Literacy+Connection


 * Overview:** Today's digital world requires students to acquire mutlitple literacies to be able to communicate, collaborate, think critically and create. This session will explore some of the eresources and tools available to help you guide those connections for your students.

From Angela Maiers - [|New Media Literacies] The Daring Librarian - Gwyneth Anne Bronwynne Jones [|Twitter Style Book Reviews] A Novel About Life Online - [|Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky] Comics and Reviews [|Unshelved] (**It's a Book** by Lane Smith) From Sherman Alexie - [|Why the Best Kids Books are Written in Blood]
 * What is Literacy?**


 * Readers' Advisory and eResources**

SD Elementary Reading Awards [|Prairie Bud & Prairie Pasque]

SD MS/HS Reading Award [|YARP Young Adult Reading Program]

SDSL Jasmine Rockwell's YA Review Blog [|No Vampires Allowed]

Study Guides for SD Authors/Themes [|SD Book Bag]

National Award Winners and Other Lists [|More Book Awards]

eBooks & eReaders [|10 Websites to Download Free eBooks]

FictFact: Track Your Series [|FictFact]

Sites for Books & Readers: search, track, share, discuss [|Shelfari] [|GoodReads]

YALSA Review Blog [|The Hub: Your Connection to Teen Reads]

More than Book Fairs: Kids, Parents and Educators [|Scholastic]

International Reading Association & NCTE [|ReadWriteThink]

Lexile Levels [|SDDOE Lexile Framework for Reading] [|MetaMetrics Lexile Find a Book]

Google Reading Levels [|Google Advanced Search]