Workshop Title:
The 3 R’s: Readers, Researchers, and Recorders
Workshop Description:
Engaging staff and students in a variety literacy experiences designed to foster cooperative learning and life-long inquiry . . . from a librarian’s point of view, but applicable to all of us. Focusing on how to involve staff and students in meaningful experiences, we will share exciting tips, “how to,” samples and strategies for successful projects promoting reading, researching, and recording.
Presenters:
Miriam Hodges - Librarian/Media Specialist Diane Peasley - 7th-8th Grade World Studies & American History

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For those who were interested in the report writing techniques (to include the diagram of a page with topic and reference squares) - James, Elizabeth and Carol Barkin, How To Write a Great School Report, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, New York, 1983.

For those of you who would like to purchase the flip book that gives ideas for higher level thinking skills, Quick Flip Questions for Critical Thinking is published by Edupress, PO Box 883, Dana Point, CA 92629. There are also other flip books that have very helpful ideas in this series.

~ Mailbox Magazine
~ Copycat Magazine
~ "Book-It" Program
~ Accelerated Reader

Information Literacy handouts are available at:
~ http://www.librarysmart.com/working/home.asp
~ http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/evaluate/evaluating.html

"E-Literacy?" video available from UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information
Studies

Civil War Project
~ The Valley of the Shadow (website)

Revolutionary War Project
~ List of Revolutionary War links from The History Channel
Plagiarism Bellamy, Clayton
~ "Teacher quits when board winks at plagiarism," The News Tribune, 7 Feb. 2002.
~ Carlson, Tucker. "That's Outrageous." Reader's Digest, July 2002.