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June 27, 2020 by: Laura

How to Energize Your School Community with Specialist Collaborations

Trapp Specialists Collaborate in the School Library

We know that students benefit from collaboration between classroom or content area teachers and the school librarian. You can read my previous posts for more information: Students benefit from Collaboration in the School Library and More Ideas for Collaboration in the School Library. I’d like to invite you to consider school specialist collaborations to energize and unite your school community around a common theme. I

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June 21, 2020 by: Laura

Students Benefit from Collaboration in the School Library

Trapp Teacher Collaboration

Collaboration in the school library has been a key component of school librarianship as long as I’ve been in the profession.  Even now, “Collaborate” is one of the shared foundations in the National School Library Standards.  We collaborate by working with classroom teachers and content area teachers to ensure the learning in the library augments and supports the learning taking place in the classroom. School

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January 4, 2020 by: Laura

Spice Up Your Library Catalog Instruction!

Trapped Librarian Catalog Practice

Library catalog instruction can be dull and boring. It can be difficult to motivate students to care about library search and location skills when they’d rather be playing a game. Why not make your library catalog search and location practice into a game with additional activities just as fun as playing a game?! This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience.  This means that

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February 9, 2019 by: Laura

Celebrate Chinese New Year With These 7 Picture Books

Chinese New Year Picture Books Trapp

Chinese New Year is a fun time for our students to learn about the traditions of a culture that may be unfamiliar to them.ย  It can be a bright spot in the middle of winter, a reason to celebrate in your classroom or school library.ย  I’d like to share my favorite read alouds for Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year.ย  I recommend pairing an

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๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ป ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€!โ›„ They'll giggle while reading the jokes to their friends.โฃ
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๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ป ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€!
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Celebrating Chinese New Year this week? โญ If you Celebrating Chinese New Year this week? โญ If youโ€™re looking for some good books to read aloud, donโ€™t forget about Epic!  The best part is that theyโ€™re always available with your free educator account. โฃ
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