Using Biblionasium to Promote Self-Selection and Cultivate a Culture of Reading:
Research consistently shows that independent reading (reading students choose to do on their own) significantly influences students’ reading performance. The amount of free reading done outside of school positively relates to growth in vocabulary, reading comprehension, verbal fluency, and general information (Cullinan 2000). Biblionasium supports independent reading by creating a reading community for our students and makes reading fun and social.
What is Biblionasium?:
Biblionasium is safe, COPPA compliant online community for young readers that promotes a love of reading by allowing students to connect with their classmates to share their favorite books and record their reading progress.
Students can add books to their digital bookshelf, recommend books to friends, log their reading, rate and review books, earn virtual awards, and more.
Biblionasium allows for easy collaboration between our school librarian, the classroom teacher, and the student’s parents to motivate, measure, and manage each child’s reading.
Parents can be linked to their child’s account by providing an email address to their child’s teacher. This will allow the parent to track their child’s reading progress, view their child’s reading list and wish list, monitor their child’s independent reading, recommend books to their child, and set up family reading challenges. This will also allow the parent to see the teacher’s reading list.
How it Works:
Each Kilpatrick student has a Biblionasium account that is linked to Destiny, our library’s online catalog. Students can access their Biblionasium account either by logging into Destiny Discover (Destiny can be accessed in the student’s MyKaty cloud https://mykaty.katyisd.org/) or by going directly to the Biblionasium website(www.biblionasium.com) and selecting the “Login with Destiny” option. In both platforms, the student will need his/her Katy ISD username and password to access this account (available from your child’s teacher). This linked account will provide the student with real-time information and access of our library’s resources.
Coach Chip Manzee will guide the students through the website, offer helpful tips, and reward reading achievements with digital awards and trophies.
The school librarian, classroom teacher, and parent can set up Reading Challenges for a student. The student may also set up a personal Reading Challenge for him/herself. Your student can view Reading Challenges by logging into their Biblionasium account and selecting the “Challenges” tab.
Contests:
Biblionasium also sponsors contests throughout the year. Participating students can win books and gift cards by writing book reviews. Find details for Biblionasium-sponsored contests under the Home tab in the “Messages from Coach Chip Manzee” section, or by clicking the “Contests” tab in the menu on the left side of the screen.
To Access Biblionasium:
Select “Login with Destiny”
Utilizes Katy ISD username and password (available from your child’s teacher)
