Library Learning Center
Library
Welcome to the Newman Library!
The library's mission is to create a space where all members of the school community:
- Experience a variety of activities that nurture a love of reading and lifelong learning.
- See themselves represented in the library’s diverse and inclusive collection.
- Develop information literacy in order to identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively to understand and connect with the community and world around us.
- Have opportunities to collaborate, communicate, and explore their creativity with others.
Learning Resources
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Salt Lake City has six sister cities around the world! Explore them here.
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iCivics Play games and learn about how your community and government work. Be a lawyer in Do I Have the Right? or try to balance a budget in People's Pie.
Free Rice Play a variety of games to boost your skills while also benefitting others.
Shelver Practice your library skills by putting these books in order.
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Destiny Discover is the library catalog for the Salt Lake City School District. Students can access e-books that Newman has purchased here. Log in with student username and password.
Epic Books Access a huge array of reading materials here, including e-books, videos, audiobooks, and read-along book. Use Ms. Anderson's code bgj8565 and log in as a guest to start reading.
Sora Read e-books and listen to audiobooks on Sora. Log in using Clever or Microsoft. To download the app on a personal device, use code saltlakeut. You can check books out like at the library!
Storyline Online The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
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Scrible. Use this extension to keep track of websites and sources of information. Let it help you quote from the text and cite your sources for a bibliography. It is in all students' CLEVER.
NewsELA Go here to find a wide array of articles curated just for kids. Log in using Clever or Microsoft.
Sweet Search A search engine designed for students!
Utah's Online School Library Go here to find World Book Online, Gale in Context, Culture Grams and more. If signing in at home: username is online. Password is learning. Tambien hay recursos en espanol.
World Book Online This is an encyclopedia with options for students of all ages.
Krista Anderson (she/her)
School Librarian/Media Specialist
Newman Elementary School
Salt Lake City School District
801-578-8537
krista.anderson@slcschools.org
Quick Links
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Newman Library Catalog: Destiny Discover
See your books checked out, overdue books, build a Favorites list, and see what is new in our library.
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Utah's Online Library
Go here to find World Book Online, Gale in Context, Culture Grams and more. If signing in at home: username is online. Password is learning. Tambien hay recursos en espanol.