In the mood for buying?  Mark your calendars ...

• ERAC:

• ULS: 

   

• The Multi-Vendor Display:  November 5 & 6, Burnaby Firefighters' Hall

   

• Other Resources to tap into:

   

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Kits for Freedom to Read Week -

 

Knowledge Network e-zine Watch for upcoming program evaluations with teacher and student links.

 

SAY Magazine - The largest national magazine for and about Native youth is now in its sixth year.  It has themed editions geared to lifestyles of all ages.

 

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National School Library Day (NSLD) :  Find ideas here for you library's celebration during the week of October

 

Canadian Teachers' Federation publications: 

 

 

 

Print Resources

         ENGLISH

FRENCH

*  MANY OF THESE FRENCH LANGUAGE RESOURCES VENDORS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE VSB FRENCH IMMERSION 

    DISTRICT PROFESSIONAL DAY IN NOVEMBER AS WELL AS AT THE MULTI-VENDOR DISPLAY IN BURNABY

 

Sophia Books - info@sophiabooks.com - 604 684 9484 (Marc or Stephanie)

Savoir Books - savoirbooks@telus.net - 1 877 556 5522 (Tarja)

Vancouver Kidsbooks - psimon@kidsbooks.bc.ca - 1 800 893 5335

French Language Resources (Nanaimo) - frenchlanguageresources@shaw.ca

Cheneliere - glaberge@cheneliere.ca - Gisele is Montreal-based; there is a local rep - 1 800 565 5531 loc #2289

Scholastic - alisa_howard@telus.net - 604 943 8016

ULS - egraves@uls.com

Pearson - debra.smith@pearsoned.com - 778 329 6945

Thomson / Nelson - Randy.Arduini@thomson.com - 604 837 6804

Oxford - cdreyer@telus.net - 1 888 531 2304 (Catherine Dreyer)

Usborne Books - cgoodban@shaw.ca or scameron@istar.ca

L'Ecole des Loisirs - maxvancouver@shaw.ca

 

Go to the School Libraries and Learning Resources page of the VSB Website and click onto Learning Resources

for a link to French Language Resources for both French Immersion and Core French programs.

Check with Shirley Cameron at Usborne Books for a French catalogue.

 

 

For Titles recommended by Teacher-librarians, go to "Every Library Needs This Book" (see Sidebar for Theme Page)

Electronic Resources

PROFESSIONAL: 

BC's K-12 Collaborative Learning Resource Centre  - Free to all BC teachers, this upgraded, updated resource centre has more resources, an improved, intuitive search tool, and a better activity planner to create or modify online materials. We continue to add new resources, and encourage teachers, schools, and school districts to participate by contributing resources of their own. Soon educators will able to search this learning object repository by the Ministry of Education’s learning outcomes.

 

ENGLISH

CBC ARCHIVES – A RESOURCE FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS (EdInfo Digest Volume 7  No. 2  October 5, 2007

The CBC Archives offer students and educators a variety of material for exploration. Their Mordecai Richler Was Here page, for example, offers dozens of English and French language TV and radio clips on this Canadian literary icon which make an excellent resource for students of Literature, French or Canadian Social and Political History. The CBC Archive has a special section for teachers. Search the topic index to find packages of information on a huge range of topics from the history of the snowmobile to the Air India investigation.  http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-68-753/arts_entertainment/mordecai_richler/  

 

 

FRENCH

 

Reviewing Journals

Meredyth mentioned SIGNAL Journal:  Special Interest Network on Literature for Adolescents, IRA

 

Consider joining the IRA or LOMCIRA, the Lower Mainland Chapter of the International Reading Association:  subscribe

to The Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, Reading Teacher, and other choices.

Vendor Information

ENGLISH

 

ULS Burnaby is located at 1l1B - 3430 Brighton Avenue, Burnaby, BC.

Phone 604-421-1154 or Fax 604-421-2216.  Email burnaby@uls.com

Open an account at www.uls.com

 

Gumdrop Books - Lawrence Bendandi  604-719-3278 / lbendandi@gumdropbooks.com  (March 2009--Lawrence has moved to Ontario, there is a new rep for BC)

 

Edu-Reference -

 

Usborne Books - Shirley Cameron 604 224-6509 / scameron@istar.ca

 

24 Hours - Philip Tan

 

David Ellis Bookseller - David Ellis 604-222-8394 (Specializes in the First Nations of Canada)

 

 

FRENCH

 

 

 

FIRST NATIONS

CORE Learning Resources - Many of you have ordered materials from Peggy Woodruff who specializes in First Nations books and resources.  The full order form and new Fall list is included here.  Or check out Peggy's website:  http://www.corelearningresources.com/

 

- New for Fall: 2007 Fall new titles.doc

- Order form for CORE Learning Resources: 2007 Fall CORE order form.doc 

 

 

GoodMinds 

 

 

Reading Lists

NEW!!  100 Books to be Read in Kindergarten: Juv Fic Author_Title.xls

(This list comes from Theresa MacLeod, the Literacy Co-ordinator of the Fraser Valley Regional Library)

 

Check for the links for recent United Library Services Lists to 2008:

 

Audio Lists and catalogues:  

 

ERAC Recommended Novels - discounts up to 35% for novel sets

 

First Nations, 2007

 

The French Collection, Winter

 

Social Responsibility K-7 and 8 - 12

 

NEW:  Reading Power, Fall 2007 - Adrienne Gear's Top Picks for Using Reading Power in the Elementary Classroom

Connect - Question - Visualize - Infer - Transform.  Discounted up to 30%