Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: August 25: Back to School Edition

Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookLists, #Cybils, #GraphicNovels, #GrowthMindset, #ScreenTime, #STEM, academic red-shirting, books for boys, books for girls, eclipse, growing bookworms, motivation, neurodiversity, racism, reading logs, and schools. 

Book Lists

16 Books That 6- to 8-Year-Old Boys Say Are Must-Reads | @Bookopolis @ReadBrightly ow.ly/MYqq30eDeiZ  #BookList #kidlit 

Just For Fun: An #Eclipse Reading List from @aquafortis ow.ly/2wXq30ezkGq  #kidlit

The Big List of Preschool #Math Books, a @growingbbb #BookList ow.ly/NBSn30exJbc  #PictureBooks #STEM

50+ Multicultural STEAM Books for Children | @coloursofus ow.ly/xVhE30eDgA2  #BookList #DiverseBooks #STEM

#Science Themed Early Chapter Books for Kids Age 6-10, #BookList from @momandkiddo ow.ly/Re7B30eAL5Y  #kidlit #STEM

NPR's #GraphicNovels List, response + recommendations from new #Cybils Graphic Novel category chair @everead ow.ly/sfSy30eALCe  #kidlit

Top Ten Kids' Books w/ Neurodiverse Characters by Kacy Smith @nerdybookclub ow.ly/gBEo30ewTc2  #BookList #Autism #ADD #OCD etc.

Cybils Awards

The Call for #Cybils Judges is coming soon, says @MsYingling, middle grade fiction chair #kidlit #BookAwards ow.ly/qK9Q30evUqr 

The 2017 #Cybils Call for Judges is now live: We Need YOU! | #KidLit + #YA bloggers/reviewers, find details here: ow.ly/Dpll30ezk2u  

Growing Bookworms

Instead of accountability re: reading at home, how do we create passionate #reading environments in schools? ow.ly/koNx30eDe0o  @pernilleripp 

Growth Mindset

11 Ways to Build Capacity and Never Stop Growing ow.ly/cP7d30ezkS8  @DavidGeurin #GrowthMindset #learning 

UC Berkeley is teaching students to cope with and learn from failure | #GrowthMindset @mercnews http://ow.ly/1JUX30eDfYB

On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing

Racism, Children’s Classics and the World Today | use these books to teach, don't just ban them, says @literacious https://t.co/rqayBFAjeT 

Read like a girl: how children’s books of female stories are booming | @GuardianBooks via @tashrow ow.ly/lNq830evTIE  #kidlit

Rediscovering the joys + disconcerting aspects of Kids’ Books as a parent by Meghan Cox Gurdon @WSJ ow.ly/FxNm30evT3s  #kidlit

The End of child_lit: The Literary Listserv Era Comes to a Close — @fuseeight shares her thoughts #kidlit #YA http://ow.ly/njys30eEKSv 

Schools and Libraries

Why Stickers, Pizza Parties + Tickets Didn't Work in My Classroom by @ajjuliani ow.ly/gpfY30eAKUK  via @drdouggreen #teaching #rewards 

Oldest Kids in the Class May Get an Edge in College Admissions - study finds effect of academic redshirting @WSJ ow.ly/yvPb30evRCY 

Screens

Are tablets turning babies into insomniacs? - study finds tablets causing lost sleep in babies + toddlers ow.ly/uvTR30ezm70  @mercnews 

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