Join me as I address the contentious issue of Wikipedia and what role it has, if any in our students’ research strategies.
Forbes: Amazon donates $1 million
NYT’s November 16 article: From Encyclopedia Collector to “Wikipedian-at-Large”
Trump’s Wikipedia page on Thanksgiving
NYT’s November 1 article: My Deployment Was Not an “Adventure”
NYT’s December 1 article: A Marine’s Reaction …Prompts and Apology From the Publisher
Join me as I contemplate how school librarians address the issue of leveled books both in our own libraries and classroom libraries. How do we support our students who have learned to look for levels on the books they read and why we need to empower students to find books which they find both manageable and interesting.
Jim Bailey’s article (August 2018) for the Nerdy Book Club
Fountas and Pinnell: A Note about Reading Levels
SJL: Thinking outside the bin (August 2017) by Kiera Parrott
Episode #84 How to stop killing the love of reading
Episode #107: What are the best ways to use leveled texts
Join me as I consider the use of parent and student volunteers as well as district employees as assistants in my libraries. Also in today’s episode: Dwarsliggers and the Awful Library Book Ladies!
NYT: Tiny Books October 30, 2018
Join me as I delve into the divisive issue of classroom libraries and our role in supporting them as school librarians. Challenge the recommendations for teachers in creating a library of their own. Recognize the struggle for school funding and how librarians and teachers can team up to support our shared goal of growing readers.
NTCE’s Statement on classroom libraries
Scholastic’s The 11 Essentials for an Effective classroom library
Pernille Ripps’ Questions to Assess our Classroom Library Before Back-to-School
Jim Bailey’s A classroom library: If you build it, they will read