Elkins High School Library
Ten Ways We Can Help You & Your Students
Provide Resources for Differentiated Instruction
Provide instructional resources in many languages
Organize the Information Within the Source
Access Expensive Publications on the Internet
- Newpapers such as the Economist
- Scholarly articles
- ebooks
Guide students to reliable resources
- Emphasize critical thinking -- not just finding facts
- Contained environment
- Fewer distractions
Provide Instructional Resources
- Step-by-step guides to help students use the digital resources
- Assigning books to groups or lit circles? We can order copies of the selections from other FBISD libraries ahead of time or work with Fort Bend County libraries to make them available at local libraries!
- Carts of interesting and relevant books
- Packaged links to academic articles
- Smores -- like this smore on a topic that your students are studying!
- Can't find a resource on the web? Let me use some tricks to find it quickly....and I'll teach you and/or your students the Google tricks if you want.
- Graphic Organizers: http://britannicalearn.com/resources/
Bring you classes to the library in order to:
- Have more space
- Collaborate with other classes
- Engage in distance learning events
- Access the computers
- Access the books
- Read!
- Most current popular series are on the front counter by checkout
- Tayshas Award Books (selected by Texas Librarians) are on the front table by Ms. Hines
- Older popular series are within the fiction section alphabetical by the author
- Manga collections are on the shelves below the current series and on the shelf near the loveseat
Order Materials for Checkout To Use In Classroom
- Books
- DVDs
- Digital information
- Information overload? Please collaborate with me so I can help you and your students find the reliable information that they need either through FBISD digital information resources or through Google
