Musings from a Head of English…Why We Need School Librarians. 21st-Century Readers : Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World. GraceLinBlog: the wrong question (#ownvoices) A couple of months ago, I decided that I would take my five-year old daughter with me to the local Women’s March.
Since my explanations were not as clear as I wanted, I searched for children’s book to help me explain the Women’s March to her. Unfortunately, the only one I found was a shallow story of a girl with a pink hat that removed almost all of political aspects of the March. And it was written by a man. Data Detox Kit. Sustainable Development: The Role of School Libraries. 12 Reasons Students Don’t Read & What You Can Do About It - Terry Heick. 12 Common Reasons Students Don’t Read & What You Can Do About It by Terry Heick Why don’t students read more?
Digital distractions? An Interesting Game To Teach Students To Think Critically About Fake News. An Interesting Game To Teach Students To Think Critically About Fake News by Terry Heick Want to help students learn to think critically about ‘fake news’?
A simple, browser-based game could help. What is Bad News? Digital Research Lessons For Google-First Students. 13 Digital Research Lessons For Google-First Students by TeachThought Staff Google Search offers as a universe of information and has thoroughly changed not just research but the very appearance of the accessibility of knowledge.
Try Curiosity!: Against My Instincts: Maximizing Shelf Space for Display. In planning our new library, one aim was to increase circulation through better "merchandising" or "selling" of what the library has to offer.
We hired Kevin Hennah for a virtual session to help our design process and explain some key elements: Front-facing booksSignageFlexible shelvingGenreficationEnd display spaces. Students are told not to use Wikipedia for research. But it's a trustworthy s... At the start of each university year, we ask first-year students a question: how many have been told by their secondary teachers not to use Wikipedia?
Without fail, nearly every hand shoots up. Wikipedia offers free and reliable information instantly. So why do teachers almost universally distrust it? Announcing our fourth Reflecting Realities report! The Guardian view on children’s books: take them seriously. Good children’s literature is a serious business.
Not serious as in boring or “improving”, but serious in attention and ambition, serious about beauty and wonder, about engaging the brain but also the heart, about sadness and difficulty, but also about silliness and joy. Above all, it is serious about the legitimacy of a child’s world – which is a world away from being child-ish. Good children’s books, from picture books to 500-page novels, can be seriously hard to write. Mark Haddon published 17 books before The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. His wise and beautiful The Sea of Tranquility took two years and 50 drafts, 50,000 words becoming 500. Curation: Arrival – Leanne Morgan. Student Choice Is the Key to Turning Students Into Readers. From Striving to Thriving: One Reader’s Story by Dav Pilkey.
If we stop telling kids what to read, they might start reading again. 5 Reasons to Read for Reluctant Readers. Teachers may offer up a killer classroom library and carve out class time for silent reading, but these two things do not guarantee prolific reading, or even moderate reading from your students. One of my goals when I was teaching high school was this: to have students fall in love with reading while they were in my classroom (or at least like it a little more). So how do you motivate secondary students in a deeper, lifelong reader way? 5 Tips for Helping a Student Find the Right Book. When I was a high school English language arts teacher, there was really no greater feeling than helping a kid find the book.
When they wrote something that they truly owned and were proud of (an essay, poem, letter), that was a close second. As teachers, regardless of age of our students, we contribute everyday in helping children fall in love with reading and writing. Those two things enrich our lives academically, yes, but also personally: Reading helps us make sense of the world. How to Support Middle School Readers Tackling More Complex Texts. Many young people, when asked when the last time was that they enjoyed a book, will recall circle or read-aloud time in elementary school, bedtime stories read by parents when they were young, or falling in love with a favorite series, such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Captain Underpants.
Elementary-aged readers often take great pride in moving from reading picture books to reading chapter books and series. If there’s one goal that our school systems should have, it is to support students in feeling a sense of innate curiosity and pride in the skills and content they’re learning. Connecting policy to practice: How do literature, standards and guidelines in... 4 Reading Strategies to Retire This Year (Plus 6 to Try Out!) It’s not uncommon for classroom literacy practices to stick around in spite of, as in the case of round robin, well-established research and readily available resources offering a variety of research-based alternatives for improving reading fluency and deepening comprehension and engagement.
In fact, when literacy specialists Gwynne Ellen Ash, Melanie R. Kuhn, and Sharon Walpole surveyed teachers and literacy coaches to more deeply understand “the persistence of Round Robin Reading in public schools in the United States,” they found that close to half of the 80 teachers they surveyed admitted to using some variation of round robin, and more than 30 percent “acknowledged that the research said Round Robin Reading was not best practice but they used it anyway.” A Short History of CRAAP. Update: I recently learned that this post has been selected for inclusion in a prestigious ACRL yearly list. Newcomers unfamiliar with our work may want to check out SIFT, our alternative to CRAAP, after reading the article. I reference the history of the so-called “checklist approaches” to online information literacy from time to time, but haven’t put the history down in any one place that’s easily linkable. So if you were waiting for a linkable history of CRAAP and RADCAB, complete with supporting links, pop open the champagne (Portland people, feel free to pop open your $50 bottle of barrel-aged beer).
Today’s your lucky day. Background. How To Live: A Life Of Montaigne. How do you avoid pointless arguments? How do you get over the death of someone you love? How do you balance the need to feel safe against the need to feel free? How do you deal with fanatics? How do you make the most of every moment? 4 Strategies To Recharge Your Teaching. 4 Strategies To Recharge Your Teaching by TeachThought Staff The last month of teaching was quite hard for me.
I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated in the classroom, less tolerant, less friendly, and worst of all, sarcastic. Goodreads' Problem With Extortion Scams and Review Bombing. The Mind Tools L&D Podcast: Employee engagement: Are you listening? on Apple... The Five S of Blurb Writing – Check these 5 Awesome Tips. “I’m loving it!” Sounds familiar? This is the label that represents McDonald’s. All over the world, everyone is familiar with this age-old tagline, and it’s stayed with us till today. But why are we talking about advertising here? Well, a blurb is also a tagline that is meant to sell a product—your book. Stories in science- the power and the potential – Inside the petri dish. Using non fiction books in the classroom beyond writing in English – Inside the petri dish. Dealing With Discipline In The H.S. Library. WKL in conversation with Sarah Ardizzone ~ Ready, Steady, School! by Marianne Dubuc (Book Island)
The Benefits & Limits of Diversity Audits. Book Talk with Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist” CIS: A conversation on anti-racism and international education (Youtube) Perspectives Blog - CIS Council of International Schools.
Diversity Audit: A Practical Guide. From Playboy to periods: I reread Judy Blume with my tween. She found it perp... Reading_framework_Teaching_the_foundations_of_literacy_-_July-2021. Problems wirh the DfE’s new reading framework. Alternative Fairy Tales I English, Citizenship I All Ages. Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert - Anne Cas... Learning About Learning To Learn, Sarah Pavey.
Learning through Inquiry. How to gain more from your reading. Information_Disorder_Digital_AW. ASCCC OERI Introduction to College Research. This May Be The Biggest Lesson Learned From Online Education During The Pandemic. Critical Thinking with Digital Media. Taking a Journey to The Land of All: Using Children?s Literature to Explore Gender with Young Children. 6 Tips for Introducing Chapter Books to Preschoolers. Hacking Graphic Novels: 8 Ways to Teach Higher-Level Thinking with Comics and... Treasuring when "nothing happens" Enid Blyton slammed by English Heritage as a “racist, sexist, homophobe”
Does Your School Need a Literacy Check-Up? Reading communities: why, what and how? Articles - How to be an anti-racist librarian. Bookwhisperer. Margaret Kristin Merga. Build a Reading Culture – Pete the Librarian. Why We Need Diverse Books Is No Longer Using the Term #OwnVoices. The time to read. How Much Do Authors Make Per Book? Krashenpredictors-of-PIRLS. Why Do Some People Love Reading? Parent-Toddler Social Reciprocity During Reading From Electronic Tablets vs Print Books. Enhanced e-book helps close the word gap in children from families of low socio-economic status. How Children Read Differently From Books vs. Screens. What happens in your brain when you 'lose yourself' in fiction: Study examines fans of 'Game of Thrones' characters.
What happens in your brain when you 'lose yourself' in fiction: Study examines fans of 'Game of Thrones' characters. The Connectivity Fingerprints of Highly-Skilled and Disordered Reading Persist Across Cognitive Domains. Dr Seuss 'cancelled'? There’s nothing new about cutting racism from children’s books. 2 5KNF an Update.