Biblionasium

Biblionasium is a social network that allows students to log books, review them, and share or recommend them to fellow kid readers. Parents or teachers must sign up first and then grant access to kids. Students get to choose an animated avatar and can then start to add books to their My Books section. For team-taught classes, multiple teachers can manage a class. Teachers can run reports of student reading progress.

Students can then log their progress, create reading challenges for themselves, and review and recommend books to their Biblionasium friends. In return, they'll get to see what other kids are reading in a safe, private environment.

Biblionasium is a must-have tool for a reader's workshop environment. It gives students the opportunity to talk about books, driving home the point that reading doesn't have to be a lonely endeavor -- it can even be fun! When students add a book to their Biblionasium library, they immediately get to make choices: Did they like it? Why did they like it? Why do they want to share it with a friend? They'll learn communication skills, improve their writing skills, and actually read books. Biblionasium is a warm, colorful community where students can challenge themselves and have a great time doing it.

Students will pick books to read, then log each one into Biblionasium. They'll then share how they felt about that book with friends, learning some basic analytical skills in the process. By making and then reaching their reading goals, students can become more confident as readers and hopefully transfer that feeling to other academic endeavors. Parents have a role, too, and can recommend books to their kids and monitor their reading progress in the tool, allowing them to support their students at home by encouraging and modeling good reading skills.