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Library Media Specialists for Today's Schools
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To be a productive member of a democratic
society in our global world, it is imperative that students are taught to
manage information effectively, efficiently and responsibly as well as
develop original thoughts, ideas, opinions, and conclusions.
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Reading is an isolated sport. To
successfully cultivate a culture of reading in our schools, we must turn
reading into a team sport with everyone involved in sharing, talking,
training, promoting, praising, encouraging, challenging, and cheerleading
parents, students and staff alike.
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NEW from Libraries Unlimited
April 2010
Social Readers:
Promoting Reading in the 21st Century
(ISBN13: 9781591588696)
Other books available from Libraries Unlimited (also available through Amazon.com):
The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy (ISBN13: 9781591583257)
SSR with Intervention - A School Library Action Research Project (ISBN13: 9781591584605)
 Book Review -
“My stand-up cheer for Leslie B. Preddy is wow, awesome, great! This book is
a wonderful model. Here is a teacher-librarian who is challenged by her
principal to do a piece of action research alongside all the teachers; so,
Leslie and a few other teachers huddle. They worry that sustained silent
reading (SSR) has been given a bad name by the National Reading Panel, and
they want to test it for themselves on their teen students. They invent a
simple method in which their students have response journals of what they
read....The results? Various measures send up a green flag--and higher test
scores. Leslie's book gives full details, the story, and various forms to
use to duplicate her program. But the biggest measure is, teacher-librarians
make a difference, and here is the evidence! Now for the rest of us "Go and
do thou likewise" keeps ringing in this reader's ear. This book is a keeper
that offers an action plan.”–'Customer Review' - "High school students and reading? Frequently too many other activities take our students away from the unabashed pleasure of reading for FUN. Leslie B. Preddy has found a way for all teachers...not just English, to bring the joy of reading back to kids. Ms. Preddy begins with the foundations...the "why" (if you will) of how this project came about. She then continues with practical and USABLE ideas for the classroom. I "slowed" down in requiring my students to "read for enjoyment," because so many other lessons SEEMED more necessary for those all-important high-stakes tests. NOT ANY MORE! These lessons WILL help all students achieve. Ms. Preddy will remind why you became a teacher in the first place...for the great joy of seeing a child "get it." This book should be required reading in colleges and in faculty study groups!" -Amazon.com (posted August 12, 2007) |
Reading/Thinking/Learning/Living
Collecting
the Data: Templates & Resources for SLMS
Information Inquiry,
Literacy & Learning @ Your Library
Student
Inquiry in the Research Process
SSR with Interventions
Virtual SLMS Resource
Center
Leslie's Vita
Worth Quoting
- Authors, Illustrators, Reading, Writing, and More!
- Collaboration
- Developing a Building Literacy Committee
- Grants & Grant Writing
- Millennial Learners and Reading
- SSR with Interventions
- Social Reading & Reading Promotion
- Student Research and Information Inquiry
- Using the Big6TM and Best Practices to Meet Academic Standards& Get the Most Out of Student Research
- Young Hoosier Book Award: Using New Fiction in
the Classroom
2009-2010 YHBA Resources
2008-2009 YHBA Resources
2007-2008 YHBA Resources
2006-2007 YHBA Resources