Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: April 7: #ReadingWithoutWalls, #AutismAwareness, #GrowthMindset + More
April 07, 2017
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookLists, #DiverseBooks, #GrowingBookworms, #GrowthMindset, #play, #poetry, #RaisingReaders, #ReadingWithoutWalls, #STEM, autism, economic diversity, games, homework, National Poetry Month, publishing, reading, screens, teaching, and translation.
Book Lists
10 Books to Inspire Inventors, Engineers, Tinkerers + Those Who Wish We Were! by
@KristinSchweitz @nerdybookclub https://t.co/VKxKlH2xZA
50+ #PictureBooks about Mixed Race Families now updated to 70+ books ow.ly/M9tr30awtUI @coloursofus via @tashrow #DiverseBooks
Diversity
Economics, Money + Class in 2017 #PictureBooks Today — @fuseeight | Including poverty in #DiverseBooks #BookLists ow.ly/NBkU30ayWdl
Events + Programs
Take the
#ReadingWithoutWalls Challenge this April + add #diversity to your #reading @MacKidsBooks @geneluenyang https://t.co/pkPD6eL241
Here’s How You Make a Book Spine Poem with Your Students/Patrons — @100scopenotes #NationalPoetryMonth ow.ly/yL5i30aB43T
World #AutismAwareness Week and Autism Acceptance/Awareness Month - resources + #BookList w/ mini-reviews @HornBook ow.ly/73ln30awuNP
Growing Bookworms
How Margarita Engle's books helped a mother + daughter to re-engage in discussion over books ow.ly/weyb30aww7l
@BooksBabiesBows
How to Get Your Kids to Read a higher ratio of good stuff vs. "junk books" from @growingbbb ow.ly/LmP830awyRr #ReadAloud + more
How to Make #Reading Fun: 25 Ideas Kids Will Love | Jean Reagan @ReadBrightly #Audiobooks #WordlessBooks etc. https://t.co/c2DkjtXbCA
Growth Mindset
Four #Teaching Moves That Promote A #GrowthMindset In All #Readers | ow.ly/7QJj30ayMfT @Kschwart @MindShiftKQED @drgravitygLLC
#GrowthMindset Is Not Enough | @RewardingEdu @edutopia on other character-based skills #teachers should help build https://t.co/Q6RBip7Yrb
On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing
"the thing about
#reading as a child. You don’t just read a book: you enter it." #CatherineGilbertMurdock @HornBook ow.ly/zocj30aBcm5
Even More Outlandish: Further Thoughts (vs her @sljournal piece) on the Role of Translation + #KidLit @FuseEight ow.ly/ubWY30awxPh
Play
Lamenting a 2nd grade classroom "party" to which kids could bring tablets but not toys by @carrielukas ow.ly/Clap30ayJDp #play
Schools and Libraries
New studies show the cost of student laptop use for notetaking in lecture classes -
@DTWillingham ow.ly/jx1Z30awwRw
It Takes a Suburb: Lexington MA (where I went to HS) Struggles to Ease #Student Stress | Kyle Spencer @nytimes https://t.co/G7WmJqP5vC
We should not assume how parents will react to changes like eliminating #homework says @pernilleripp ow.ly/h9C930awxxY #schools
Bookmobiles and Beyond: new #library services on wheels serve newborns through teens | @apriljoyous ow.ly/bHjt30aDZ3e @sljournal
STEM
The Big List of Board Games that Inspire Mathematical Thinking, sorted by age range, from @MIND_Research ow.ly/jvH430aB4gF #STEM
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