Boog on Galley Cat
These online tools will help you pick books, find book clubs, take quizzes, and swap books. What’s your favorite book related app on Facebook?

1. Goodreads: Place where you see what your friends are reading. (150,734 monthly active users)
2. Visual Bookshelf: See what your Friends are Reading, Write Reviews, and Recommend Books; Meet new People who are Reading your Favorite Book! (95,048 monthly active users)
3. weRead: lets you share your bookshelf. See what your friends are reading. Millions of books and reviews. Chuck a book at a friend, write reviews, take the Quiz, join a Book Club, get Book Recommendations, meet new People! (57,870 monthly active users)
4. aNobii Books App: Shelve, find and share books in Facebook. (32,259 monthly active users)
5. I’m Reading: List and rate the books you are reading. Browse through reviews your friends have written and discover some great new book ideas! (15,722 monthly active users)
6. Comic Books Beta: Stay on top of new comics as they are released each week from the major publishers such as Dark Horse, DC, Image and Marvel (7,601 monthly active users)
7. PaperBackSwap: share your information from PaperBackSwap.com on Facebook: books you receive, mail, and post as well as your current bookshelf, wish list, books I’ve read, and books to be read, ratings, and reviews. (7,339 monthly active users)
8. Excellent Books: Great Books (4,773 monthly active users)
9. Lendle: Kindle™ Book Sharing: Lendle is the easiest, fastest, fairest, and best way to lend and borrow Kindle™ books. (4,337 monthly active users)
10. AuthorPages by Rethink Books: provides solutions for authors to showcase their works on Facebook Pages. (3,871 monthly active users)
11. We Read: Shows the books you’re reading in your profile and feed. Rate, review, and discuss books. Discover users with similar books and what books are popular among your friends and other users. Give We Read a try! (2,340 monthly active users)
12. Avon Romance: We know what women want: great books, a satisfying story, a passionate escape…and a happily-ever-after. (2,209 monthly active users)
13. Tumblebooks: the first eReader App for Facebook! Read our ebooks anytime, see what your friends are reading, recommend books, and even write reviews! The app is preloaded with 20 free ebooks and 50 credits. Start Tumbling today! (1,644 monthly active users)
14. Dr. Seuss Books: Dr. Seuss believed that books and learning to read should be fun and exciting for children. (1,557 monthly active users)
15. BookBooN.com: BookBooN.com on facebook. Download free Books.
16. Bookshare Books: Quickly and easily list your favourite books, show off what you’re currently reading on your profile (in a clean, simple way), write book reviews and rate your friends’ libraries with Bookshare. (1,372 monthly active users)
17. BookYap Recommends: Tell us what you like and we’ll tell you what to read. Search for a favorite book to find other books you’ll love. Share recommendations with your friends to see what they think you should read next. (1,361 monthly active users)
18. The ULTIMATE Harry Potter Quiz: Think of this as an O.W.L.S Exam based on all Harry Potter Books and recently released films to test your knowledge about the magical world. Come and take this test, if you dare. (820 monthly active users)
19. YourNextRead: YourNextRead helps you find your next book. YNR is fun, easy to use and gives you great ideas thanks to the YNR community, who recommend books they have already enjoyed. YourNextRead is uniquely powered by YNR users. (339 monthly active users)
20. Book Clubs: The only application dedicated to making connections with like minded book readers. Join now and share your passion for books with others like you. Let the debates begin! (305 monthly active users)

Posted by Bookman Beattie May 12 2011

A tiny bit of fun (for students)

bookbrainz — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:38:53 CDT

Fun activities linked with World Book Day 2010

http://www.worldbookday.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=114

Speedbooking (also known as Speed dating with books)

(Thanks to Clenda Wockner for this)

"Found an idea on OZTL-Net a while ago and decided to give it a go. It is a heap of fun and has resulted in great borrowing. We have offered the option to our English teachers with their reading classes and so far have had 6 classes of Year 9 and 10 students participate – all successfully. It’s called speed booking – a bit like speed dating with books. We put out about 25-30 titles on each of the tables in the library (we have 8). The books are a combination of fiction, non-fiction and true story type titles. The class comes in and sit 4 to a table. They have a look at the books on the table and after about 3 minutes we ring a bell. They all then move to the next table. We allow them to carry one book with them to the next table which they can then continue to carry or change for another book. They don’t have to carry books on of course. We usually go through about 4 or 5 table changes and then they can borrow a book they have found or sit and read or continue to peruse the tables.
We have found that the kids enjoy the experience. The magazine borrowing in those sessions has been hugely lower than usual. I have no problem with magazines but it’s good to see kids finding a book! I think it’s having books in front of them that they may not normally pull off the shelf. They can see a much wider variety of books in one session than if they are trawling the shelves too.
Now all we have to do is find a way for the left over books to find their own way back to the shelves! Having said that, I firmly believe that it is worth the work. It is interesting to put out books that have not moved off the shelf and have them borrowed.
Clenda Wockner
Director of Library & Information Services, Waimea College

IPL Kidspace

Go to our Ask an IPL Librarian reference service. ... Be sure to check out the fun stuff related to holidays and zoos too! Great for Pre-school and Primary School!

SSMS Library / Mrs. Regina McLemore Librarian TeacherWeb Fun Stuff

Rick Walton's Stuff For Teachers and Librarians

Help find the cure Rick Walton's Stuff For Teachers and Librarians ... Fun With Language Arts-- A collection of fun language arts concept ...

BBC Bitesize

These games and activities relate to the British and Scottish Curriculum, but there are many ideas in here for things you can do locally.

Starfall

Great for Primary. Learn to Read!

American Library Association

Great Websites for kids.

Interactive Spelling Bee

Great for all grades.

McGruff Games

This site has many fun cartoon videos on safety prevention, environmental, stories and other cool stuff.

Nobel Prize for Literature Games
Too good not to share, a variety of games for both senior and junior students. Check out the right brain/left brain game, but there are plenty more.

RIF Kids - Reading Planet

1. Activitiy Lab - Fun activity ideas.
2. Game Station - Story Maker, Super Sorter, Writers' Blocks, Word Builder and many more games.
3. Book Zone - Search for a good book and read and write your own book reviews.
It looks like you have to join the club to actually use these.

Silly book jokes

from the Boy Scout Trail website

Curious George

There are Teacher / Librarian Resources here. On this website there are also Games and Activites for children to do.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

From National Geographic contains 12 of their stories of which 4 have audio. The site contains a basic timeline of their lives, a map, fairly lengthy artical on the brothers Grimm as well as links to related sites. This site would be for use with older students.

Quizzes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/quiz/2011/jul/21/quiz-schools-out -
this is a general one and there are some others on the same site.
If you want a Fairy Tale/traditional / myth quiz or extended Harry Potter quiz email angelas@sunnynook.school.nz and I can send them to you.

The guess a well known story or folk tale from stumbleupon:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/29tpnr/funnypagenet.com/tales-and-minimalism

Fun stuff

bookbrainz — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:36:05 CDT

This is a place for people to post successful ideas, things that have worked with students. Maybe there are some worksheets you are happy to share, maybe you have some ideas you have picked up from elsewhere. Post them here with acknowledgement of where you obtained them, if you know.

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The guess a well known story or folk tale visual from stumbleupon:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/29tpnr/funnypagenet.com/tales-and-minimalism

Toilets and toilet humour

bookbrainz — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:40:06 CDT

Captain Underpants series
What body part is that? a stupid guide to your body. Andy Griffiths
Why do dogs sniff bottoms?, Dawn McMillan
Just disgusting, etc Andy Griffiths
The Story of the little Mole who knew it was none of his business, Werner Holzwarth

Baa baa smart sheep Mark Sommerset
Who's in the loo? / Jeanne Willis
Barf bum gang

Loos through the ages by Richard Wood. From “The First Squat” in -500BC to flush toilets in the 1900’s.

Poo: A natural history of the unmentionable - Nicola Davies, illustrated by Neal Layton

Isobel's Noisy Tummy - David McKee
Dirty Bertie series [including Pants] and Dirty Bertie picture book , Alan McDonald
Dr Dog, Babette Cole
The Snot Goblin..Mira Mee

Peek-a-poo (lift the flap book identifying poo from different animals - picture book)

Harvey: the boy who couldn't fart

The story of toilets, telephones and other useful inventions (non fiction)
Singenpoo's secret weapon - Paul Jennings...
Poop Happened! - A History Of The World From The Bottom Up by Sarah Albee - Non fiction

Pirates of Underwhere
Gunk Aliens - Jonny Moon
Yuck - Matt & Dave
Farticus Maximus - Felice Arena
Naked Grossology - Sylvia Branzei
Gee Whiz! It's all about pee - Susan Goodman
The toilet of doom - Michael Lawrence

Unplugged! : the bare facts on toilets through the ages - Anna Ciddor
My brother drinks out of the toilet : and other poems - Colin Thompson

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom - Louis Sachar

Gross jokes - Glen Singleton

Vesuvius Poovious , Kes Gray

Snail boy and the toilet bots by Susan Gates

Pants, Giles Andreae
More Pants

Willie Wants to Wee Wee by Murray Ball
Better Out Than In
- toilet humour by Adam Wallace,in verse - "Whoops" about farts reads particularly well aloud!

The fly Gustavo Rosemffet Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen& Unwin, 2006. - The fly’s swimming pool is the toilet bowl.
Walter the Farting Dog books, William Kotzwinkle

Themes

bookbrainz — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:46:36 CDT

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Challenges, starting or moving school, house, country, immigratio

Welcome to the SLANZA wiki

MiriamTuohy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:52:30 CDT

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InfoLit models

Bridget_S — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:18:31 CDT

Digital Blooms taxonomy
This is considered a very good recent model of digital literacy and digital information literacy.

i2K - Information to Knowledge
A model for guided inquiry learning in New Zealand schools (draft version), produced by SLANZA School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa

http://www.big6.com

Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world and developed by educators Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz. They have a blog which you can subscribe to as well.

http://infolit.unitecnology.ac.nz/

Information Literacy Online, 3 Doors to Information Literacy Gwen Gawith's work. Much of this still holds up well in current school environments.

Information Literacy Models and Inquiry Learning Models

Reviews and links to various theories. Possibly one of the most useful websites because it shows most of the widely used theories from Kuhlthau and Todd to Eisenberg and Berkowitz, excellent if your school is exploring pathways in Info Lit.

Information literacy

Bridget_S — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:14:12 CDT

N.B: Do check for currency when using any information literacy models and resources. This area is prone to change.

Please refer to this section's sub-pages for more links, information and attached files.

There are attachments on the bottom of this page for: A research pathfinder, Bogus and fake websites, Bibliographies .

New Zealand Information

1.Nemp Report 2009

2. Information Literacy - Library Audit Checklist
Downloadable document from the National Library.

3. NZCER Information Skills tests publication - should be available in all primary schools

Information Literacy : the most basic of basics
Presentation by Mike Esenberg
It is a 30 minute presentation that anyone who teaches information literacy should listen to. He amplifies his ideas with reference to the Big6 but as a backgrounder to what information literacy is and its importance in the curriculum, this is a must-view. He argues that the 3Rs be extended to 4Rs to encompass research and really shows just how critical information literacy is in the environments our students face today.

e-Resourcing the Curriculum
This is a wiki with a collection of e-Resources to support the curriculum.

Teaching for Information Literacy
This Canadian website is designed to help teachers integrate information literacy skills into their curriculum and encourage the development of information literate students.

Information is like water. A slide share presentation by Oscar Berg. Fantastic to show to your staff as an introduction to info-lit, or you could embed it into a blog. (Thanks to the Bright Ideas Blog for this idea)

Digital learners
A video clip titled 'A vision of K12 students today' on using technology to engage students to develop higher level thinking skills. Very effective in demonstrating our changing world of info access and communication.

IASL International Association of School Librarianship

section onsite on information literacy.

section oninformation skills

NSW Dept of Education and Training

Information LiteracyResearch

'Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement: a Review of the Research'.Report for the Australian School Library Association

Information literacy skills in History/ Social Science

Information literacy standards, Canada

Level 2 Class Sets

KarenCarswell — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:51:18 CDT

These are suggestions for class sets for Level 2.

Title	Author
Paper towns	John Green
Kite runner	Khaled Hosseini
Montana 1948	Larry Watson
Mister Pip (NZ)	Lloyd Jones
Bulibasha (NZ)	Witi Ihimaera
Potiki or Tu (NZ)	Patricia Grace
In my father’s den (NZ)	Maurice Gee
Playing God (poems) (NZ)	Glen Colquhoun
The messenger	Marcus Zusak