Bellwood Library
News, Tips and Tricks!
Library Catalog is in your Rapid Identity Dashboard
Simply click on this icon and you can search and even put books on hold from anywhere!
New Resource in Your Backpack
Teachers now have access to eMedia VA in your Rapid Identity Backpack! Check out the 100,000 SOL-aligned learning objects and free content for your classroom!
Battle of the Books
18 of our BEST 5th graders are currently battling in order to discover who will be the team to represent us at the District Competition on April 27!
Make the Library Catalog Work for You!
Did you know you can search the Bellwood Library Catalog by DRA Level? Just type in DRA and the number for example DRA 20 and you will see a list of all the books available at that level! Kids can search this way too! I am happy to make that a requirement for check out if you wish! You can also search the catalog by reading strategies! The following search terms are assigned to books in the library so you can for example, search by summarizing and see what we have available to help teach that strategy! How cool is that?
Search Terms:
- Clarifying
- Making Connections
- Visualizing
- Predicting
- Drawing Inferences or inferring
- Synthesizing
- Summarizing
- Voice
- Homophones/Homonyms
- Questioning
- Word Choice
- Determining Importance
- Descriptive Language
Andy Weir for School Libraries