Stevens Library Media Center Newsletter

COMPTON-DREW LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER NEWSLETTER Volume 4, Issue 1 Fall 2014

Reading, wRiting & Ravioli Reading Incentive Program

Students are required to read 10 books or 500 pages and prepare a brief report on each book to be eligible for a free Pasta WELCOME BACK House dinner coupon. All reports must be Ms. L.D. Bell submitted by the last day of the month. If Library Media Specialist the last day of the month is a Saturday or The media center has many resources for Sunday, you must submit your reports on students and staff. If you like reading, playing a Friday. sport, singing, playing an instrument, dancing, Don’t forget the September 30, 2014 deadline and the October 31, 2014 poetry, or reading a mystery or novel visit the deadline. If you miss the September library and check out a book. Books are deadline try to reach the October deadline. available for a fourteen-day loan period. You If you read at least 250 pages by September 15 you should reach your goal of 500 may renew the book. pages. Will your name be listed in COME VISIT THE LIBRARY, SOON! September and October?

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E

2 Book It Reading Program 2 Update Your Library Account Remember you must read and report on at least 25 books this year. If you read at least 2 Where’s Your Dolphin 2.5 books each month for eight months and 3 Five Finger Rule 3 books for one month you will reach your 3 Raging Readers goal. All students who read 25 books will receive a “special prize”! 3 Quotes About Reading

Compton-Drew Library Media Center Newsletter 1 BOOK IT! Reading Program Where’s Your Dolphin?

Compton-Drew sixth grade students will participate in the Book it Reading Program this year. The Book it Reading Program begins October 1, 2014. Students who reach the monthly goals will be given a coupon for a free personal pan size Pizza Hut Pizza. How many dolphins will your room receive this year? Will your grade level receive the most dolphins? What is a dolphin?

Students who read and complete a written report on the book receive a dolphin that is displayed on the Mrs. Walker‘s Book Club bulletin board outside the library. The eighth grade dolphins are blue, seventh grade dolphins are tan and the sixth grade dolphins are pink.

DOLPHIN COUNT Please return your overdue th books. Update your library 6 grade – 31 Dolphins account, now. 7TH grade – 19 Dolphins 8th grade- 24 Dolphins

Where’s your dolphin?

Compton-Drew Library Media Center Newsletter Page 2 FIVE FINGER RULE QUOTES ABOUT READING When choosing a book, use the Five Finger Rule to help you find the right A book is a dream that you hold in your book! hand.

. Choose a book and read the first page or two. –Neil Gaiman

. Put one finger up for every word you don’t know. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. . If five of your fingers go up while reading, choose another book. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

. If only two or three fingers go up, you’ve found a “just right” book. There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book. –Josh Jameson

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. RAGING READERS –Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Compton-Drew sixth graders will be participating in the Raging Readers Any book that helps a child to form a habit of Program. This exciting program promotes reading, to make reading one of his deep and reading for fun. continuing needs, is good for him.

Students must read at least 300 pages in –Maya Angelou books, newspapers or magazines and record it on their reading chart. Students If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and must complete their reading between over again, there is no use in reading it at October 20th and December 3rd. all.

–Oscar Wilde

Compton-Drew Library Media Center Newsletter Page 3 The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. –W. Somerset Maugham

READ, READ, AND READ SOME MORE

L. D. BELL

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