http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/reading-aloud-kids-important/

Just to follow up, here is a post from KQ, Knowledge Quest, a publication of AASL, the American Association of School Librarians. It has some good research citations to have on hand if questioned ( Read more... )

A recent piece in the news from Pew Research asserts, "About a quarter of American adults (26%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form. So who, exactly, are these non-book readers?" You can read the full report here: Read more... )

As I sit in my home office today, a tribute to 9/11 is being broadcast on MSNBC. Fifteen years is a lifetime for most of the students in our classrooms right now. Even Nurse Girl does not recall much of that tragedy since she was 8 at the time. Those of us who watched the events unfold, who sat transfixed and horrified at the news coverage, ( Read more... )

May I please make a plea to those who post something without vetting it? Not the posts about FREE Sharpies. Those are easily dismissed via Snopes. No, I am talking about those who post and repost the latest "facts" in education without considering the source and the research ( Read more... )

Today will be spent in airplanes and rental cars as BH and I travel to Boothbay, Maine. So, I decided to post up some links here to important research on the effect of school librarians and adequate school library collections. I do this for a couple of reasons. One, I am asked to provide information when jobs are on the line. Two, many schools ( Read more... )

I spent some time this morning doing a spring (okay, I know it is summer already) cleaning of my Inbox. While I will never reach Inbox Zero, I am happy if it gets down to double digits. You see, I have this habit of emailing myself links to articles and posts that have interesting information. And often, these links are the stuff of blog posts ( Read more... )

I try my darnedest to capture and bookmark as many articles as I can that support my pedagogy. Thus, I have dozens of pieces about reading aloud and its positive effects. I posted a couple this week (and I apologize that one link was broken, so here is the "fixed" link: http:// ( Read more... )

Lit Up by David Denby has been making some waves. Here is a link to the NPR article singing its praises: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/08/467970342/yes-you-can-still-teach-kids-to-love-books. The reviews are ( Read more... )

An article link in Edutopia took me to a post about how to nurture a love of reading: Read more... )

My friend Donalyn Miller calls what happened to me today "going down the rabbit hole." I concur. I began by looking for some research on adolescents and reading for a workshop I will be doing in Connecticut in November. I wanted to see if there was something I did not already have at hand. I clicked on a link...several hours later I emerged ( Read more... )