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School libraries
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Leading and managing
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- Managing your school library
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- School libraries
- Leading and managing
Managing your school library
Visit page- School library budget
- Annual report
- Evidence-based school library practice
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- Managing your school library
Evidence-based school library practice
Visit page- Evidence-based practice and why it matters
- Planning successful user-centred change
- Gathering evidence from existing research and knowledge
- Gathering your own evidence
- Turning evidence into action
- Journey mapping for school library design
- Managing your school library staff
- School Library Development Framework
- Collections and resources
- Library systems and operations
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Library systems and operations
Visit page- Your library catalogue
- Record Manager: Cataloguing service for schools
- Library operations
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Library operations
Visit page- Getting started in your school library — an operations checklist
- School library suppliers list
- Stocktaking guide
- Earthquake, fire, or flood: Impact on school libraries
- Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
- Tips for moving your library
- School library mergers
- Place and environment
- Library services for teaching and learning
- Videos
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Stories
Visit page- Whare Ahuru Mowai — a future-focused library space
- Student Library Review Group — giving students a voice
- Positive rewards from creating a school-wide reading culture
- The Poppy Blanket
- Encouraging reading through generous lending policies
- Genrefication — one primary school librarian's experience
- Inquiry into inquiry: The Marlborough Inquiry Project
- Supporting inquiry learning in kura kaupapa Māori
- She'll be OK: Growing confident team members
- From information overload to streamlined searching
- Professional development through online learning
- Services to Schools
- School libraries
- Stories
Professional development through online learning
Visit page- Learning about raising readers at Sylvia Park School
- Learning to develop a responsive secondary school library collection
- Learning about raising readers at Oropi School
- Learning to develop a responsive primary school collection
- Experiencing the benefits of facilitated online learning
- Online PD — an 'anchor' during a pandemic
- Projects to improve student learning
- School loans case studies
- Summer reading stories
- Research
- Reading engagement
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Reading engagement
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- Reading engagement
Understanding reading engagement
Visit page- Why reading engagement matters
- Reading for pleasure — a door to success
- Reading for wellbeing (hauora)
- Reading promotion
- A school-wide reading culture
- Organisations, events, and awards celebrating reading
- My reading superhero
- Services to Schools
- Reading engagement
- Understanding reading engagement
My reading superhero
Visit page- Di-Kun — Mrs Dawson, reading superhero
- Eban — my Mum, reading superhero
- Eva — my Mum, reading superhero
- Morgan — my Mum, reading superhero
- Nicole — my Grandpa, reading superhero
- Rochester — Miss Webster, reading superhero
- Sam — my Mum, reading superhero
- Sarah — Miss Pritchard, reading superhero
- Libraries supporting readers
- Children's and youth literature
- Family, whānau, and community connections
- Teachers as readers
- Strategies to engage students as readers
- Summer reading
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- Reading engagement
Summer reading
Visit page- Take a community approach to summer reading
- Research on the summer slide and summer reading
- Schools — how to support students' summer reading
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- Reading engagement
- Summer reading
Schools — how to support students' summer reading
Visit page- Plan a summer reading initiative
- Principals — lead summer reading
- Teachers — prepare your students for summer reading
- School libraries — encourage summer reading
- Measuring the impact of summer reading
- Families — keeping your child or teen reading over summer
- Public libraries — encourage summer reading
- Videos
- Research
- Digital literacy
- Lending service
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Lending service
Visit page- Dates for ordering and returning school loans
- Who can borrow, what you can borrow
- School loan coordinators — how to use our lending service
- Services to Schools
- Lending service
School loan coordinators — how to use our lending service
Visit page- Quick guide for school loan coordinators
- Work with teachers to plan your loan and requests
- Order a whole-school loan — tips for using the online form
- Request a specific book — anytime title requests
- Receive and manage the books in your loan
- Return books using CourierPost special rates
- Renew books, overdue books, lost or damaged books
- FAQs about school lending
- School loan coordinator role
- Home-educators — how to borrow our books
- Lending news
- Teaching and learning resources
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Teaching and learning resources
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Resources for learning
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Resources for teaching NZ history topics
Visit page- Arrival and settlement of Māori in Aotearoa NZ
- First encounters and early colonial history of Aotearoa NZ
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi and its history
- Colonisation/immigration to Aotearoa and the NZ Wars
- Aotearoa NZ's national identity in late 19th/early 20th centuries
- Aotearoa NZ and our national identity in late 20th century
- Aotearoa New Zealand's role in the Pacific
- Storybook app: Turikatuku — Te wahine taki wairua
- The New Zealand Wars
- Audiobooks and eBooks for students with dyslexia or other print disability
- Teaching tools and resource guides
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- Teaching and learning resources
Teaching tools and resource guides
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- Teaching and learning resources
- Teaching tools and resource guides
Curiosity cards for inquiry
Visit page- Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
- Services to Schools
- Teaching and learning resources
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Curiosity cards for inquiry
Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
Visit page- Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (CC0001)
- Te Horeta's nail (CC0002)
- The 'Crook Cook' statue (CC0003)
- Burning the forest (CC0004)
- A New Zealand 1951 fifty pound note (CC0005)
- Tuki te Terenui Whare Pirau's map (CC0006)
- 2017 Women’s March (CC0007)
- Te Rangitopeora (CC0008)
- The bicycle and women's suffrage (CC0009)
- Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (CC0010)
- Mere Ruiha Hakaraia/Mary Bevan’s signature on the 1893 Suffrage Petition (CC0011)
- Girls can do anything (CC0012)
- 1893 anti-suffrage cartoon (CC0013)
- Frances Parker’s Women’s Social and Political Union Medal for Valour (CC0014)
- Mt Cook School in Wellington (CC0015)
- Set 2: Tuia Mātauranga
- Services to Schools
- Teaching and learning resources
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Curiosity cards for inquiry
Set 2: Tuia Mātauranga
Visit page- Navigation (TMCC1)
- Waka hourua (TMCC2)
- Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (TMCC3)
- Te Horeta's nail (TMCC4)
- Matau rino (TMCC5)
- Whakapapa (TMCC6)
- 'Crook Cook' statue (TMCC7)
- Silver fern (TMCC8)
- Huia (TMCC9)
- Hāngi (TMCC10)
- Mt Cook School in Wellington (TMCC11)
- Kahu kiwi (TMCC12)
- Hikoi (TMCC13)
- Whales (TMCC14)
- Dawn raids (TMCC15)
- Cross-cultural identity (TMCC16)
- Multiculturalism (TMCC17)
- Kauri dieback disease (TMCC18)
- Blank curiosity card template
- Fertile questions
- Primary sources — how to use them
- Inquiry exemplars and templates
- Guides for exploring children's and YA literature
- Explore He Tohu with your students
- World War 1 (WW1) resources
- Topic Explorer guide
- EPIC guide
- AnyQuestions guide
- DigitalNZ guide
- Papers Past guide
- Index New Zealand (INNZ) guide
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Visit page- Leading a learning community
- Modern library learning environments in Christchurch schools
- School libraries: Excellence in practice — Amesbury School
- Riccarton book club
- Developing digitally literate learners
- Creating a school-wide reading culture
- Te whakahiratanga a nga whare pukapuka
- The importance of libraries
- Te wahi
- Te wahi — Place
- Ngā rauemi
- Ngā rauemi — Resources
- Ngā whakaritenga
- Ngā whakaritenga — Access
- Ngā kamahi
- Creating a reading culture — Windley School
- School libraries: Excellence in practice — Ormiston Senior College
- School libraries: The heart of a reading culture at Hurupaki School
- Creating a reading culture — Matarau School
- Reading Together at Ohaeawai School
- School libraries: Excellence in practice Raroa Intermediate
- School libraries: Excellence in practice — Viscount Primary School
- Fertile questions explained
- The power of visual material
- Ideas for exploring Te Horeta's nail
- Using the '2017 Women's March' curiosity card
- Localising the curiosity cards templates
- Using the 'Crook Cook' curiosity card
- 'How is it activism to ride a bicycle?' Exploring the 'women cyclists' curiosity card
- Ideas for research activities to explore fertile questions
- Primary sources: The National Library of New Zealand collects, preserves and makes them available
- Primary sources that the National Library of New Zealand collects
- The National Library of New Zealand collects the real stuff of history
- Researchers use primary sources to create new works
- A Grand Mother
- Research
- Professional learning and support
- Tuia Mātauranga
Children's and youth literature
Children’s and young adult (YA) literature is rich and diverse, spanning multiple formats and genre. Increase your knowledge and understanding of the literature, and discover strategies to evaluate and promote it to engage students in reading.
Contents
Getting to know read-alouds
Reading aloud to children and teenagers stimulates interest, imagination and language, and exposes them to the joys of reading. Finding and choosing a 'read-aloud' that you and your students will enjoy is crucial, so here are a few tips and resources.
Picture books
Learn what makes a good picture book and how to use them to engage students with reading.
Early chapter books
Early chapter books (young fiction) help young readers transition from picture books to fiction. This stage of reading can span a number of years and a range of reading needs, from eager young readers to struggling older readers.
Sophisticated picture books
Sophisticated picture books weave words and pictures to tell a story, making them highly effective at engaging students with reading. Visual and literary features provide subtle subtexts and require readers to draw on existing knowledge.
Books for tweens
Capturing the imagination of your tween readers (aged about 9–12 years) requires a broad range of genres and formats — fiction and non-fiction with plenty of series fiction, humour, and mystery.
Genres and forms for young adult and young fiction
Find out about popular young fiction and young adult (YA) fiction genres and forms so you can help students choose books they'll enjoy.
Poetry
Find out how poetry enhances wellbeing through self-expression and empathy, and engages children with reading and writing. Using wordplay, humour, and insights into the ordinary and extraordinary, poetry captures emotions and can confront serious issues.
Graphic novels
Graphic novels are a long-form type of comic. Find out how to use them to engage readers and develop visual literacy skills.
Books and Reads — for kids and teens
Use our Books and Reads tool to explore, find, and share children’s and young adult (YA) books and reviews, and find reading communities.Reading engagement
- Understanding reading engagement
- Libraries supporting readers
- Children's and youth literature
- Family, whānau, and community connections
- Teachers as readers
- Strategies to engage students as readers
- Summer reading
- Videos
- Stories
- Whare Ahuru Mowai — a future-focused library space
- Student Library Review Group — giving students a voice
- Positive rewards from creating a school-wide reading culture
- The Poppy Blanket
- Encouraging reading through generous lending policies
- Genrefication — one primary school librarian's experience
- Inquiry into inquiry: The Marlborough Inquiry Project
- Supporting inquiry learning in kura kaupapa Māori
- She'll be OK: Growing confident team members
- From information overload to streamlined searching
- Professional development through online learning
- Learning about raising readers at Sylvia Park School
- Learning to develop a responsive secondary school library collection
- Learning about raising readers at Oropi School
- Learning to develop a responsive primary school collection
- Experiencing the benefits of facilitated online learning
- Online PD — an 'anchor' during a pandemic
- Projects to improve student learning
- School loans case studies
- Summer reading stories
- Research