Lincoln Library Buzz!!

📚🐅 CELEBRATING A LEGENDARY FIRST QUARTER! 🐅📚
The Legendary Lincoln High School Library
Dr. Harold W. Lang Sr. Library

What a GREAT start to the school year! 🎉📖 The Legendary Lincoln High School Library is celebrating a successful first quarter filled with opportunities to read, learn, explore, create, and discover!

A heartfelt THANK YOU to our amazing students, parents, staff, and community partners for your support, collaboration, and commitment to student success. Your partnership helps make our library a welcoming space where literacy thrives, curiosity grows, and lifelong learning begins.

As we move into the next quarter, we remain committed to fostering a strong culture of literacy, promoting a love of reading, expanding learning opportunities, and empowering every student to reach their fullest potential.

📚 Our Mission: To cultivate a welcoming and engaging learning environment where every student has the opportunity to read, explore, create, and discover.

💜🖤🤍 Together, we are building a community of literacy—one book, one reader, and one opportunity at a time!

Thank you for being part of our legendary journey. The first quarter was just the beginning, and we look forward to an even more impactful second quarter!

BE LEGENDARY! WE ARE THE MODEL! 🐅📚

Ms. Pipkin, LMS

📚✨ CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN ACTION! ✨📚

The Legendary Class of 2027 participated in Voter Registration right here in the Library! 🗳️📋

Our seniors had the opportunity to learn about the voter registration process and take an important step toward becoming informed and engaged members of their communities.

👏🏽 Shoutout to Ms. Slaughter for providing an informative presentation and supporting our seniors through the registration process!

🤝🏽 Special shoutout to Ms. Wyatt for the wonderful collaboration and helping make this learning experience possible!

When we connect literacy, civic education, and real-world learning, we empower students with knowledge that extends beyond the classroom.

💜📚 The Library is more than books—it is a place to LEARN, ENGAGE, CONNECT, and GROW!

🐯 Be Legendary!
Class of 2027 — Your Voice Matters!

💜✨ PEARLS FOR GIRLS HAS ARRIVED! ✨💜

SUPER EXCITED to officially launch Pearls for Girls, powered by Girl Scouts, at The Legendary Lincoln High School! 🎉👑 Sponsors are Ms. Pipkin, Ms. Favors, Ms. Atkinson, and Ms. Davis.

This exciting new club is designed to create a space where girls can LEARN, LEAD, GROW, and SHINE! 🌟

And what an AMAZING launch it was! 🎉

💜 48 GIRLS SHOWED UP FOR OUR LAUNCH MEETING! 💜

That is 48 young women ready to explore new possibilities, develop their gifts, build confidence, and discover what it means to lead with purpose!

✨ Pearls for Girls will focus on:
👑 Leadership Development
💎 Etiquette & Confidence
🧘🏽‍♀️ Self-Care & Wellness
🎨 Crafts & Creativity
👩🏽‍🍳 Cooking Experiences
🏋🏽‍♀️ Fitness & Healthy Living
🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindfulness
💄 Makeup & Beauty
👗 Fashion & Personal Style
🌟 New Adventures & Experiences
…and SO MUCH MORE!

This club is about more than activities—it is about creating experiences that empower girls to discover themselves, develop life skills, build meaningful relationships, and envision their future.

I cannot wait to see where this journey takes our Pearls for Girls! 💜✨

A special thank you to everyone who helped make our launch possible. The journey has officially begun!

🌟 Pearls for Girls: Where Girls Learn. Lead. Grow. Shine. 🌟

🐯💜 The Legendary Lincoln High School
Be Legendary!

Supporting high school students with reading requires a different approach than with younger children. At the high school level, it’s all about encouraging critical thinking, making connections to real-world topics, and helping them find joy or purpose in what they read.

1. Respect Their Reading Preferences

• Acknowledge Non-Traditional Formats: Graphic novels, audiobooks, manga, news articles, sports journals, and blogs are all valid forms of literacy. Listening to an audiobook while commuting or exercising still builds vocabulary and comprehension skills.

  
  

• Let Them Choose: High schoolers are already assigned a lot of mandatory reading. Granting them complete freedom over their personal reading choices builds autonomy and intrinsic motivation.

  
  

2. Integrate Reading Into Daily Life

• Discuss Current Events: Share interesting news articles, editorial opinions, or podcast clips with your teen. Ask open-ended questions like, "What's your take on this issue?" or "How do you think this affects our community?"

  
  

• Model Reading at Home: Let your teen see you reading books, magazines, or long-form articles. Having printed reading material visible around the house creates an environment where reading feels natural and valued.

  
  

3. Support Academic & Coursework Reading

• Help Break Down Complex Texts: When teens face challenging literature or heavy textbook chapters, encourage strategies like previewing headings, summarizing each section in one sentence, or breaking the reading into 15–20 minute chunks.

  
  

• Ask Thinking Questions, Not Test Questions: Instead of quizzing them on plot details, ask reflective questions about their assigned books:

  
  

  • "Which character do you relate to or dislike the most, and why?"

    
    

  • "Does this book's theme feel relevant today?"

    
    

  • "If you were writing the ending, how would you change it?"

    
    

4. Connect Books to Other Media

• Book-to-Screen Movie Nights: Read a book or play together (or alongside each other) and watch the film adaptation afterward. Discuss what was changed, cut, or improved in the movie.

  
  

• Explore Real-World Connections: If they are reading historical fiction or non-fiction, connect it to documentaries, podcasts, or museum visits to make the context come alive.

  
  

5. Leverage Library & Digital Resources

• Utilize School & Public Libraries: Encourage your teen to ask their school librarian (like Ms. Pipkin!) for personalized recommendations based on their interests.

  
  

• Use Free e-Book Apps: Introduce apps like Libby or Hoopla (connected to your public library card) so they can download e-books and audiobooks directly to their smartphones or devices.

We hope you thoroughly enjoyed your latest library book!

To ensure all of our students continue to have access to our full collection, please remember to return your finished books to the library at your earliest convenience. Once your returned book is checked in, I am is ready to help you discover and check out your next great read.

Thank you for being an active part of our reading community!

#TigerPride #LincolnHigh #SchoolLibrary #KeepReading

1. Sora Ebooks(Access via Clever)
2. Search for Sora
3. Select a Book
4. Read
5. Return
6. Repeat

1. Reading Nook

2. Art Create and Read

3. Game Zone

4. Studio

5. Makerspace

6. Starbooks Cafe

7. Wellness Vibe

8. IPrint

1st/5th, Advisory, 3rd/7th, 4th/8th

Tuesdays/Thursdays

Lunch-A,B,C

After School

Tuesdays/Thursdays 4:45pm-5:30pm

1. Build an Active Reading Strategy

• Annotate as You Read: Keep a pencil, sticky notes, or a digital highlighter handy. Mark key points, write quick reactions in the margins, and highlight unknown vocabulary words.

  
  

• Practice the SQ3R Method: Before diving in, Survey the text (headings and images), formulate Questions, Read actively, Recite main takeaways, and Review the material immediately after.

  
  

• Pause and Summarize: At the end of every chapter or major section, write a one-sentence summary in your own words to check for comprehension.

  
  

2. Tailor Strategies to the Text Type

• For Textbooks & Non-Fiction: Pay close attention to bolded terms, chapter summaries, sidebars, and graphic organizers. Read the end-of-chapter questions before reading the text to know what key facts to look out for.

  
  

• For Fiction & Literature: Map out character motivations, recurring themes, symbols, and plot structures. Keep a simple character chart to track relationships in complex novels.

  
  

• For Articles & Research Papers: Read the abstract, introduction, and conclusion first to grab the thesis before working through the technical body paragraphs.

  
  

3. Boost Vocabulary & Retention

• Use Context Clues: Try to deduce a word's meaning from the surrounding sentence before looking it up in a dictionary.

  
  

• Keep a Vocab Journal: Maintain a digital list or index card deck of new words you encounter across different subjects.

  
  

• Connect Ideas to Real-World Concepts: Relate what you read to historical events, personal experiences, or current news to build stronger memory neural paths.

  
  

4. Create an Optimal Reading Environment

• Eliminate Digital Distractions: Put your phone on "Do Not Disturb" or leave it in another room while tackling required reading.

  
  

• Use the Pomodoro Technique: Read uninterrupted for 25 minutes, then take a 5-minute break to process the information and rest your eyes.

  
  

• Read Out Loud: When encountering dense academic prose or complex poetry, reading passages aloud helps with auditory processing and focus.

• Novelist Plus
• PBS Learning Media
• Teaching Books
• World Book

📚 5 Literacy Tips for High School Students

1. READ SOMETHING EVERY DAY 📖
Even 10–15 minutes of reading each day can strengthen your vocabulary, comprehension, and focus. Choose something you actually enjoy!

2. DON’T SKIP THE WORDS YOU DON’T KNOW 🔎
When you encounter an unfamiliar word, pause and use the context, a dictionary, or an online resource to figure out what it means.

3. ASK QUESTIONS 🤔
Good readers are curious readers! Ask yourself: What is the author trying to say? Why is this important? What evidence supports this idea?

4. WRITE IT DOWN ✍🏾
Take notes, highlight important information, summarize what you read, and write down your thoughts. Writing helps you remember and understand what you read.

5. EXPLORE DIFFERENT GENRES 🌎📚
Don't limit yourself to one type of book. Try mystery, fantasy, science fiction, biography, historical fiction, romance, nonfiction, graphic novels, and more. Your next favorite book may be in a genre you've never tried!

🐯 TIGER LITERACY CHALLENGE

Read it. Question it. Write about it. Explore it. SHARE IT!

Every page you read builds the reader—and the future—you are becoming! 💜🖤🤍📚

Ms. Pipkin, LMS
The Legendary Lincoln High School 💜🖤

Ms. Pipkin, LMS

Email: vpipkin@dallasisd.org

972-749-7600