1. It’s Elementary!
Resources and More
for
K-6

2. Let’s start with low (or no) tech
• Booktalks
• Displays
• Read alouds
• Programs

3. Booktalks

10. Displays

11. Poetry
Novels in verse
Excellence in Poetry for
Children winners
Local poets
Books about music and
musicians
Ladder for poetry

12. Graphic Novels
GN ladder
NF tie in to topic
Check out a GN for a
sibling (younger or
older)
Anime and Manga

13. Dealing with Issues
Autism
Eating disorders
Learning differences
Language differences

14. So many possibilities
• Freaky Friday
story
• Intergenerational
• Science
• Business
espionage
• Author study

15. Simple tech-niques
• Vine for new acquisitions
• Running presentations on genres,
acquisitions, staff picks
• Sound clouds, shelf-talkers

16. #weneeddiversebooks

23. Read Alouds

24. What to Read?
• Poetry
• Short story
• Picture book
• Anything
• Everything
• Don’t forget the NF
• Let kids pick

31. Getting tech-nical
• Presence on social media
• Web site
• You Tube

32. #IMWAYR

34. Other Twitter Resources
• #bookaday
• #titletalk
• #elemchat
• #worldbookday
• #kidlit
• #nerdybookclub

35. People to Follow (epicenter)
• @mrschureads
• @100scopenotes
• @fuseeight
• @colbysharp
• @cynleitichsmith

36. Mr Schu

37. Travis Jonkers

38. Betsy Bird

39. Colby Sharp

40. Cynthia Leitich Smith

41. Web Sites and Blogs
• Nerdy Book Club
• YALSA
• ALSC
• Colby Sharp, John Schu, Travis
Jonkers, Liz Burns

46. You Tube
• Book trailers for picture books
• Philip Nel on Metafiction
• Children’s authors
• Author interviews

47. FINALLY, SOME NEW BOOKS

48. What If?

49. Author “Study”

50. GN Fun for Younger Readers

51. GN Series

52. Create your own?

53. Variants

54. Audio Alert

55. Textless Reading

58. New and Notable

61. Music

71. Oldies but Great-ies

72. Bottom Line?
• Read
• Read some more
• Read even more
• Read
• Read
• Read
• You get the drift…