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Educational Resources

The school media program provides library services for all grades. The mission is to ensure that all students and faculty are proficient users of information and in doing so, the library plays a vital role in the school community.

Media Specialist

Farragut’s media specialist, Susan Calder, works with classroom teachers to enhance content areas and facilitate the use of the school’s resources.

Hours of Operation

The Student Center is open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and from 8:10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Educational Resources

We start our youngest students off using Pebble Go, Scholastic Go for Kids, Gale Resources and Gale for Teachers. These research tools teach fundamental concepts of research. The content offers read-aloud audio, consistent and straightforward navigation to foster independence, critical thinking skills, and source citations.

Our entire student body has access to over twenty-five databases using our EBSCO resources. EBSCO research databases offer thousands of books, journal articles, images, charts, and primary sources. These databases contain scholarly and peer-reviewed articles written by credible authors, such as journalists, researchers, and experts in their field.

Our students develop essential research skills using NoodleTools, an online platform that helps them take notes, organize information, create outlines, evaluate sources, and use proper citations. NoodleTools also provides teachers and librarians with effective tools to scaffold instruction, ensuring that students produce high-quality, original research.

Educational Resources Links

• Gale Resources

• Pebble Go
 
• NoodleTools
 
• TrueFlix
 

Community Resources Links

Lower School Library Programs

Students in PreK through fifth grade attend weekly library lessons. Sixth and seventh-grade students come in for flex time to check out books at their leisure. Each student is encouraged to check out a variety of genres and levels. Students may check out two books at a time. 

Storymakers takes some of the same concepts used in Makerspaces to create an open-ended, interactive, and creative way to approach literacy. Students will become immersed in a literary experience by creating stories, plays, poetry, puppets, props, and more!

Farragut offers a new after-school book club for our third through fifth-grade students who would like to read the Sunshine State Readers. Book Club will be held on the last Friday of each month from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Student Center. Participants will enjoy group discussions about the novels along with considering possible Battle of the Books questions. Book club meetings happen weekly.

 

SSYRA Books

Farragut offers an after-school book club for our sixth and seventh-grade students who would like to read the Sunshine State Readers. Book Club will be held on the first Friday of each month from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Student Center. Participants will enjoy group discussions about the novels along with considering possible Battle of the Books questions. Book club meetings happen weekly.

SSYRA Books

Students are encouraged to become literary critics and review the books they are reading. Each week a student book recommendation will be read on the news and the winning writer will be awarded a prize.

Students in 6th-7th grade have media and information literacy skills embedded in their coursework. Students use analytical research concepts to evaluate web-based informational resources and use critical analysis to determine the quality of information. Students are able to evaluate the appropriateness of all types of information sources with regard to their informational needs.

Students have events scheduled for them including author visits, reading challenges which include the ten-book challenge, genre challenge, and Global Read Aloud.

 

“The Daily, Daily” News Show

We film our Lower School morning show, The Daily, Daily, during recess Monday through Thursday. Students interested in being a newscaster, writer, or on-location reporter need to fill out an application. Applications are located in the LoYou may view episodes of the news show below.

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