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Wahl-Coates School Media Center |
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Wahl-Coates Media Center |
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Our Media Center serves the educational needs of over 600 students grades Pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade and the instructional needs of approximately 85 instructional staff members. We currently house over 10,000 print and electronic resources, varying from books, magazines, reference materials (including atlases, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, etc.), CD-Roms, and videos. |
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Media Program |
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Open circulation is available for students and staff from 7:30-3:00 Monday-Friday. For grades 1-5, books are loaned out for a two-week period, while Kindergarten students have a one-week period. K-1 students are allowed to check out one book, while grades 2-5 students are allowed to check out two books, including student periodicals. Charges will be assessed for lost or damaged books. Students with overdue books are encouraged to renew their books if they need them for a longer time period. Students with overdue books or fines will need to take care of their status before checking out another book. Students may reserve a copy of a book if it is currently checked out. A note will be placed in the teacher’s box notifying the student of the book’s availability. Books are held for three days, then placed back on the shelf. Reference materials cannot be checked out, but may be used in the Media Center. AV materials may be checked out to teachers only for classroom use. |
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Circulation Policies |
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Reading Renaissance, using Accelerated Reader and STAR, is a supplement to the Reading program at Wahl-Coates. Accelerated Reader encourages students to read books by offering a testing program to go along with A.R.—identified books. Books are leveled by Reading Renaissance and assigned point values. Periodically throughout the school year, teachers test their students reading ability using the STAR test. After looking at the STAR test results, teachers assign reading level ranges to their students. After a student reads an A.R.-identified book, they are allowed to take an A.R. test about the book. Ask your child’s teacher if you have any questions about Accelerated Reader and STAR. In our Media Center, we have a large collection of Accelerated Reader books throughout all sections (Easy, Nonfictions, and Fiction). We also encourage students to choose non-A.R. books to read, since there are many quality books that are not identified as A.R. books. |
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Accelerated Reader Program |
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Through Media classes based on a fixed schedule (same day and time every week), K-2 students learn basic information skills, such as caring for books, locating books, using computers as information tools, and learning the parts of the Media Center. Students are also exposed to a |
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Media Classes |
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variety of picture books, tying into both the Information Skills curriculum and each grade level curriculum. Students in grades 3-5 learn information skills through flex-scheduled, curriculum-based projects, from a collaboration between teachers and the media coordinator. |
