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Library
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When does my child visit the
library?
Kindergarten
students will visit the library on
Thursday mornings.
1st grade
classes visit the library on Thursday afternoons .
2nd grade
students will have library time on
Tuesday afternoon.
3rd grade
classes are scheduled to visit the library on Wednesday afternoons.
Students in
grades
4 to 8
do not have scheduled library times. St. Francis School has an open
library policy; meaning students are encouraged to use the library any
time of the day for browsing, research and checkout.
What is the
library’s checkout policy?
Books are checked out for two weeks; however, students are encouraged
to return their books as soon as they have finished reading them. Books
may be returned any day of the week. There are no overdue fines, but if
your child has two or more overdue books, he/she will be asked to wait
until those books are returned before checking out another. Overdue
notices (if needed) will be sent home on a weekly basis. Please send an
email if you have any questions or concerns about overdue
materials.
Encourage your child to read
Every adult
needs to be a book advocate for children! Don’t be afraid to affirm a
child when you see them reading a book – be it in a waiting room, the
car line, the swimming pool, or cuddled up in bed. Your comments and
conversation could change a reader’s life in many ways.
Our world is
populated by literal readers (children and adults) who read to find
answers, pass tests, fulfill assignments, or to practice the reading
process. We need readers who are thinkers! Why read aloud or alone?
Reading advocate, librarian, and author Judy Freeman (Books Kids Will
Sit Still For 3) suggests 13 great reasons.
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To bond together,
either one on one, as parent and child, or together as part of a
larger group.
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To figure out
how to handle new, difficult or challenging life situations.
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To open up a
global window and see how people do things in other parts of the
world.
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To visualize
text and stories and exercise the mind’s eye or imagination.
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To develop
empathy, tolerance, and understanding.
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To grow
language skills, exploring narrative dialogue, the use of language,
vocabulary, and the relationship between the written and spoken word.
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To better
recall and comprehend the narrative structures, plot elements, and
sequence in a story.
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To be exposed
to eloquent, elegant, interesting, or unusual examples of language,
writing styles, and words, and to hear the author’s “voice” out loud,
spoken with expression and fluency.
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To share
emotions, from laughter to tears.
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To develop critical thinking skills:
making inferences, drawing conclusions, identifying key words and ideas,
comparing and contrasting, recognizing cause and effect, sequencing and
defining problems versus solutions.
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To experience sheer
enjoyment and love of stories, both old favorites and brand-new ones,
for their own sake.
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To hone writing skills. As
children’s author Richard Peck writes in Past, Perfect, Present
Tense: New and Collected Stories, “Nobody but a reader can ever
become a writer …you have to read a thousand stories before you can
write one…we write by the light of every story we ever read. Reading
other people’s stories shows you the way to your own.”
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To grow from an
avid listener into an avid reader, learner, and thinker!
Be a reading model for the children
in your life!
Iowa Public Libraries
ACC. READER. ON-LINE DATABASE
Click on the Link below to search the SFA Library Accelerated Reader
List
By Book Level
Iowa Public Libraries
ACC. READER.
ON-LINE DATABASE
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