CUES: Choose, Use, Enjoy, Share: A Model for Educational Enrichment through the School Library Media Center. Library and Information Problem-Solving Skills Series. Second Edition

Calling for structured interaction between students and books, Leonard specifies how teachers and media specialists can collaborate to create a library media-centered program that develops the talents of all K-6 students. The ultimate goal is to encourage reading and build reading, comprehension, questioning, and thinking skills. Models, groupings, strategies, and materials are suggested in a grade-appropriate scope and sequence. The latest theories about the process of education, thinking, multiple intelligences, how children learn (individually and cooperatively), as well as effective grouping and teaching strategies for differentiation are discussed. The book also has sample lessons and scenarios drawn from the author's experience. Grades K-6. Booknews Explains a program for gifted students that actively promotes the connection between reading and the curriculum, and offers a model that can be adapted for other purposes. Calls for structured interaction between students and books, and specifies how teachers and media specialists can collaborate to create a library media-centered program that develops the talents of all elementary students. Revised from the 1985 Choose, Use, Enjoy, Share. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. School library media specialists play a special role in the education of gifted students, particularly in the use of literature across the curriculum. The CUES program, developed for gifted students, actively promotes the reading/curriculum connection, thus providing an invaluable model for all educators. Calling for structured interaction between students and books, the book describes ways in which teachers and media specialists can collaborate to create a library media-centered program that develops the talents of all K-6 students. The ultimate goal is to encourage reading while building skills in comprehension, questioning, and thinking. Content and skills are not separate, but interwoven, as students "choose, use, enjoy, and share" what they experience. Twelve chapters contain models, groupings, strategies for differentiation, and materials are suggested in a grade-appropriate scope and sequence. Sample lessons demonstrate the excitement that occurs when students discover connections between their own ideas and the ideas found in books. (AEF) Once in the days of the Greek deities, Mount Parnassus was sacred to the Muses, the nine sisters who gathered there, along with their supervisor Apollo, in the name of the creative arts.