The link below takes you to a book trailer for the book "The Water
Princess", by Susan Verde and Illustrated by my favourite illustrator;
Peter Reynolds. https://bit.ly/2YjGGQB
I use videos in the library, every single week. Usually, the video supports or relates to the book, author or theme for that week. For example, when the StrongStart class (birth to age 5) was learning about seeds, we watched a time elapse video on sprouting seeds: https://bit.ly/2gYMEmT
In French, I will often show an inspirational music video from the group "Kids United" (en français; Nouvelle Génération) https://bit.ly/1IEKNh7
In Surrey, there are two district-wide Reading Programs for K-4. The Teacher Librarians reads all 10 books from each of the two programs (one non-fiction program and one fiction program). The students then get to vote on their favourite book and the results are posted for the winning book by Division, School and District.
I show book trailers for the all the books (this one was the winner this year’s picture book contest): https://bit.ly/2LHI1Pl and for the non-fiction books, I find supporting background videos to broaden the topical background knowledge. For example, two of the Non-Fiction books from last year’s program called “Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years Old”, by Stacy McAnulty and “A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars”, by Seth Fishman,
were about big numbers and the size of the
universe. I showed the older students this video https://bit.ly/2YzFixu and it generated SO MANY authentic
discussions and questions.
Cathy
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