The LibrarySparks Road Show will help you:
· Motivate students to read
· Integrate literature across all curriculum areas
· Teach library skills with fresh, new lessons
· Provide ready-to-go programs that you can implement with your fall programming

Most of all, the LibrarySparks Road Show will give you fun, new ideas to spark a love of reading in your students! Receive a CEU certificate of completion for 6 professional development hours!

Literacy is our mission, collaboration is our mandate, and reader’s theater is our vehicle to fun and excitement in the library. Join in the learning as we engage in reader’s theater pieces, then explore the definitions and key components of reader’s theater and the many advantages to a variety of student readers. Leave with tips and a plan for implementing your own reader’s theater program in your library.

In Toni’s program, you will:
· discover the advantages of reader’s theater in literacy promotion
· participate in reader’s theater and take home scripts, masks, and props you can use with your students
· engage in extension activities to accompany the books from which reader’s theater pieces are drawn
· meet her newest picture book character, Librarian Mrs. Skorupski, and participate in a reader’s theater of Fire Up with Reading, the sequel to Our Librarian Wont Tell Us ANYTHING! debuting this September from UpstartBooks
 
Learn more about
Toni Buzzeo
 

Make every minute count with library lessons and programs that combine fun and learning that you will enjoy as much as your students.

In Pat’s program, you will:
· learn storytelling techniques that involve students
· get patterns and ideas for cross-curricular, inexpensive puppets
· teach library skills with games
· learn the Dewey Decimal system aerobically!
· learn subversive ways to collaborate with teachers
 
Learn more about
Pat Miller

 

One technique for making literature come alive for children is to follow the reading of a picture book with a lively, often silly, participative musical activity. Both non-musicians and accomplished musicians will be able to learn several easy, practical, “kid-tested” songs and movement activities to incorporate into literature-based programs.

In Rob’s program, you’ll learn how to:
· create unique thematic story program lesson plans
· make poetry fun through inventive choral readings and writing extension activities
· sing and move with literature, even if you are a non-musician
· make kids laugh with literature, even if you are not a comedian
· create lifelong readers and lifelong library-users through musical booktalks, and even a library rap or two
 
Learn more about
Rob Reid

 

Questions about the Road Show? Call 1-800-448-4887