Welcome to the Wicksburg Elementary Library 

The mission of our school Media Center is to provide an inviting learning environment to support a love of reading, while promoting effective use of technology to foster independent learning. We believe that the elementary school library should be a welcoming space for all learners to foster lifelong readers. Students should freely use the resources to spark curiosity and creativity.  

Meet Our Librarians 

     Anna Gilmore                                   Angela Speed

             Media specialist                            Elementary Library Aide

         gilmore.anna@hcboe.us                 speed.angela@hcboe.us

Renaissance Place Enterprise

First, a student’s optimal reading level is determined through the STAR assessment. This assessment provides information on a student’s overall reading ability and suggests a range of book levels for each student called the “zone of proximal development”, or ZPD.  Teachers then set an individualized reading practice goal based on reading quantity, quality, and difficulty and monitor progress toward those goals.  Students then select books on the ZPD level and read to take AR tests.  AR offers more than 150,000 quizzes on both fiction and nonfiction titles. These quizzes ask questions that measure a student’s comprehension of a book. 

Renaissance Home Connect

Parents have Renaissance Home Connect.  With this program, parents can access real-time information in English or Spanish to  stay up to date and keep their children motivated. Parents can get emails and alerts when their child takes a quiz.  Students and parents can see progress toward reading goals, conduct book searches using AR BookFinder, review AR quiz results, and view the number of books and words read.  AR Book Finder is a program that will tell you the level of every AR book.

To log in to Renaissance Home Connect

Website:  Renaissance Home Connect

Username: Your child's username that they log in with at school

Password:  Your child's password that they use at school

*Does not allow quizzing in Accelerated Reader from home.

Book Fairs
Our library sponsors a book fair during the fall and the spring of the school year to provide our students with a wide variety of excellent books.  Proceeds from the book fair provide funding for the library to purchase additional resources for students. 

Our Fall Book Fair will be held October 25-November 1

Click Here to Visit the Online Fair