SMSD Library At-Home Resources

Library, Reading, and Maker Related Resources

Link Description/Directions/Explanation Spanish Children’s Stories Well-known children's stories translated into https://www.thespanishexperiment.com /stories Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish speaker. Storyline Online Streaming videos featuring celebrated actors https://www.storylineonline.net/library/ reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more. ABDO Digital Collection High quality eBook content searchable by grade https://abdodigital.com/ level, genre and format KidLit TV A diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, https://kidlit.tv/category/read-out-loud/ 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. Aiden Tyler, Quaran-TEEN A weekly webcast “serial” with author Rex Ogle, https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/quaran-teen every Tuesday at 2pm ET/ 1pm CT. Join in, as Rex shares Aiden's story that's full of laughs, facts, hearts, and farts. Harper Kids Read Alouds Authors from HarperKids publisher reading their https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi works online (YouTube channel) YzMwyBPG96EDjV7MAohaCnXoQnqiBmG Brightly Online Brightly, a Penguin Random House Company, https://www.readbrightly.com/topics/brigh tly- presents read alouds from their collection. storytime/ Storytime with Bill from Little Brown Books Publisher Little, Brown Young Readers presents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGGyits videos of some books in their read aloud qvj 5Z-sVQ_btrTftbVofgE6wWG (YouTube Channel)

Unite for Literacy Access to more than 400 original picture books, https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/ one fourth of them written in Spanish. The digital books provide audio narrations in more than 40 languages, spoken by native speakers in warm, expressive voices. Story from Space A project of the Global Space Education https://storytimefromspace.com/library/ Foundation, children’s books are sent into space to the International Space Station. While in space, astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth.

Draw Every Day with Jarrett J. Krosoczka Live lessons every with National Book Award https://www.youtube.com/studiojjk finalist author/illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka @ 12:00pm CST. Videos are saved for future viewing. (YouTube Channel) Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can L14hRqd0PELGbKihHuTqx_pbvCLqGbOkF draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks. Grab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons and join Mo to explore ways of writing and making together. New episodes will be posted each weekday at 12:00 p.m. CST (YouTube Channel) Scholastic Learn at Home Scholastic Learn at Home offers open access to https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/sup daily learning journeys divided into four grade port/learnathome.html spans—Pre-K–K, Grades 1–2, Grades 3–5, and Grades 6–9+, covering ELA, STEM, Science, Social Studies, and Social-Emotional Learning. Login credentials that may be freely shared: username: Learning20 password: Clifford STEAM Makerspace Challenges STEAM makerspace challenges such as “Can you https://www.makermaven.net/steam-challenges fit through an index card?”, “How far can your straw rocket travel?” and “How many drops of water can you put on a penny?” 30 Days of Lego Challenges Challenge students to create something new with https://thatbricklife.com/lego-challenge-30-days- LEGO bricks. of-play-calendar/?fbclid=IwAR1Is1A-7QEqt0vjw- MhnqWpYEl8Mo47VZksf51Xb8aG57Aa_k7ixKFO HVo BTSB Educational Resources for At Home Bound to Stay Bound resources specialist team Learning compiled a list of academic resources for https://www.btsb.com/educational-resources- students while they learn from home. main-tab-landing-page/