Summer Reading 2013

The South Carolina State Library’s Center for the Book has selected How I Became a Pirate, by Melina Long, to represent South Carolina at the 2013 National Book Festival in Washington, DC.  The book is the state’s selection for the National Book Festival’s “Discover Great Places Through Reading Map”.  Each state selects one title of fiction or non-fiction, a book about the state or by an author from the state that is a good read for children or young adults.  The map is distributed at the Pavilion of the States at the Festival and lists “Great Reads About Great Places”.

Join us on Thursday, June 20 from noon to 1:00 p.m. for a book talk and signing.  Save the Last Dance for Me: A Love Story of the Shag and the Society of Stranders by Phil Sawyer and Tom Poland. The story of a unique dance and its cultural spread throughout the South.

Speaker @ the Center is sponsored by the South Carolina Center for the Book and is free to the public.  Book talks are held at the South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, in Columbia.  For more information, please visit ReadSC.org.

Teaching children to read can be a challenge. This institute, hosted by Richland Library and USC’s School of Library and Information Science and Department of Education will show you how.

It will cover essentials like:
• Phonemic awareness concepts and activities
• Alphabetic principles
• Early strategies with K-1 nonreaders
• Vocabulary development, comprehension and concepts about print
• Learning assessment
• Access to print materials
• Use of illustrations in the teaching of reading
• Choosing culturally relevant texts for children
• Connections to common core standards