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Watch our latest video series, Storytime with Early Edge California and Friends , where members of California's Early Learning community read their favorite children's books in virtual storytime for young children and their families who are at home during the health crisis. The series will include stories read in multiple languages.

View Storytime Series

Lector Invitada Directora Ejecutiva de Early Edge Patricia Lozano lee el libro por Patty Rodriguez y Ariana Stein, " El Sistema Solar con Ellen ".

We have also created companion materials for teachers and providers to conduct their own virtual storytime with the children they support. These include Tips for Virtual Storytime and A Guide to Filming at Home available in both .

We encourage you to utilize these resources to support the young learners in your life and to share the video series with your colleagues and the families you serve.
Stay tuned for more videos throughout the summer!

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We are giving everyone the opportunity to use the entire Arbordale library free through May 15th.

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As we are all adjusting our daily lives to working from home, trying to stay connected and keep going forward, we have opened up some great resources including our multilingual ebooks for parents, teachers and librarians to share with little ones.

Reading is of course near and dear to us. Keeping kids reading, and learning, while homeschooling is something that our company was founded on, so we are giving everyone the opportunity to use the entire Arbordale library free through May 15th.

Teachers using zoom lessons with classes may want to sign-in with a teacher account where you can use the learning management system to customize lessons or use pre-loaded assessments.

Arbordale ebooks are multilingual, and read-aloud in up to nine languages, with an additional bilingual feature. Readers needing assistance can use the speed control and word highlighting for help with pronunciation. Animal sounds and the "For Creative Minds" activities make learning fun and challenging.

Permissions for Online Use during Covid-19

We understand the challenges of ensuring young students and community members continue their learning activities during these unsure times. We have received several requests for online storytimes, and we want to support those that are helping their community. Therefore, we have temporarily revised our reading permissions during social distancing.

If you would like to read an Arbordale book with your class, we prefer that it be uploaded to a secure password protected server and only be available until May 15th. We understand that this is not always possible and if you will be sharing the video on social media, we ask that you say the reading is with the permission of Arbordale Publishing, and we are tagged in the post at:

Facebook: @ArbordaleKids

Twitter: @ArbordaleKids

Instagram: @ArbordaleKids

Please contact Heather Williams at [email protected] with any questions about the permission guidelines or to share your video

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Free Digital Books | Revised Permisssions | Arbordale Publishing

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A collection of free eBooks in multiple languages for children about the Coronavirus / COVID-19.

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The DOE is committed to creating and supporting learning environments that reflect the diversity of New York City. To ensure that our website serves the needs of everyone, it follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Level AA. That means the sites work for people with disabilities, including those who are blind and partially sighted. We are committed to creating accessible digital experiences for all website visitors. If you require assistance with any documents on our site, please please call 917-521-3654, email mdodes2@schools.nyc.gov, or mail to: Michael Dodes, 4360 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10033 for assistance.

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New York City School Library System: COVID-19 Children's eBook Collection: COVID-19 Free eBooks

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The DOE is committed to creating and supporting learning environments that reflect the diversity of New York City. To ensure that our website serves the needs of everyone, it follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Level AA. That means the sites work for people with disabilities, including those who are blind and partially sighted.

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I am at our public library right now and it is deserted. Wisconsin was ordered to close their schools this coming week as more and more cases of Covid-19 pile up. The world is upside down.

As we prepare to switch to online learning, I have been thinking of the power of the read aloud. How having the social connection through shared books can bring us together. How doing a read aloud in this stressful time can calm us. And so as we plan for what we will do, I immediately thought of reading picture books aloud to my students and having them respond to them in a short paragraph through Google Classroom. However, there is one glaring problem; copyright violations, I don't want to break copyright by reading aloud a book and then sharing it with students. So instead, I compiled as many lists as I could find here featuring the creators reading aloud. Perhaps the list will be helpful to you?

Kate Messner has a post that details which publishers have given limited permission to read their books aloud following their guidelines, see the post here.

Indianapolis Public Library has a compiled list here with more than 100 titles

Storyline online has a compiled list right here with some great titles

Kate Messner is compiling videos right here featuring authors and illustrators sharing their work and resources

Susan Tan has a great video channel featuring writing prompts and read alouds

Kidlit TV has a great compilation here

Harper Kids Has their read alouds compiled here

Vooks Online are offering a free first year for teachers and have videos compiled here

Brightly Online has a compilation here

Storytime with Bill from Little Brown Books can be found here

Mrs. P's storytime can be found here

Debbie Ridpath Ohi is posting videos of her books as well here

Unite For Literacy has many stories read aloud in multiple languages compiled here

Free Kid Lit Visits and Authors Read Aloud compiled by A.Keene can be found here

Storytime from Space features astronauts reading aloud

I will keep adding resources here as I find them and as they are shared with me. If you know of any more, please share.

Take care, stay safe, and take care of others. We will get through this.

And by the way, if you can't feed your family in the coming weeks or months, please reach out to me. I will try to send you a giftcard for groceries if I can.
If you are wondering where I will be in the coming year or would like to have me speak, please see this page.

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Pursue these resources and see how they might support a flipped library!

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Best Apps and Websites for the Flipped Classroom | Common Sense Education

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Help students brush up on key content at home so that they come to class eager to clarify, explore, and use what they've learned. Explore this Best Apps and Websites for the Flipped Classroom Top Picks list of 33 tools curated by Common Sense Education editors to find relevant and engaging edtech solutions for your classroom.

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Online research for beginning readers
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Are you feeling sad, confused, angry, anxious, irritated, isolated, and/or hopeless?

This site is intended to provide resources, suggestions, and tips to help during this difficult time as we all try to get through  these days with the many stressors that accompany it. Although we are apart, we are all in this together.

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PebbleGo & Capstone Digital Books - Through June 30

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PebbleGo & Capstone Digital Books - Through June 30

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Free PebbleGo & Capstone Interactive Access for School Closures

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FOR BOOK LOVERS: National Book Festival

The 20th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival celebrates American Ingenuity with more than 120 celebrated authors featured in presentation videos available on demand via the virtual platform for a limited time. Access the Virtual Festival Platform External link , then stream the culminating PBS television special External link for an engaging, immersive experience. For more details and the full list of authors, visit the festival website.

Follow the Festival blog to receive updates and to check out behind-the-scenes content featuring authors from this year's virtual celebration.
Read more

Experience the Festival all year long with National Book Festival Presents, a series featuring outstanding authors, books and related Library treasures.
Watch past discussions

FOR FAMILIES: Create at Home

Connect with Us

The Library has launched a new blog for families! "Minerva's Kaleidoscope" will include activity ideas, updates on programs, puzzles and more. Visit the page to explore and subscribe

Create with Collections

Get inspired by an item in the Library's collections then create artworks, mini-books, and more with activities for kids ages 12 and under. Find all activity sets

Dav Pilkey at Home

Check out this playlist of videos from Dav Pilkey. You can also find additional fun and free content including more "how to draw" and read-aloud videos and downloadable activities at Scholastic Dav Pilkey At Home site External link .

FOR POETRY LOVERS: Celebrate Poetry Every Day

The Library is home to the U.S. Poet Laureate, and offers a wealth of poetry-related content online. Check back here each Friday for new programs and highlights from our digital treasure trove.

Listen to Audre Lorde read and discuss her poems at the Library of Congress on February 23, 1977. This recording is part of the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, which contains nearly 2,000 audio recordings of poets and writers participating in literary events at the Library, along with sessions recorded in the Library's Recording Laboratory.

For more poetry resources, visit the From the Catbird Seat blog.

FOR EDUCATORS: Online Office Hours & Webinars

Join Library of Congress education specialists for:

Online Office Hours: 20-minute topical presentations followed by Q&A held every Tuesday from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern.

Professional Development Webinars: Free, one-hour programs for educators interested in using primary sources with their students held every Wednesday, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern.

FOR CURIOUS MINDS: Conversations on the Future of Democracy

Tuesday, October 20, at 10 a.m., join Sarah Binder, Bruce Carruthers, and Sebastian Mallaby for a discussion of how the Federal Reserve and banking system might act to address the recession caused by the pandemic. Watch on the Library's YouTube channel External link and check out some of the Kluge Center's past virtual events.

FOR KIDS AND TEENS: GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story!

Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, shares his passion for storytelling through a new monthly GRAB THE MIC newsletter and "Write. Right. Rite.," a weekly GRAB THE MIC video series. Check out all of Jason Reynolds' videos here and read all of his newsletters here.

Watch Jason Reynolds' thirtieth and final installment of "Write. Right. Rite." where he challenges kids to write six word headlines.
View All Jason Reynolds Videos

FOR DOCUMENT DETECTIVES: Be a Virtual Volunteer

Join By the People, the Library's online volunteer transcription program from anywhere in the world. Transcribe, tag, or review documents to help make the Library's collections more accessible and findable for all!

FOR MUSIC LOVERS: Join an Online Event

Join the Homegrown Concert Series: On Wednesdays at noon, hear an online concert sponsored by the American Folklife Center on Facebook or YouTube. Find the full series

Be a Citizen DJ: Select short samples of free-to-use audio and video materials from the Library's collection to create your own beats and sound mixes using Citizen DJ.

Take the #FolklifeArchiveChallenge: Search our collections, find a piece you love, create your own version, record it and share! Read more about the challenge

Stay in Touch!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, and sign up for email updates for new resources as they become available. More information is at https://loc.gov/connect

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Dr. David Berendes and Dr. Catherine Rasberry from the Centers for Disease Control presented an overview of the CDC's guidance for community settings and environmental disinfection, and a discussion of how libraries, archives, and museums can help mitigate COVID-19 when working with paper-based, circulating, and other types of collections.  The presentation was followed by a question and answer period.

UPDATES: (March 30, 2020)

The webinar recording can be accessed here.

If you have follow-up questions for the CDC, you may submit them to imlsinfo@imls.gov.

The materials and links mentioned in the webinar have been added to the IMLS coronavirus page under "Official Government Information and Resources."

Presented in coordination with:

U.S. Department of Education

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Archives and Records Administration

Smithsonian Institution

Library of Congress

Speakers:
David Berendes, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
Dr. David Berendes is an epidemiologist in the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch at the Center for Disease Control, focusing on global sanitation and hygiene issues.

Catherine Rasberry, Ph.D.
Dr. Catherine Rasberry is a Health Scientist in Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Adolescent and School Health.

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Professional Learning Opportunities for Library Staff while working from home

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Like many of you, our district is facing longer school closures, which could possibly extend to the end of the school year. There is so much that's uncertain, and I'm sure I'm not the only one struggling with adjusting to working from home.

Many schools are requiring teacher-librarians or library assistants to keep working remotely, or to show that they are doing professional development from home. It can be daunting to think of ways to fill your time if you can't be physically in the library, but still need to "prove" that you're working.
READ MORE: 10 Virtual Library Activities Students Can Do at Home
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links, which means if you purchase an item after clicking the link, I will receive a small commission. See Disclosures & Disclaimers for more information.

Here are 7 Work-from-Home Professional Development Activities for Library Workers:

Learn from Experts through Webinars

Many of these webinars offer completion certificates or even continuing education credits to prove you participated. Check with each website if that's something your administrator wants to see.

Read & Discuss a Professional Book

Google Classroom or other learning management systems are great for managing on online book club, but even a private Facebook group can work well.

Make sure to add your administrator to the group, GClassroom, or other discussion platform for both accountability and advocacy.

Cari White from Library Learners and I have been working on something extra special these past few months, and we're hosting an online book study during April & May as part of our FREE Open House preview of our new project, Librarians Teach.

During our Open House, you are invited to read Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids by the amazing Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp, and discuss how we can use and apply what we learn.

The book study will run for about 6 weeks starting April 15th.

Our book discussions will be in a private Facebook group, and anyone can join. Plus, we are offering completion certificates for those who participate in the weekly book discussions!

Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt - I finished reading this a few weeks ago, and I've been amazed at the difference it has made as I've tried to make my life less about working all the time, and more about equal measures of meaningful work and family time. Free to Focus has practical advice and free downloads for practicing and using the advice Hyatt gives.

by Cal Newport - I actually read this one before Free to Focus, but it is more abstract and focuses on higher education. For teachers, drawing parallels between Newport's work in academia and our own work is pretty easy, albeit not a perfect metaphor. For me, this book helped my brain set-up and prepare to implement the Free to Focus techniques.

Invent to Learn by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager, 2nd edition - For anyone who is maker-interested, this is required reading.

The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Designing & Teaching Online Courses by Joan Thormann and Isa Kaftal Zimmerman - Yes, it's over 8 years old which is ANCIENT in the tech world. But the strategies and practical tips in this book are invaluable, and easy to replicate with modern tools and learning management systems. If you are tasked with designing an online course from the ground up, this book is a goldmine!

Sharpen Your Tech Skills with Online Courses

If your district uses Google Suite for Education, or if you just like using Google tools, take the Google Certified Educator Level 1, Level 2, or Certified Trainer training.

Though the test to "earn" your certification isn't free, it's extremely affordable.

Ask your administrator if they will pay for a voucher so you can take it for free, but if they can't or won't, I recommend taking these courses through your personal Google account. Then it can travel with you to another district or job, which is especially important for younger or more mobile teacher-librarians.

When I want to do something in Google Classroom and can't figure out how, I go to one of 2 websites: Alice Keeler or Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning. Check out both of them for online courses as well (though not usually free) to help you learn more about using Google tools in your library instruction.

I'm sure most librarians are aware that Common Sense Education is well-respected as a source of reviews for apps, games, and other media aimed at children in grades Pre-K through 12.

The Common Sense Educator recognition program is a customizable online course for educators to learn more about using technology tools carefully and thoughtfully. I especially like that they model the best practices of differentiating online teaching by offering choices to you (the student).

Learn by Listening with Podcasts

When I'm commuting to work full-time, I spend 6.5 hours driving every week. So I've learned to find interesting podcasts and Spotify playlists to mix in with radio listening as I drive.
Here are some of my favorite podcasts, which have HOURS of excellent professional and personal listening:

What I like most about this podcast is that Angela is a tireless voice of encouragement to teachers. She knows what it's like, and she advocates for self-care equally with excellent pedagogy and instructional practices.

It was Angela's podcast that first introduced me to the idea that I didn't have to work all day and all night to be a good teacher or a good librarian. I learned to change my teaching practice so that I can leave at the end of the school day and not feel guilty. THAT is why she's amazing!

Angela has also written several books that are on my never-ending To Read List, among them Fewer Things Better. I suspect it will be like Free to Focus for teachers.

Jennifer Gonzalez is amazing, and I love her practical approach to excellence in teaching. She's insightful and thought-provoking, and always gives me something to consider when I listen to an eqisode.

This podcast is awesome for keeping up with teaching trends and how to apply them in a REAL classroom. It's truly about putting superb teaching theory in practice with realistic expectations.

Fuse #8 n' Kate is the only "book podcast" I've kept up with, albeit not regularly. I really appreciate the outside perspective of Kate, who isn't in the children's literature/library world, and the conversations are awesome and reflective. This podcast also tells some of the little-known behind-the-scenes info about classic children's literature, so that's always interesting to me.

School Librarians United is completely new to me, but I like it so far, and it's nice to have a podcast that's dedicated to our niche within the library world.

You might not be able to get work-time "credit" for these two, but they have both helped me grow immensely as a teacher, parent, and general human being.

I highly recommend The Road Back to You book and podcast for Christians, though those of other faiths will likely find value in it as well. It focuses on the Enneagram personality types and interviews different people who are one of the 9 types. It's fascinating from a psychology standpoint, it has helped me build empathy for those I disagree with, and it has helped me to have more grace for myself.

The Focus on This podcast has helped me to apply some of the strategies in the Free to Focus book I mentioned above.

Each week's episode is about 1 particular strategy to help you feel less overwhelmed all the time...which includes me and a lot of teachers I know.

Each episode ends with by an interview with a "Full Focus Planner" user....which is one of the main purposes of this podcast: to heavily market the "Full Focus Planner," and its related products from Michael Hyatt.

Full disclosure: I'm trying out the "Full Focus Planner" and might do a review later for how teachers could use it...but the jury is still out on whether I like it or not.

Revise Your Most Unengaging Lesson or Unit

This is hard, right? Not only is it difficult to reflect objectively on a unit we've made and find it's not working anymore...but it's often impossible to find the time and mental space to do the actual revising. Now might be the perfect time to re-vamp your library curriculum, even if it's just one unit or lesson.

For example, I have always hated teaching website evaluation, and there just weren't that many resources that I thought would fit well with the rest of my curriculum or fit my student's needs. I could have spent 100-ish hours creating my own...or what I did instead was use Benjamin Kort's unit that I read about in SLJ's November issue. He very kindly posted the link on Twitter, and it deserves 5,000 glitter stars!

Here is the fake news / media literacy unit discussed in the second section of this article. Just a couple months away from revising it for year two! http://bit.ly/2DB9USW
- Benjamin Kort, tweet on Dec 2, 2019 @ 9:50 PM

This was the first year I taught media literacy/website evaluation this way, and while I already see some modifications that it needs, I felt MUCH better about the effectiveness of that unit than I ever have in the past.
Some ways you could get started:
Maybe Catalog Your Ebooks or Update Your Website

I wrote these 2 activities last on purpose because they really shouldn't be a priority.

I realized after adding my records from our state ebook consortium that they didn't have a call number, so over the past few years I've manually added a "copy" of that ebook with a barcode and a call number that starts with EBOOK to make it easier for my students to distinguish between ebooks and print books. It's tedious though, and not important in the grand scheme of things. But again, if you need to show you're working, it's there as a possibility: Standardize your ebook MARC records.

Try weeding your website resources like you weed your library's book collection.

Take Care

It should go without saying, but unfortunately it's often not said:
Take care of yourself.
Seriously...think about yourself and your family first for the next couple weeks. It's not selfish; it's care.

Consider what you can and cannot do to maintain your sanity and/or personal boundaries during this time. Don't be afraid to say no sometimes, or respectfully tell instead of ask permission.

I hope you're physically and mentally healthy, and taking care of yourself these next few weeks...because we will get through this. And I know we'll be stronger for it on the other side.

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Virtual Professional Development for Teacher-Librarians & Library Staff

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10 Library Activities for Students at home

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Schools and communities are getting more concerned about the spread of COVID-19, or coronavirus. As of this moment, my school district is closing for 2 weeks and plans are being made for online / virtual / remote / distance learning, or whatever we're calling it.

The students in our district have 1-to-1 devices with Chromebooks, so we are a GSuite for Education district, and most of my suggestions below can be easily implemented with Google Classroom. I've been using Google Classroom for a few years now with 4th and 5th grade classes to manage their library center work. So I have experience teaching with part online, part face-to-face learning.

I won't rehash the many excellent Google Classroom resources available, but if you need a crash course in the basics, I recommend Shake Up Learning's blog posts on Google Classroom.

But even if you haven't use Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Moodle, or any other online learning platform, you can still do most of these activities for an online library class. For elementary library classes, specifically, here are 10 learning activities that students can do online or at home.

10 Library Activities for an Online Elementary Class

Reading

If at all possible, publish a schedule of when you'll be reading ahead of time so that students and parents can plan to join throughout the day.

For those worried about copyright, because it's live and should only be accessible through your school's online management tools (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology), it should fall under fair use and/or educational use.

Create a screencast of how to login to your ebook platform, and where students can find their password.

Screencast-O-Matic is my go-to tool for easily making how-to videos of my screen.

Show off any extra features that students might have forgotten, like adding notes, highlighting, and bookmarks.

Check with your ebook platform vendor to see if they have instructional videos you can use. We are using MackinVIA, and their resources page is linked here.

Make a screencast of how to login to Destiny so students can write reviews. Also, you may want to give students a checklist of what a good review includes, so you don't get 50 of them that all say "it was good" or "i liked it".

Destiny has to be configured to do this, and your tech department may need to tweak some settings to allow students to login or write reviews.

If you set reviews to "need approval" before being published, you can print or save a PDF of them with student names before you approve them to go live in Destiny.

READ MORE: Get a FREE sample checklist for writing reviews in Destiny or other library circulation software, and read how I use it to encourage peer feedback at my Book Review Writing library center.

Research & Inquiry

Even if you don't assign a question to answer, you can promote your library's databases by saying, "If you'd like to learn more about (book topic or connecting idea), check out (database name) on our library website.

Again, make a screencast of a "featured" database for each day, and highlight the best features or most interesting articles.

Students can report back their favorite fact they discovered, or answer a research question you assign.

You probably know that some parts of your website aren't known or visited much. Create a scavenger hunt for an "Easter egg" on your website.

An "Easter egg" could be an image or GIF that you place on the library website and change its location each day. A picture or drawing of your school's mascot might be a good place to start.

An activity like this might need a prize or a random winner announced or some external reward to participate. Even if long-term school closures become a reality, you can always mail out a bookmark very affordably. (I'm partial to scratch-and-sniff ones as prizes).

Digital Citizenship

Makerspace / STEAM

Items to start with: plastic straws, rubber bands, paper clips, string or dental floss, plastic utensils or chopsticks, cardboard tubes, scrap paper or post-it notes, etc.

Tools students might need supervision with: needle-nose pliers to bend paperclip wires, scissors for younger students.

This activity should be optional or one of several choices as we can't assume parents will give permission, or indeed will be there when the assignment is being done.

A fort with blankets, pillows, or bed sheets.

A tower with blocks or boxes

Other Activities

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Additionally, School Library Journal has also published an online learning resource list for librarians including many of the education companies who are offering some or all of their services for free.

Finally, if you aren't part of the Learning Librarians Facebook group, you should join! There are MANY excellent teacher-librarians there who are sharing and building lists like this one of activities to use when teaching remotely.

I hope my suggestions get your own creative juices flowing so that we can share our activities and begin this online learning adventure with confidence. Take care and stay healthy!

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Publishers adapt policies to help educators

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In an effort to help educators move to remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic, children's publishers are changing their policies on copyright infringement.

SLJ will update this as publishers release information.

As educators move to remote learning, many are worrying and wondering about reading books aloud online and possibly violating copyright laws. In response, many children's publishers have temporarily altered policies.

Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Children's Books, Macmillan, Little, Brown Young Readers, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Chronicle Kids, Candlewick, Lee and Low, HMH, Abrams, Holiday House, Disney Publishing, Crabtree Publishing, Lerner, and Peachtree have put out guidelines for use during the coronavirus pandemic that has shut down schools across the country.

Please see the messages from each publisher below.
Disney Publishing Worldwide
With the increase in school closures, and many schools transitioning to remote learning, Disney Publishing Worldwide has received numerous requests from teachers across the country asking for permission to post readings of books online for their students to access. We support the efforts of educators and librarians who wish to provide remote learning at this time. Our permission is limited to Disney Press titles. If you are not sure which category a book falls into, please reach out to us at the following address: Dina.Sherman@Disney.com.

We ask that if you read a Disney Press book online for your students that you follow a few short guidelines:

Please note at the beginning of the video that you are reading with permission from Disney Publishing Worldwide, and please note the title of the book.

Please only post your video through your school's private platform or through another closed group or platform with limited access for your students only.

Please delete your video or disable access by June 30, 2020.

Please send an email to Dina.Sherman@Disney.com with your name, school, city, state, and the title and of the book(s) you read online with a link to your video.

By posting a reading, you are agreeing to abide by the above guidelines.

These terms are in effect until June 30, 2020.

Please note that other organizations interested in posting videos of your Disney Press title reading will need to contact Dina.Sherman@Disney.com who will evaluate their request.

Thank you for all you are doing.

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In an effort to help educators move to remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic, children's publishers are changing their policies on copyright infringement. SLJ will update this as publishers release information. As educators move to remote learning, many are worrying and wondering about reading books aloud online and possibly violating copyright laws.

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Well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish speaker.

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Our first ever original story, about a bird and a whale and their shared love of little fish. Inspired by a song by Tom Waits, and an episode of Adventure Time.

The Three Little Pigs

The classic tale of shoddy building materials, DIY folly, and the perils of emparedados de tocino (a.k.a bacon sandwiches). No pigs or wolves were harmed in the making of this story.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Why you should probably lock your door when you go out for a walk, even if you live en medio de un gran bosque. Why are the three bowls of sopa different temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Science, is why.

Little Red Riding Hood

A deeply troubling investigation into what happens when you let your children walk somewhere alone: Caperucita Roja eats fresas, picks margaritas and talks to el Gran Lobo Feroz on the way to Grandma's house. (Warning: Contains highly improbable medical scenes.)

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High school is perhaps one of the biggest turning points of a person's life. Sure, there's still college after that, but not everyone gets the chance to move that stage forward.

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So here's a collection of 50 Podcasts that any high school student should listen to, categorized into the four general topics would help you focus on what you might choose to become in the years to come.
Academic Related Podcasts
Not everyone can be a History Buff, a Grammar Nazi, a Science Geek, or a Poetry enthusiast, but a person could try listening to one of these podcasts to have a bit more of new things learned from among every classes like Science, Math, English, History and Literature.

There are things that we can't just learn in a four walled classroom, which is why these podcasts could offer you more practical applications of the theories they discuss to you. Apart from that is you get to know more advance stuff that could help you appreciate learning these classes more.
General and Special Interest Podcasts
Everyone has their own sets of hobbies and interests. Some might be more of into arts (in all sorts of forms) or perhaps photography, or knitting and crocheting. Others might be interested in the latest innovations in technology. Others are superbly curious of how things work so they could make videos of it on YouTube. There are those out there who like stuff about Animals, the Universe, the Mind, Documentaries and Conspiracy Theories and so on and so forth.

So for the sake of having a lot of youngsters out there who are into several things, here's a list of podcasts for those various hobbies and interests.
Entrepreneurship
Isn't there a saying about starting up a business while you are young?

Whether you're into selling things for auction at eBay, or having garage sales on weekends, making homemade cookies and cupcakes for deliveries, it's about time you get to learn more on the techniques on how to make your business flourish into something bigger. Who knows if you could make your business your career if you decide not to go further into college.

Since it's never just about learning the theories about business, but having the ability to be quick and efficient in decision making, why not invest a bit of your time listening to pros on how they handle their business?
Inspirational & Motivational
There are plenty of days we feel down. High School is probably among those days when you feel like everything isn't going how you want them and that you feel like there's no point to all the things happening around you. Now, remember that people around you are having the same struggles too. Some of them have worse things to think and feel about themselves but they still push themselves to go on with their lives. Get to know their heartwarming stories that would tug on your heartstrings. Live by their examples and inspire others like how they inspired you.
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In recent weeks, COVID-19 has dramatically impacted schools, teachers, students and families around the globe. With schools experiencing closures, thousands of educators have been working tirelessly to support their students and keep them reading and learning at home.

Epic wants to help. We are offering FREE worldwide Remote Student Access to Epic through the end of the school year (June 30th, 2020), by teacher invitation - no credit card required. Families only need an invitation from their teacher to get started. Students will have anywhere, anytime access to the full Epic library on all devices (including web browsers, the iOS app and the Android app), and teachers can stay connected to their students by assigning books and collections and tracking reading activity and progress.

Sounds great! Can anyone get Remote Student Access??
Remote Student Access is only available by invitation from an educator. Individual families are not eligible for this offer if a child's teacher is not using Epic. The good news? Epic is always free to educators and educators can sign up for their free account in a matter of minutes by following the instructions below.

Educators must send each students' parent or guardian an invitation from the student roster page.

HOW TO GET STARTED
If you're already an active teacher on Epic:
Invite your families to sign up for free Remote Student Access from the roster page. Students should not use your class code to log in as they normally would. [ Please follow these detailed instructions.]

If you are a teacher not currently active on Epic, but already have an Epic account:
1. Sign in to your account. If you have forgotten your password, you can request a reset to be sent to the email associated with the account

2. Set up your student roster. It's easy to add your students via Google Classroom, or one by one. (See Instructions for adding students to your roster here.)

3. Invite your families from the student roster page. [ Detailed instructions here]

If you are a teacher new to Epic:
1. Open your account at https://www.getepic.com/educators . It's 100% free; all you need is a valid educator email

2. Sign in to your account

3. Set up your student roster. It's easy to add your students via Google Classroom, or one by one. (See Instructions for adding students to your roster here.)

4. Invite your families from the student roster page. [ Detailed instructions here]

What to expect after inviting student families:
1. Parents will receive an email, set up their account, and request permission to link to your classroom. You can track each student's access status and approve family linking requests on your roster page

2. You will receive an email confirmation once the family account is successfully linked

What does the Remote Student Access Experience include? Students can log on via a web browser on a desktop or laptop computer, or the Epic app on iOS or Android. The apps are free to download from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.

Students can access the full library of over 40,000 e-books, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes that is available to them in class. (Materials in Spanish, French and Chinese, too!)

Educators can assign a book, or collections of books, to individual students or to the entire class. Educators can monitor their students' reading activity via their student reading logs.
Additional resources and step-by-step instructions:
Do you know any educators who may be interested? Free access to Epic through June 30th, 2020 is available for all educators and their students. Feel free to share this blog post with them, or point them directly to https://www.getepic.com/educators .

As we navigate this situation together, we know that reading and consistency for students is incredibly important. As always, we're here for our community of educators. Join the conversation on our Facebook Educator page or via Twitter @epic4kids.

Be well and keep reading!
The Epic Team

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Teachers can post videos of themselves reading aloud from the Harry Potter books to children prevented from attending school

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Teachers can now post videos of themselves reading aloud from the Harry Potter books to children prevented from attending school because of the Covid-19 virus. This follows J.K. Rowling and her agents The Blair Partnership relaxing the usual copyright permissions required.

Teachers anywhere in the world are permitted to post videos of themselves reading from Harry Potter books 1-7 onto schools' secure networks or closed educational platforms from today until the end of the school year (or the end of July in southern hemisphere). A full set of Guidelines for Teachers are downloadable here.

The open licence for teachers is the first of several initiatives being planned to help bring Harry Potter to children at home, which will be announced shortly - watch this space for more details!

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In an effort to help educators move to remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic, children's publishers are changing their policies on copyright infringement.

SLJ will update this as publishers release information.

As educators move to remote learning, many are worrying and wondering about reading books aloud online and possibly violating copyright laws. In response, many children's publishers have temporarily altered policies.

Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Children's Books, Macmillan, Little, Brown Young Readers, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Candlewick, Lee and Low, and Lerner have all put out guidelines for use during the coronavirus pandemic that has shut down schools across the country.

Please see the messages from each publisher below.

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The Readorium team shares your deep concern about the serious impact that COVID-19 is having on our communities, schools, and children. We believe that science has never been more important to the future of our world, and that we need to make sure our young people are equipped to solve the problems that we all will face in the future. Readorium's mission is to give all students the tools they need to become independent, analytic readers and science enthusiasts.

We are humbled by, and deeply grateful for, the work you do. During this difficult time, we would like to help by offering our program for free to grade 3-8 teachers and students. With Readorium's automatically-adaptive program, you will be able to track student progress, guide learning, differentiate instruction, and meet objectives from a distance. Teachers and administrators can access student progress data 24/7 and download resources to ensure success. Readorium Rising Reader (grades 3-5) and Readorium Scholar (Grades 6-8) will run on all desktops, laptops, or tablets with internet connection.

Once you submit the following form for free access to Readorium, you will be sent a registration email and instructions to administer Readorium to your students. Please provide your school or district email. We are unable to grant access to a personal email address. If you are a parent, please visit our individual subscription page.

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Dear Friends in the Education Community, The Readorium team shares your deep concern about the serious impact that COVID-19 is having on our communities, schools, and children. We believe that science has never been more important to the future of our world, and that we need to make sure our young people are equipped to solve the problems that we all will face in the future.

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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

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Listen and learn about science, history, animals, music, and language, and then make that learning active with hands-on projects and activities.

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Starting this week, Kids Listen member podcasts - like What If World, Tumble Podcast, Noodle Loaf, The Past and the Curious, Cool Facts About Animals, The Good Words Podcast, Book Club for Kids, Little Bedtime Stories, Timestorm, Curious Kid Podcast, and Buttons & Figs - will bring you a podcast and an activity based on the episode.

Listen and learn about science, history, animals, music, and language, and then make that learning active with hands-on projects and activities. You'll find lesson description at the end of the podcast and, when available, links to printed materials right here.

You can find the Kids Listen Activity Podcast on iTunes here. Or search for it on whatever your favorite platform is!

Many of us are podcasters and parents. We know that there is a lot of uncertainty, particularly as schools and community cornerstones like libraries and community centers temporarily close. While we can't fill these spaces, we hope to at least put in a few bucketfulls.

We look forward to listening and learning together! Stay tuned!

Welcome to the Kids Listen Activity Podcast, a daily show from your friends at Kids Listen, a group of awesome podcasts for kids.

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Welcome to the award-winning KidLit TV! Go on an adventure in a world of stories with us! We’re a trusted resource for parents, teachers, and librarians. KidLit TV is a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award and one of the American Library Association’s Great Websites For Kids. KLTV is available in over 700,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. Meet our diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

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Hi friends! This is a Youtube Channel created and run by middle grade author Susan Tan, and made possible by an amazing community of children's book writers and illustrators. We wanted to do something to offer relief for parents and kids during these long days at home.

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Gale offers a variety resources for education, lifelong learning, and academic research. Whether you are looking for peer-reviewed articles; full-text magazines, newspapers, and eBooks; primary source documents; and videos or podcasts, Gale puts the right vetted content and tools at your fingertips!

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Gale offers a variety resources for education, lifelong learning, and academic research. Whether you are looking for peer-reviewed articles; full-text magazines, newspapers, and eBooks; primary source documents; and videos or podcasts, Gale puts the right vetted content and tools at your fingertips!

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An Introduction to Free Comics Lessons ✏️  Draw Every Day with JJK

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The activities below are available for free download, and are to be used in educational and/or private settings. They may not be used elsewhere or for other purposes (such as for profit) unless explicit permission is granted.
Below will find: Blank Comic Book Pages, Special Activities, "Finish This Story!" Story Starters, "How to Draw..." Instructions, "Finish This Comic!" Comics, and Drawing/Writing Prompts.
More activities are being added to this page regularly, so make sure to check back for more. And if you like the activities below, don't miss my activity books, GIVE THIS BOOK A TITLE and GIVE THIS BOOK A COVER, available wherever books are sold!
Click on the numbers below to find a variety of different blank comic book pages. Each number corresponds to a different arrangement of panels on the page. Print out a few of each, or a bunch of one kind, and make your own comic!

Special Activities

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"Finish This Story!" Story Starters

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"Finish This Comic!" Comics

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