Library Games, Library Skills and activities

• Authors - various lists of websites and birthdates
  • Better Book jackets author webquest - Duffy Libary
  • Meet the Authors - video clips from Barnes& Noble
    • Video interviews - Reading Rockets
  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Authors' names
• Books - History of books with Picture Books
  • Historical Bookarts Collection - history of printing, books, illustrations
  • History of Pop-Up books
  • How a book is made - Aliki - How a books is made - Penguin FLASH
    • Publishing a book - ThinkQuest
• NYTimes best illustrated books 2007
• Page by page: creating a children's book Canadian books School and Zoom Upstream
• Parts of a book 1 Quia matching, concentration game, wordsearch
• Parts of a book 2 Quia hangman
• Parts of a book - 3rd grade - Quia hangman
• Parts of a book - Emerson Memorial School
  • Who am I?
• Parts of a Book powerpoint - Jordan
• Title page - OSLIS
• Fiction OR nonfiction? Quia popup review
• Books and more - True or False? Quia popup review
• Book arrangement - Fiction OR Where can I find...?
• Caldecott awards
  • Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature - digitized 19th century books
  • Children'sLiterature Navigator
    • Illustrators
  • Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
  • Fairrosa list of authors and illustrators
  • Historical Collection from Curriculum Library's Historical Collection - Milwaukee
  • Mazza Museum - International Art from Picture Books
    • Virtual Tour - history of illustration and types
  • Media used in the Caldecotts 1938-2004
  • Picturing Books - illustrations, formats - look under Using Picture Books
    • history, timeline, evaluating books, parts of a picture books and more
  • Picture Book illustrations webquest
  • Picturing Childhood evolution of the illustrated children's book - UCLA
  • Teaching with illustrators - Scholastic - closeups and realtime video - Dinosaurs of Hawkins by Selznick and The night eaters by Eva Juan
• Call Numbers - what is a call number
  • Where do they go? - in what section do these call numbers go?
  • What is the AUTHOR part? - match the author with the call number
  • How are they arranged on the shelf? OR Where can I find...? Emerson
  • Call number order 2
  • Call number order 3
  • Call number order 4 - choose the set with the books in the correct order
  • Where do I belong? Emerson Memorial
• Caring for books
  • How to take care of library books http://www.dixie.fayette.k12.ky.us/
  • No, No Never caring for books
• Catalog - Using the Library Catalog
  • Author search
  • How to search1
  • How to search2
• Dewey Decimal System
  • Book Disaster - or Dewey SWAT to the rescue - webquest
  • CyberDewey- a directory of websites by the Dewey Decimal System
  • Dewey search at Kids Click links listed by Dewey Decimal System
  • Dewey Browse
  • Dewey Challenge Game for a Dewey Master Medal
  • Dewey - Choose a Level 1, 2, 3 Thrall
  • Dewey Decimal Classification system - PowerPoint from Echold Mertz Elementary Scool presented to 2nd and 3rd grade students
  • Dewey Decimal Hotlist for librarians - list of links
  • Dewey Decimal System Quia Matching Cards and Concentration
    • Dewey Decimal System worksheet
  • Dewey Decimal System OCLC tour plus quiz
  • Dewey Decimal System webquest
  • Dewey Decimal System webquest - Brad Foster, Tech Academy
  • Dewey Directory - pictures for numbers - Derby Ridge Elementary,MO
  • Dewey game (Bardonia Elementary school)
  • Dewey Rap!! Joan McElfresh - Montgomery Country Public Schools, MD
  • Dewey Wildlife 590 explanation powerpoint
  • Do we really know Dewey?
    • Dewey and the Alien story
    • Difference between Fiction and NonFiction
  • How Melvil Dewy inveneted the Dewey decimal system in just one day -ppt
  • How the Dewey Decimal System works - explains subsections of 500s
  • Library Labyrinth - Brooklyn Expedition
    • Dewey Questions - explanation of Dewey Decimal System
    • Dewey Derby - guess the Dewey Decimal number
  • Story about the Dewey Decicmal System of Classification Anacortes (caveman)
    • Dewey Hunt #1
    • Dewey Hunt #2
    • Dewey Hunt #3
  • Understanding the logic - OSLIS explanation of the Dewey hierarchy
    • Locating a book with longer Dewey numbers
  • Where can I find ...? Dewey System - Emerson, NJ
    • Number order challenge
• Flood: the library has sprung a leak! putting books in subject categories (keywords)
  • Internet search challenges - 21st Century Information Fluency
  • Keyword challenge interactive game to choose level of keywords - 21st Century Information Fluency
  • Live Search challenges
  • Word Association games :Soccer Challenges- synonyms, more specific, etc.
• Genre - Name that genre game - Genre posters PDF
  • Books, books, books Quia hangman game
  • Folklore
  • Kamishibai - Japanese folk tales
  • Poetry
  • Trickster Tales
• Interactive activities - ReadWriteThink.org
  • Alphabet organizer
  • Book cover creator
  • Book cover guide
  • Character trading cards
  • Literary elements map
  • Printing press - make brochures, newspapers, advertisements
  • Timelines
• Internet
  • Choose the best web site - Quia pop up game
  • Choose the web page address - Quia matching game
  • Evaluation
    • QUICK - QUality Information ChecKlist
    • QUICK Quiz
  • History of the Internet - Kennedy Middle School
    • Quiz
  • Internet Terminology
    • Internet Terminology Quia matching cards and concentration game
    • Internet Terminology - Quia hangman game
  • Subject Directories
  • URLs - what they are
    • URLs - main page and web page you hit (Wright Brothers)
  • WayBack Machine - searches old web sites
• Library History Timeline - Acadia
  • History of Libraries - exstensive webpage from Greece
  • Libraries - powerpoint - U NC
  • Library History website - LibraryHistoryBuff.org
    • Bookmobile / traveling libraries history - and on postage stamps
• Library lingo Quia jeopardy type review game
  • Library lingo - 5th grade
• Library Orientation New Orleans Public Library hyperlinked story
  • Library Skills Orientation - Bruceton Library - powerpoint
• Mapping - Longitude and latitude
• Newbery books - PowerPoint from Dixie Elementary
• Nonfiction
  • Fact fragment frenzy - interactive on note taking-ReadWriteThink.org
  • Hints on Print - interactive-choosing nonfiction for research -ReadWriteThink.org
• Orientation
  • LaJoya powerpoint
• Plagiarism What it is and how to Recognize and Avoid it
• Reference
  • Reference Choice 1 Quia hangman
  • Reference Choice 2 Quia popup
  • Reference Choice 3- which one? Quia popup review
  • Research Skills game - choose the best resource interactive game - Carnegie Mellon
  • Which book - Information finder - choose the best book game
• Songs -
  • "I'm going down to the library" - Lakeshore Road Elementary NY w/music
  • R - E - A - D - to the tune of YMCA - from Teachingheart.net
• Words and word games
  • Dictionary game
    • FakeOut! try to avoid being “faked out” by choosing the correct definitions
    • Guide words game
  • Grammar Gorillas - FunBrain
  • Idioms with interactive sites and games
    • Etymologic - game of word origins
    • Oxymoron list
  • Punctuation game - Eats, Shoots and leaves - commas and apostrophes
  • Spell check - Fun Brain
    • Look, Cover, Check - online spelling check
    • Quizville.com -- type in G5words in blank box - or appropriate grade level to begin
    • SpellaRoo - Fun Brain
  • Thesaurus
  • Antonyms game Sadlier
  • Antonym practice Longman
  • Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms Sadlier Phonics and word study center
  • Synonym practice Longman
  • Visual Thesaurus
  • Word Central.com
  • Wacky Web Tales - add words to make
  • Wordgames.com
    • Make a Word - see how many words you can make
    • Word Builder - based on Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary - click on grade level and unit