WELCOME TO THE
MYRTLE PHILIP COMMUNITY SCHOOL LIBRARY
Kim Wallace ~ Teacher Librarian
Dawn Walsh ~ Library Assistant
Myrtle Philip Library Mission:
We want to encourage all students to love books and reading for pleasure.
The purpose of the Myrtle Philip School library program is to assist individuals in becoming life-long learners and critical thinkers. The ability to locate, select, evaluate and use ideas and information effectively is crucial to a student’s academic success. The library endeavors to be an attractive and stimulating environment which encourages the learner to explore, investigate, experiment, and take risks.
The goals of our library program are:
To connect books with students
To create avid and competent readers as well as life-long learners
To create information literate students (including incorporating information technology)
To teach digital citizenship
To collaboratively provide learning opportunities which reflect the educational goals of our school while satisfying provincial curriculum
It is the responsibility and aim of the elementary library program to provide a well-rounded range of relevant and timely learning resources to staff and students. We strive to maintain a collection of high quality materials of varying levels of difficulty that reflect contemporary interests and support the BC curriculum while at the same time supporting a varied cultural heritage.
Library News
It is so lovely to see all your smiling faces! I love hearing about the new books you are reading!
Our school focus this year is on KINDNESS. Mrs. Wallace will be looking for acts of kindness in the library and throughout the school. Some of our literature focus this year will be involving all types of kindness.
The Red Cedar Book Club (Grades 6-7) has begun! The Red Cedar Award is British Columbia's Young Readers Choice book award. Red Cedar members are expected to read at least five of the titles nominated in either the fiction or non-fiction category over the next few months. In May, they will vote for the one that they think is the best Canadian book of the year.
Our Grade 4 and 5 students who have chosen to participate in the Reading Link Challenge, in collaboration with the Whistler Public Library, are also busily reading their six books! Once they are finished, the students will be divided into teams which will compete against each other in a series of Jeopardy style games.
20 Ways to GROW A GOOD READER
1. Allow the reader to have choice.
2. Provide comfortable reading areas.
3. Provide uninterrupted reading time.
4. Provide a variety of reading materials.
5. Read aloud.
6. Introduce readers to authors and illustrators.
7. Model reading; discuss what you are reading at home.
8. Regularly visit the library – both school and public.
9. Don’t make them finish every book. Not all books fit every reader.
10. Ownership is important. Create or buy bookplates for kids to put in their own books.
11. Reading is its own reward.
12. Use booklists. (See links on Student page under Websites to Discover Great Books)
13. Don’t worry about making the reader choose “good books.”
14. Write – anything, everything. Readers write and writers read.
15. Allow re-reading of favourite books.
16. Read the book before seeing the movie.
17. Play board games.
18. Follow cookbooks to create meals.
19. Use travel books to plan vacations.
20. Don’t give up. Everyone has spurts of “non-reading.”
Ford, Deborah. Books and Boys: Practical Ways to Bring Books and Boys Together to Strengthen Literacy Skills. Resource Handbook. Bellevue: Bureau of Education & Research, 2009.
