About - Business and Economics - Macquarie University. The Australian Book Industry: Authors, publishers and readers in a time of change is a three-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council and Macquarie University.
Professor David Throsby from the Department of Economics at Macquarie University heads the research team, which also includes Dr Jan Zwar, Dr Tom Longden and Mr Paul Crosby. The project started in February 2014 and will be completed in early 2017. Not just scribbles: How tots start learning text is symbolic. Photo by Tatyana Tomsickova Photography via Getty Images.
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Story telling is very important for our children today, they need it more than ever. Stories feed our sense of self, wonder, safety, respect. As children listen to stories it helps to develop their imaginations, their self esteem, and sense of team spirit. Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations. Great Kid Books: Making Time for Rhyme. I wrote to author Susan B.
Katz, author of ABC School's For Me and several other books, asking her to talk with parents about the power of rhyming stories. I notice that so many parents love reading these aloud to their kids.
Reading skills. YALSA’s Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth: Young Adults Deserve the Best. A taskforce is currently working on updating the Competencies.
The goal is to have an updated version available in the summer of 2016. Using the Competencies The Competencies Updated January 2010 The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) that supports library services to teens, developed these competencies for librarians who serve young adults. YALSA first developed these competencies in 1981, which were revised in 1998, 2003, and 2010. Library educators School and library administrators Graduate students Young adult specialists School librarians Library training coordinators Public library generalists Human resources directors Non-library youth advocates and service providers.
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Priority Area 1: The Impact of Libraries as Teen Formal and Informal Learning Environments Priority Area 2: Library Staff Training, Skills and Knowledge Priority Area 3: Equity of Access. Popular Topics - Articles & Videos - Choice Literacy. Top Tips For Reading To Children - Author Neil Griffiths - ELC. Encouraging boys. Literacy in a digital world.
Why are so many adults reading YA and teen fiction? It’s not a secret that books written for children, teens and young adults (YAs) often sell far more copies than even the most popular adult reads.
Although a relatively new market, having only really fully developed over the past 50 years, the children’s book industry has grown astronomically to become worth millions of pounds worldwide, with authors such as JK Rowling, Suzanne Collins, Michael Morpurgo, John Green, and Jacqueline Wilson quickly becoming household favourites. Perhaps one of the most important things to note about the teen and YA market in particular, though, is that the majority of its readers (55%, according to a 2012 study) are actually adults. Cool Little Free Libraries Around The World. With over 25,000 registered Little Free Libraries in all fifty United States and seventy countries throughout the world, Little Libraries are taking over the world.
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10 Reasons Why Kids Need to Read Non-Disney Fairy Tales. Say “fairy tales” and your mind likely flashes to Disney and its animated versions of children’s classics.
But old-school fairy tales — stories by authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Sophie, Comtesse de Ségur, or Andrew Lang — are filled with a richness and complexity that is often missing from their big-screen renderings. Here are ten reasons it’s worth reading the original stories with your young reader. 1.
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