Monthly Focus: Becoming A Life Long Reader

Week 1 - AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS

Week 2 - LEARNING ABOUT GENRES

A genre is a specific type of music, film, or writing. Your favorite literary genre might be science fiction, and your favorite film genre might be horror flicks about cheerleaders. Go figure. ... In film or literature, the genre is determined by the subject, setting or plot of the story. A GENRE is just a fancy name for books that share a certain style, form or content. There are two main types of reading material: fiction and non-fiction. ...

BECOMING LIFE LONG READERS

October Week 3

Lifelong readers don't stop learning when they graduate from high school, or when they earn that college degree. Lifelong readers are constantly learning new things with each turn of the page. Readers are constantly challenged with new and interesting concepts and ideas

UNDERSTANDING DEWEY DECIMAL

October Week 4

The Dewey Decimal System was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1800s. He was a library guy and was hired by a library in Massachusetts to run their library. However, he ran into a problem. While fiction books were easy to organize based on the author's last name, non-fiction books, books that are based on real facts, events or people, couldn't work the same way. Think about trying to look for a book about trees by author! It would be impossible, especially since many non-fiction authors and publishers write about multiple topics.

He came up with a system of organizing the non-fiction books by dividing them into categories and organizing the categories and books based on numbers between 000 - 999. Each book has at least a three-digit number and the numbers are then put on the spine of the book so that you can easily see them when looking at books on the shelves. He called it the Dewey Decimal System, obviously named after himself.

BOOK REVIEWS

October Bonus Week

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