Mrs. Nancy Yurek, Library Media Specialist
SRES Media Center: (480) 362-2451

Hours of Operation
Monday-Friday 7:45 AM - 3:15 PM
Early Release Days 7:45 AM - 12:30 PM 

Media Center Etiquette - Students are welcome to visit the Media Center every day. Students can stop by in the morning before Running Club to switch out books or take an Accelerated Reader Quiz. The library has open access all day long, students are welcome to visit throughout the day with a hall pass from their teacher or during recess.


Watch Salt River Elementary School students celebrate world Read Aloud Day on February 1, 2019! Thanks so much to our fabulous librarian Mrs. Yurek for her steadfast dedication and promotion to literacy AND for creating and sharing this wonderful video!

For 10 years World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) has called attention to the importance of sharing stories by challenging participants to grab a book, find an audience, and read aloud! The global effort is now celebrated in over 173 countries and counting!Click here for resources on how to encourage literacy development (and a love of reading) at home.

Here are links to the books Mrs. Yurek speaks about in the video:

• The Bear and the Piano (voted 3^rd place by SRES poll)
• Mama the Alien (voted 2^nd place by SRES poll)
• We Forgot Brock! (voted 1^st place by SRES poll – it’s our favorite book!)
• Memoirs of a Hamster (oted 1^st place in Arizona and recipient of the Grand Canyon Reader Award)