Trafalgar Castle School– Resource Centre

announces the

2007 READER’S CHOICE PROGRAMS

 Books are the food of youth,

the delight of old age;

the ornament of prosperity,

the refuge and comfort of 

     adversity;

a delight at home,

and no hindrance abroad;

companions in the night,

in traveling in the country.           

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For more than a dozen years, Ontariostudents have had the opportunity to participate in programs designed to encourage leisure-time reading and allow them to be judges in a province-wide literary event.  The OntarioLibrary Association sponsors the programs as both foundation and support for the promotion of recent Canadian titles and their authors.  The titles appeal to a broad range of interests and include titles for all grades and ages, from the most junior in elementary school to the senior in the community. 

Trafalgar Castle School has once again registered so that our students may participate in the Reader’s Choice Initiatives, and upon becoming eligible may vote for their favorite on April 20, 2007.  All students may participate in the appropriate grade or age level without qualifying to vote.  Eligibility to vote is based upon the reading of a minimum of five titles from a selection of non-fiction or fiction titles.  Students are encouraged to read more than the minimum five titles, in order to cast a truly informed vote.  Staff members may participate in the leisure reading initiatives by reading titles from the Evergreen program or three of the five titles from the CBC sponsored annual battle of the books - Canada Reads.

Silver Birch, selected for grades three through six (ages seven to eleven) allows students to vote for non-fiction or fiction, with ten nominated titles for each section.  Fiction includes titles such as “Terror at TurtleMountain”, “Ingrid and the wolf” and “The path through the trees.”  Non-fiction books include “Backyard birds”, “Hiding Edith”, and “The wonder in water.”

Red Maple, chosen for grades seven through nine (ages eleven to fifteen) similar to above, also offers ten nominated fiction and non-fiction titles.  Fiction includes the titles “We all fall down”, “Not a trace”, and “The Isabel factor.”  Non-fiction offers “Season of rage”, “Money, money, money”, and “Our stories, our songs.”

White Pine, intended forgrades nine to twelve offers a selection of ten fiction titles, including those from some popular authors such as Atwood’s “The Penelopiad”, Walters’ “Shattered” and Toten’s “Me and the blondes.”

Evergreen titles, for adult readers, include “An audience of chairs”, “The girls” and “Three day road.”  Canada Reads nominations include “Children of my heart”, “Stanley Park”, and “The song of Kahunsha”.

For more information

ONTARIOLIBRARY ASSOCIATION - a forest of reading ^TM programs   OLA reading

CBC - Canadareads   CBC reads

For people to find information for daily living, and for students to be successful in research assignments, the ability to acquire, evaluate, select, use, create and communicate information is crucial.  Leaning to access resources and process the information found are the keys to student success and accomplishment. 

When you use a research or academic library, the books, journals, and other resources, have already been evaluated by scholars, publishers and librarians. Every resource you find has been evaluated in one way or another before you ever see it. When you are using the World Wide Web, none of this applies. There are no filters. Because anyone can write a Web page, documents of the widest range of quality, written by authors of the widest range of authority, are available on an even playing field. Excellent resources reside along side the most dubious. (Kirk, 2002)

Kirk, Elizabeth E. Evaluating Information Found on the Internet. 6 May 2002. The

Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University. 23 Jan. 2003 <http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/>