Library & Digital Resources

• Media Literacy Lessons and Checkology
• NEW: Book Resumes in TeachingBooks
• AI: Imagining Story Setting with Text-Evidence Support Prompting

• 2023 School Library Average Book Prices
• Gamify the Classroom
• And...some Iowa trivia

Direct link to the newsletter: https://www.smore.com/n/m9gc6

a) Wall Lake

b) Lake Okoboji

c) Spirit Lake

These instructional materials focus on information and media literacy and feature lesson plans, infographics, posters, guides, and quizzes.

• Arguments & Evidence
• Be Health Informed
• Be the Editor
• Branded Content
• Harm & Distrust
• Citizen Watchdogs
• Conspiratorial Thinking
• Democracy’s Watchdog
• Evaluating Science-Based Claims
• InfoZones
• Introduction to Algorithms
• Making Sense of Data
• Misinformation
• Practicing Quality Journalism
• Power in Art: The Watchdog Role of Editorial Cartoons
• Press Freedoms Around the World
• First Amendment
• Understanding Bias
• What Is News?

Image: https://get.checkology.org/

a) the Missouri River

b) the few trees on the prairies

c) the longest continuous furrow ever plowed

Book Resumes include authoritative information about the books in your collections. Now within seconds you can produce and share a consistent, comprehensive report that includes full professional reviews, information about state and national award recognitions, reading levels, book samples, and so much more. It might be a handy time-saver for you.

To access Book Resumes:

• Sign in to TeachingBooks with your email
• Search for a title, and select the "book resume" option
• View, print, or share

Learn more at: TeachingBooks.net/BookResumes

Here’s a guest post from Caleb Wilson from the Ditch That Textbook site. Learn how to capture text and create AI prompts/questions to create visuals of stories students are reading. Suggested lesson plans are included that can be leveled up or down---target audience is middle school.

Visual image prompted from Robinson Crusoe.

Here's a guest blog from Ditch That Textbook on gamification. It's easier than you think to bring the fun and excitement of a game play in to your classroom. Whether it’s the latest video game craze, a beloved childhood board game or the local sports team they never miss watching, games are a fun and engaging topic. Learn more here.

a) remain true

b) refrigerator

c) bread of life

a) a tornado

b) a meteor

c) an earthquake

d) the Gold Rush

Here are the average book prices released in 2023, produced annually by SLJ in partnership with Follett and Baker & Taylor.

Q1. a) The ice pushes the boulders on the bottom of the lake to the shore, creating a wall.

Q2. c) Plowed from Dubuque to Iowa City so the pioneer families could follow it and not get lost.

Q3. a) remain true

Q4. b) a meteor

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