Summary: "Kids will build confidence all summer long as they master early literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids to: Stay motivated to read; Maintain reading skills and avoid summer slide; Get excited about using the library; Keep discovering and learning all summer long."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD LANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD LANSummary: "Kids will build confidence all summer long as they master early literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids to: Stay motivated to read; Maintain reading skills and avoid summer slide; Get excited about using the library; Keep discovering and learning all summer long."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD PATVu, Don
Summary: Award-winning principal and literacy advocate Don Vu examines six conditions of a school’s culture of literacy (Commitment, Collection, Clock, Conversation, Connection, and Celebration), showing how to create an environment where all students—especially immigrant and refugee children—can thrive. Vu’s work is a testament to the transformative power of reading—a key to opening the door for all to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 302.2244 VUBailey, Tracy Swinton
Summary: "An intimate look at America's historically rooted struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children, and a call to action to those in positions of power who are able to open doors of opportunity. You wouldn't guess it by listening to our elected officials, but education is the civil rights issue of our day. At the root of every important problem we face, from mass incarceration to income...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 BAISheen, Barbara
Summary: "Fake news is a . . . problem that affects everyone. It can undermine democracies, negatively impact public health, and destroy reputations. How fake news spreads, the problems fake news causes, how to recognize and keep from spreading it are discussed"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.23 SHEPizzoli, Greg
Summary: The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Booth, Char
Summary: Whether or not "instruction" appears in their job titles, librarians are often in the position of educating their users, colleagues, and peers to successfully locate and evaluate information. Because MLIS education tends to offer less-than-comprehensive preparation in pedagogy and instructional design, this book tackles the challenge of effective teaching and training head-on. In this book the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Library Association 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.7 BOORusick, Jessica
Summary: "In this title, readers learn common symptoms and behaviors of dyslexia and how it affects kids at school and in relationships. Text includes suggestions on how to be a kind and respectful friend to someone who has dyslexia and appropriate activities kids can enjoy together. A famous person who has overcome the challenges of dyslexia is highlighted."--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.914 RUSSummary: "Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long!"
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD POWSummary: "Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad."
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD RISSummary: "Kids will build confidence all summer long as they master early literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids to: Stay motivated to read ; Maintain reading skills and avoid summer slide ; Get excited about using the library ; Keep discovering and learning all summer long."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Herman, Amy
Summary: "Art historian Amy Herman has trained experts from many fields how to perceive and communicate better. By showing people how to look closely at images, she helps them hone their 'visual intelligence', a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use properly. Whether you want to be more effective on the job, more empathetic toward your loved ones, or more alert to the trove of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 152.14 HERKeller, Shana
Summary: "Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUMackintosh, David
Summary: Every year, I stay in the same cabin at the beach with my family, and every year Chicken Smith's here too, with his Dad and his dog, Jelly. But this year, something's different." As we hang on the words of the narrator, we learn of the legendary Chicken Smith and the beachside town that has been the backdrop to their school-holiday adventures for years. But will Chicken Smith turn up this year?...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: Tracing the spread of misinformation and disinformation through our fast-moving media landscape, a journalist, scientist, medical professional, and professor gives readers the skills to identify and counter poorly sourced clickbait and misleading headlines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.23 YASSummary: "These interactive activities will help kids learn about everything from emotions and healthy habits to education fundamentals. Recognize letters, colors, and shapes; Practice creative problem solving; Discover different emotions; Develop reading, writing, and spelling skills."--Publisher description.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Kids will build a solid foundation of letter, word, and reading skills with these interactive games, challenges, and stories. Learn basic reading skills; Practice spelling hundreds of words; Master upper and lowercase letters; Improve letter and word pronunciation."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "These award-winning books, games, and activities will help kids learn everything from letter recognition and letter sounds, to spelling, vocabulary, and independent reading. This pack includes apps that have won industry awards including a Family Choice Award, a Kapi Award for innovation in children's media, a Parent's Choice Award and more. Practice consonant sounds and blends; Read along...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Kids will stay engaged with learning all summer long with these interactive learning games and books. Develop language skills and vocabulary; Enhance math skills; Learn about healthy habits; Explore historical facts."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Warning: choking hazard--small parts. Not for children under 3 years.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "We're stepping into animal territory! These wild adventures come to life in engaging and interactive digital book apps that will excite young readers, teach literacy fundamentals and boost reading confidence. Encourage literacy skills with highlighted narration; Follow along with three fun ways to read; Learn new vocabulary with tappable text; Tap objects and hear their name read aloud"--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD SMICleaver, Samantha
Summary: "Raising an Active Reader explains research on reading aloud with children who are in early elementary school (grades K-3). Upon completion, adults will know how read aloud works for children who are learning to read, and how the ABCs of Active Reading (Ask questions, Build vocabulary, and make Connections) build important reading skills"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 372.4 CLEDias, Marley (Marley Emerson)
Summary: The young organizer of the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign explores the power of activism, drawing on her personal experiences to counsel readers on how they can work together to make positive changes in their communities in the areas of literacy and diversity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DIAMcMullan, Kate
Summary: A rhyming survey of a number of animals and how they rest or go to sleep, leading up to a child's own experience of going to bed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019