BiblioNasium

Do your students struggle finding just right books?  Lucky for you, BiblioNasium has come to the rescue.  You might be wondering, what is BiblioNasium?  BiblioNasium is an online reading community for young students.  

Why Use BiblioNasium?

BiblioNasium is a platform that can help students become lifelong readers.  This community allows a class to keep track of their reading, recommend books, search for books, and connect with other readers in a fun way!  Watch this Welcome Video to learn the many benefits of using BiblioNasium with your class.  There are wonderful features on BiblioNasium for students, teachers, and parents.

BiblioNasium allows students to:

• search for books by the author, title or reading level
• select their avatar & change the background
• meet challenges presented by teachers & parents to win awards
• write recommendations
• find just right books (by interest and reading level)
• connect with their classmates about books they enjoy reading

BiblioNasium allows teachers to:

• recommend books
• create reading challenges for the whole class or individual students
• monitor and analyze what students are reading
• update students’ reading levels

BiblioNasium allows parents to:

• stay connected to their child’s reading
• view the books their child has read
• set up reading challenges for their children
• keep track of their child’s reading level

We want to provide the ideal learning environment for our students and BiblioNasium can help get us there!

Watch this tutorial to see how to get started with BiblioNasium

Getting Started with BiblioNasium by Leah Starr

What’s Next?

Let’s start using BiblioNasium with our students!   This can be integrated into the Reader’s Workshop as part of the Daily Five activities.  

Here are some ‘how to’ videos to share with students when getting started with BiblioNasium:

Change the avatar

Look at classmates bookshelves

Search for books

Use the reading log

Send & receive book recommendations

Here are some helpful resources for getting started with BiblioNasium:

https://www.diigo.com/user/lmstarr/PD-project

View the professional development presentation that can be used to introduce BiblioNasium to reading teachers:

BiblioNasium Presentation created by Leah Starr