Randa Bruce
Library Media Teacher
Shadow Valley Elementary
Ogden School District
Rolling With the Punches
Randa’s Style
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Life Lessons I Have Learned: o Be a life- long learner o Be flexible, you never know when “Murphy” will show up. o What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger (long before Kelly Clarkston’s song!) o “It’s the little things that matter that add up in the end…” o Advanced preparation and prioritize, then you can meet “Murphy” head on! o Give the students ownership o Keep your eyes and ears open o Let it go… makes life less complicated
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Management o Planner placed at the checkout area
 Who comes when
 Who my assistants are in order of the day activities
 Topic of the lesson
 School events for the day
 Appointments/ meetings
 List new students on the day they arrived or date I learned of the arrival. Also when a student leave the school. o Each class’s work is stored on the counter in a container with folders for each table. o 10 minutes for book exchange ( this year it is after the lesson):
 Destiny quest: search for book or place one on hold
 Check out books with student librarians
 Students bring something in to read if not checking out
 Students receive a preparation grade for the month from me that many of the teachers use in the grading system (preparation/ citizenship…) o 20 minute lesson o Reinforce our school rules: Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe, Be Ready o Be FLEXIBLE o Be CONSISTENT
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August 20: Train the first Shadow Valley Eagles Network (SVEN) Crew and prepare the
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PowerPoint format for the SVEN News broadcast
August 21- September 7
Meetings
Assist teachers prepare: laminating, gathering library material etc. as well as set up the Library
Media Center (LMC)
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Finalize LMC and PLC schedules
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Make sure Renaissance Place is up and running
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Create current years LMC assistants application forms

SVES Student Library Media Assistant Application 2012- 2013
Last Name _____________________________________ First Name ___________________________________
Grade _______________________ Teacher ______________________________________________________
1.
I wish to help in the library because:
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
2.
Library experiences/ skills:
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
3.
Preferred library tasks: rank in order of preference, 1 being your top choice: a.
_____ assist during my class’ LMC time b.
_____ assist with kindergarten: ___ Tuesday 9:50-10:00 ____ 10:20-10:30
___ Wednesday 10:20-10:30
___ Thursday 10:20-10:30 ____ 1:50-2:00
___ Friday 10:20-10:30 c.
_____ assist with 1 st
grade: ____ Tuesday 2:50-3:00 ____ 3:20-3:30
___ Wednesday 10:20-10:30
___ Thursday 10:20-10:30
___ Friday 10:20-10:30 d.
____ assist 2 nd
grade: ____ Tuesday 10:50-11:00 ____ 11:20-11:30 ____ 12:50-1:00
____ Wednesday 12:50-1:00
____ Thursday 12:50-1:00
____ Friday 12:50-1:00 e.
____ Shelving books during recesses; check which day(s) of the week
____ Monday ____ Tuesday ____Wednesday ____ Thursday ____ Friday f.
____ Helping before school; check which day(s) of the week
____ Monday ____ Tuesday ____Wednesday ____ Thursday ____ Friday g.
____ Helping after school; check which day(s) of the week h.
____ Monday ____ Tuesday ____Wednesday ____ Thursday ____ Friday
________________________________________________ ___________________________
Student’s signature date
_______________________________________________ ____________________________
Parent‘s signature date
________________________________________________ _____________________________
Teacher’s signature date
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August 20: Train the first Shadow Valley Eagles Network (SVEN) Crew and prepare the
PowerPoint format for the SVEN News broadcast
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August 21- September 7 o Meetings o Assist teachers prepare: laminating, gathering library material etc. as well as set up the
Library Media Center (LMC) o Finalize LMC and PLC schedules o Make sure Renaissance Place is up and running o Create current years LMC assistants application forms o Become reacquainted with Destiny and Destiny Quest o Lesson planning- mapping out the year
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English Language Arts Crosswalk
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Common Core Standards aligned to the AASL Standards o http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/commoncorecrosswalk/ccelafirst
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September 10-October 31
 Beginning a new school year

 Library Expectations
 Locating, choosing , Destiny Quest, and care of books
 Library Media Assistant job application
 Checking out/in a book
 Shelve books
 Various tasks
 Library assistants: check books in and out
 Kindergarten, 1 st , and 2 nd classes: 4 th -6 th assistants who applied for the job
3 rd grade: class’ student of the week, teacher helper for the week…
4 th , 5 th , and 6 th classes: assistants who applied for the job
 Library assistants sort and shelve books before and after school, or during recesses.
 Library assistants during their recesses help with various tasks I may need help with: stamping new books, collating and stapling packets, sharpening pencils, opening and closing the library for the day.…
 Media Literacy
 “Everyone’s” Purpose (PIE: Persuade, Inform, Entertain)
 3 Rs
 Review
 Reflect
 React
 Genre (See Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes in Works Cited list)
 Information Literacy
 Pioneer Online Library Scavenger Hunt
 When I teach how to create a bibliography for the first time each year I hand out graph
paper for them to practice writing and spacing correctly.
 http://www.schools.utah.gov/CURR/library/Core-Curriculum/K-6-Core-
Curriculum/Bibliographic.aspx
 Holiday stories (see Works Cited pages)
 Book Fair
 Run by the PTA
 I am able to choose books for the library with a major portion of the profits.
 I pull titles and then have the upper grades identify the genre, evaluate them and then make suggestions as which books should be added to our collection.
 With the younger grades I read some books from the fair.
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November 1 – January 11
 Storytelling (Also see works cited pages)
 recalling / retelling a story
 character traits
 Summarizing
 Storyboarding
 sequencing

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 critiquing
 Collaborating
 climax/ turning point
 point of view
 genre of their story
 Big6
 Modeling storytelling
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Poise
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Vocal Clarity
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Voice Expression
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Eye Contact
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Body Language
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Gestures
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Familiarity with the story
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Uniqueness
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Satisfying Ending
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Audience Appeal
January 14 – March 15
 Books: care of, parts of…
 Weber Reads (see works cited pages)
 Modified KWL chart
 Emily, Michael Bedard
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Visited Google Earth:
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get a feeling/ understand the setting
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Illustrator’s purpose
 studied pictures to learn more about Emily than the author wrote
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Read a historical fiction
 note taking
 facts vs. opinion
 inferences, drawing conclusions, predicting
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Compare/ contrast life in the 1800 vs. now
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Vocabulary building- context clues
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Analyzed 1 poem
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Mapping skills grades 4-6
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Viewed map of the community in 1873
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Locate Dickinson Family property
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Located Amherst College
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Google Earth : o Located The Homestead, her home now a museum o Located The Evergreens, her brother’s home

o Located the house across the street, the little girl’s home in the story, Emily by Michael Bedard o Explored the community of Amherst, MA o Latitude/ longitude
 My Uncle Emily, Jane Yolan
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Emily Dickinson’s Family Tree:
 graph/ charts
 identifying characters in the book
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Read a historical fiction:
 note taking
 facts vs. opinion
 inferences, drawing conclusions
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Compare/ contrast life in the 1800 vs. now
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Vocabulary building- context clues
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Analyzed 2 poems
 reading graphs/ charts
 creating a graph/ chart: grades k-2 make their family tree o Substitutes
 Almanac Jeopardy
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Table of Contents
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Index
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Key words in bold print
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Listening for key words in the questions to look up in the index
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Finding information on the correct page
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Reading charts, graphs, maps, nonfiction text
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Summarizing
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Predicting, inference, conclusions
 Library games
March 18 – May 10
 eBooks: Follettshelf: New this year; train 2-3 students in each class, 3-6 grades, then
they will assist in their class, article in newsletter.
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Review For End of Level test: get suggested topics to review from teachers
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Review Games
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Students’ evaluation of the year : favorite lessons, wish lists
May 13-24
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Gather all books

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Pack up for the summer
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Shut all electronics down
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Yes,
I have survived another year
And so can you!!!
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