Margate City Schools

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Margate City Schools

• Media Centers
• 2003-04

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Union Avenue School
Mrs. Chauncey Fitzgerald
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Library Time
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Pre-School
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Second Grade

• Accelerated Reader

and second grade helpers!!
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Library Lunch
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Childrens Book Week
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William H. Ross Intermediate School
Mrs. Luann Amodeo
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Welcome to the Ross Media Center

• My name is Luann Amodeo and do I have books for
  our students!!!
• Almost 5000 of them
• Fiction, nonfiction, and special collections
• Reference Holocaust
• We also have
• Recorded Books and classic stories in VHS format.

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Our 7 library computers offer students access to

• Microsoft Word, Excel, and Publisher
• Internet Access
• Encarta 2004
• Accelerated Reader

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Accelerated Reader

• Reading is power!!!
• Our students can challenge their reading skills
  with AR.
• This is a computerized reading quiz program.
• We have over 875 titles all genres, all reading
  levels.
• The teacher, librarian, and student work as a
  team to help achieve individualized reading
  success!!!

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Additional Motivational Reading Programs

• Otis Spofford Trivia Game
• Battle of the Books
• Celebrate Reading
• Brown Bag Book Bunch
• Dr. Seuss Day

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Library ClassesGoal Information Literacy

• Library/Study Skills
• Research on any kind of topic in a variety of
  formats
• Subscription database services
• Custom Power Point
• Presentations
• Collaboration across the curriculum

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Hours of operation

• The Ross Media Center is opened all day for
  students to visit.
• Library Lunch is very popular.
• After school business is also brisk!

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Eugene A. Tighe Middle School
Mrs. Jennifer Jamison
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Eugene A. Tighe Middle SchoolBecker Media Center

• 10,000 Materials in Circulation
• 25 networked computers
• Automated card catalog
• Internet access on all networked computers
• Homework Club
• Accelerated Reader Program
• Online Databases and Subscription Services
• (SIRS, Novelist, EBSCOHost, and Proquest)

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Whats Happening in the Media Center?

• Teen Read Week
• Books for Babies and Read Across America
• Best Books of Tighe School

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Co-Teaching

• Pathfinders
• Technology Training
• Research Paper and other Projects
• Newsletters for the Staff and Parents
• Co-Curricular Units using Resources such as
  Digital Streaming, Webquests, and Community
  Related Resources

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Library Lunch
Students will come to the Media Center and enjoy
a relaxing, fun and reflecting place for students
to read, socialize and complete assignments.
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Library Lunch Aides

• My program is designed to promote a responsible,
  productive and self-sufficient individual. The
  students are able to assist in a variety of
  duties that make the Media Center flourish!