Library
Summer Reading Lists 2023
Book suggestions from your school librarian to enjoy during the summer holidays:
E-books and audiobooks
Public Library
Join your public library online to avail of free e-books and audiobooks and download the BorrowBox app to borrow free e-books and audiobooks from your public library.
TeenBookCloud
Here is a link to free access to e-books through TeenBookCloud
There is no login required.
There are e-books and audiobooks, fiction and non-fiction, classic literature, videos and educator resources aimed at the 11-18 age group.
It also states whether a book is on Accelerated Reader or not and has a book quiz, which is very useful. If you go to the ‘Index’ on the menu, you can see a list of all of the titles, and if they have a quiz it tells you the book level.
Open Culture
Free e-books and audiobooks, including many classics.
World Book E-Books
There are about 700 proprietary World Book titles for ages 4-18 and over 2,500 Project Gutenberg titles
Project Gutenburg
Project Gutenburg is a library of over 60,000 free e-books. The books are mostly older literary works published before 1924:
AudiobookSYNC
AudiobookSYNC is a free summer audiobook programme that allows teens aged 13+ to download 2 paired audiobooks per week! Click HERE
Accelerated Reader
For 1st and 2nd year students.
To do an Accelerated Reader book quiz, click here.
To search for a book to see if there is a quiz on it and what level a book is, use the AR Bookfinder. To search for books within your book level range click on Advanced Search and search ZPD range/ATOS Book Level:
Recommended books
There some very good reading lists here from Children’s Books Ireland, many for secondary school-aged students, under different categories: https://childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommendations
Recommended reading from the Empathy Lab:
Secondary School Read for Empathy Guide
Learning and research resources
Resource page for students, teachers, and parents from the School Library Association:
JSTOR, The Ireland Collection
This collection of journals and other materials is available to schools in Ireland through the Schools Broadband Network. It’s accessible when you are in school on the student network, not at home:
Dictionary of Irish Biography
From Scoilnet: “Provided by the Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press, the Dictionary is the definitive record of Irish biographies. It was previously available only through schools but access has now been extended to home usage. This is an invaluable resource to anyone studying Senior Cycle History”: https://dib.cambridge.org/
Scoilnet Maps
Black Lives Matter
Exact Editions has partnered with a number of publishers to assemble an extensive list of articles from archived digital issues in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, spanning a wide range of topics from literature and music to politics and activism. All of these articles have been made freely available: https://institutions.exacteditions.com/blm
Newspapers
The Irish Times (in school):
https://www.scoilnet.ie/tools-for-teachers/theirishtimes/
Irish Newspaper Archives, now accessible from home:
https://www.scoilnet.ie/scoilnet/tools-for-teachers/ina/
Join your public library online and read a wide variety of online newspapers:
https://www.librariesireland.ie/elibrary
Magazines
Join your public library online and read a wide variety of online magazines:
https://www.librariesireland.ie/joinyourlibrary
https://www.librariesireland.ie/elibrary
Information/research/inquiry skills
Inquiry-based learning
The FOSIL method of inquiry: learning by finding out for yourself. Click on each stage of the cycle for useful resources:
https://fosil.org.uk/fosil-cycle/
Information Skills
Some good information skills advice sheets here from the TeenTech Group:
Searching
BBC Bitesize article click here
Evaluating online information
Media Literacy and Fake News
Be Media Smart: https://www.bemediasmart.ie/
Media Literacy Ireland: https://www.medialiteracyireland.ie/
BBC Fake News: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-52474347