Jean Darnell: Awaken Librarian

Tomorrow is... We're kicking off our celebration with "Story Webs!" However, instead of a boring graphic organizer (LOL), I made it interactive with a ball of yarn, some giggle and one classic story! We featured a great updated version of the "Three Ninja Pigs" with Corey Rosen Schwartz and Dan Santat's " The Three Ninja Pigs " See all the excitement with our iMovie recap: International Literacy Day from AwakenLibrarian on Vimeo . Here's the campus wide challenge that we gave staff members: For more resources on how you can incorporation some literacy and reading fun check out 11 Creative Reading Incentives for You Classroom ! As a bonus, I came across this wonderful Eduphoria find for teaching literary analysis. I just had to share! :) Big Update: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MY NEW PRINCIPAL! She's a former librarian and she loves reading to the students! Her SUPER-POWER is spreading the joy of literacy! Thank you, Mrs. Metoye...

To promote our book fair, I created a video of our most famous and 2nd strongest advocate of literacy, Mrs. Lisa Langston, campus principal at Lula Belle Goodman! My apologies Mrs. L, but I'm the #1 strongest advocate for literacy! :) sEcReT aGeNt BoOk LaDy from Awaken Librarian on Vimeo .

So those of you that know, I'm SUPER close to earning my Masters Degree in Library Information Systems and Media Technology! Yeah, me! Below is a program that I created for my library advocacy class (LLLS 6234.40 Librarians Empowering Learners)! I created this Infographic and below is an excerpt from my paper. I hope it inspires you! Read Right by Night Light(RRNL): Parent Literacy Initiative Program: The librarian will initiate a campus wide literacy program that is based on parents and students creating a 3-5 minute video of their reading/performing a children’s book. This program is in support of parents reading 20 minutes a day to their children. This will be a 6 week program opened to the entire elementary campus, grades K-5th. The librarian will introduce the program in the library, modeling how parents should interact when reading and different book and video ideas, as well as obtain the necessary parental consent forms and send home literatur...