LinksPlus Online
* For Primary KS2
* The searchable online database with thousands of teacher-reviewed, approved and annotated web sites
* Ensures that web searching is fast, focused and fruitful
* Updated termly
* Sites are selected for relevance to the primary curriculum
* Easy to search by key word, learning area and category
* Accessible as a bookmark or hot-link. Access can be by IP Address
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LinksPlus MARC
* For Primary KS2
* Comprehensive quarterly directory of the web sites most frequently requested by learners when researching in the library
* About 200 up to date and relevant web sites are added each term
* Each site is annotated and placed under a school subject heading
* Sites are carefully chosen for their educational relevance
* Can be loaded into a school library catalogue that accepts USMARC records
* Each term the whole file is updated
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LinksPlus Marc
Subscription sample: To download a sample in MARC format, right click on either volcanoes.zip or the self-extracting LPMsample.exe and choose "save".
Key library subjects with classification numbers (eg Sport 796). 'Ideal' - Junior Education
885 x 635mm.
Library Codecracker Full Colour Wall Chart £1.95 + vat
Great Library Ideas
Tried & tested tips & techniques by school librarians
This essential copiable resource is jam packed with lively and successful ideas to make the most of the library/LRC and put it right at the heart of the school.
Most of the ideas can be easily adapted to different abilities and ages from 8-16. They range from one-off lessons to extended projects. Each idea is fully described and most include a copiable worksheet.
Watch a short preview of Great Library Ideas
‘A fantastic resource, packed with interesting suggestions’ Jennifer Toerien, Mount St Mary's College, Spinkhill
‘I love Great Library Ideas - a treasure chest of good ideas for busy school librarians. It's a winner!’Geoff Dubber, Vice Chair, School Library Association
‘Fantastic and inspirational ideas’Ann Hannam, Sherburn High, Leeds
Ideas include:
Networking without wires
Mystery Gift
Best Borrowers
Book Menus
Desert Island Books
Book Walls
Send a Text Message to a Book Character
Book Ends
Non Fiction Detective
Guess the Genre
Find a Fact
The Shakespeare Reading Game
The Dewey Game
Mission Possible
Murder in the Library
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Library Treasure Hunt Bingo
What Do We Read?
Web Versus Books
Take a Book by its Cover
The Lateral Thinking Game
Read a Rainbow
Speed Dating
Blind Date Reads
Loyalty Card Scheme
Create a Learning Climate
Around the World in Fiction
Primary to Secondary Transition Project
Dewey Jumble Sale
Book Factor
Stepping Stones
Look for a Book Challenge
101 Reasons to Read a Book
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The Library Book
Getting to know its secrets
* introduces Y5 and above (age 10+) to the school library
* lesson plans in the style of the National Literacy Strategy
* many & varied activities - often cross-curricular
* copiable
Each school has to decide how best to plan and deliver pupils' introduction to the library. This book covers key areas: finding your way round the library; finding fiction; the classification system; the subject index; alphabetical order skills; dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias; library test; different styles of writing and reading; refining your search; resources other than books; role of the librarian; libraries nationwide. By Priscilla Bishop. 138pp
The Library Book £17.50
Quirky
quizzes for lively libraries
* Hundreds of questions to challenge Y6 pupils
* Instant, photocopiable, no preparation needed!
Two books with quizzes and puzzles from many learning areas to develop
and practise research skills. Requires a range of reference sources including
encyclopaedias, dictionaries, atlases and internet search engines to find
answers.
48pp each, £17.50, both vols for £29.95.
Quirky quizzes for lively libraries VOL 1 £17.50
Quirky quizzes for lively libraries VOL 2 £17.50
Special Offer, buy Both Volumes for £29.95
The
Reading Game A runaway success!
* A sure-fire way to get children reading from age 8 upwards
* Quick & easy to set up
* Gripping and highly motivating
* Any number can play
* Introduces fiction genres
* Instantly adapted to any library / LRC
* Encourages wide reading
* Extremely flexible
* For both fiction and non fiction
* A must for Reading Clubs
'All the children's comments were positive e.g. enjoyable, fun, would like to do it again with different genres, found out there were good books in every genre, would like to read some of the books, etc. The Reading Game is very successful in introducing children to a range of good books, reinforcing their understanding of genre, developing good quality discussion and evaluation and whetting their appetites to read. It can easily be adapted to the requirements of the 'Literacy Hour', to a general English lesson, as well as to the Library activity for which it was first developed. I will definitely use it regularly.' NATE (National Association for the Teaching of English)
'Fast, noisy and fun. It can be useful for teaching pupils about the division of books into different genres and encouraging them to try ones they wouldn't normally consider.'
TES
'Fantastic'Margaret
Drinkwater, School Library Service Manager, Leeds
HMIE Scotland have produced a short film about the Reading Game (originally called the Genre Game). You can view this in the Good Practice section of their web site : http://www.hmie.gov.uk/
The Reading Game Primary offer: Save £5. Only £32.50 + vat (2 copies £57.50, save £7.50) + vat
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* uses NASA satellite imagery
* the most visually authentic world replicas available
* comes with 20 page handbook full of Earth facts, fun and games
Order an EarthBall today and 'Give them the World!'
Inflatable, diameter: 40cm, 16".
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Peters
World Map
Full colour map. Countries are shown in their correct proportions: usually
Europe appears much larger than South America - though it is only half
the size! Laminated easy-clean format.
The Library Book
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Weblinks presentation 
Go To Section
Ziptales 
Finding Information Poster
Library
Codecracker Full Colour Wall Chart
Quirky
quizzes for lively libraries
The
Reading Game 
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The Group Games Databse CD ROM 
New stunning globes 
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World Map