AR Book Finder

Accelerated Reader Book Finder

All of Douglas County Schools have access to Renaissance Place, which offers an online platform of Accelerated Reader.  We now have access to many more titles.

http://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.aspx 

Destiny

Destiny
http://destiny.douglas.k12.ga.us 

Online Reading Resources

Storyline Online - https://storylineonline.net/
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more.

Research

GALILEO
Fantastic database for doing research! Too many resources to mention! See Ms. Deal or Ms. Bonner for the current password. 
http://www.galileo.usg.edu 

Digital Library of Georgia
The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.  
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?Welcome 

The New Georgia Encyclopedia
The New Georgia Encyclopedia is an authoritative source on the people, places, events, and institutions of Georgia. The site contains nearly 2,000 articles and more than 5,000 images and audio and video clips on the history, culture, and life of the state. 
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp 

National Archives in Georgia
An archive of historical records from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. 
http://www.archives.gov/southeast/exhibit/ 

Encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com 

Lexile Information

Lexile Information
http://lexile.com/about-lexile/lexile-video/ 

Math

Math Playground
Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun! 
http://www.mathplayground.com/ 

Cool Math

Fun math games for middle grade students.

http://www.coolmath.com/ 

Newbery Medals

Newbery Medal Winners - 1922-Present

The John Newbery Medal

From the beginning of the awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, committees could, and usually did, cite other books as worthy of attention. Such books were referred to as Newbery or Caldecott "runners-up." In 1971 the term "runners-up" was changed to "honor books." The new terminology was made retroactive so that all former runners-up are now referred to as Newbery or Caldecott Honor Books.

Caldecott Book Awards

 Caldecott

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Coretta Scott King Awards

CSK Award

History of the Award

In 1969, while attending the American Library Association Meeting in New Jersey, Mabel McKissick and Glyndon Greer, two school librarians, had a chance meeting at a booth when both were trying to get a poster of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was a time of great turmoil in the country. Both women loved children's literature and were discussing that African American authors and illustrators had not been distinguished with awards for their work. John Carroll, publisher at the booth where the two were vying for the poster, asked them why they didn't start an award to do so. From that seed of an idea, the Coretta Scott King Award was born. 

Writing Tools

APA
Frequently asked questions about APA style and formatting. 
http://www.apastyle.org/ 

APA - Purdue Online Writing Lab

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, these are provided as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.  

MLA - Purdue Online Writing Lab

Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.