Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: July 6: #Reading Promotion and Summer #Vacation / Learning for #Teachers

Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this relatively light week include #BoardBooks, #BookLists, #ClassroomBookADay, #GraphicNovels, #GrowingBookworms, #Math, #ReadAloud, #STEM, adventure stories, book challenges, pensions, professional development, teaching, and vacation. 

Top Tweet of the Week

Raising Kids Who Want To Read : Parents "should model reading, make #reading pleasurable, #readaloud to your kid in situations that are warm + create positive associations" @DTWillingham @NPRCoryTurner https://t.co/H0MCvOgkDZ

Book Lists + Awards

Press Release Fun @FuseEight | The Debut of the 2018 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards ow.ly/90WB30kJaza | Some great #kidlit #GraphicNovels on the 2018 nominee lists shared in this post [including nominee Real Friends, one of my family's favorites.]

Here's the first installment of the Top 100 #BoardBooks Poll Countdown from @FuseEight | #100-91 ow.ly/9jDD30kLTGk #kidlit #BookList

Favorite #Diversity #PictureBooks for 4th of July | a timely #BookList from @pragmaticmom ow.ly/W2PQ30kMwXe #Kidlit #DiverseBooks #July4th

Perfect #SummerReading: Adventure Books for Kids: A Gigantic #BookList of Exciting Page-Turners from @momandkiddo ow.ly/CEGp30kLTYR | fantasy, mystery, humor, history + more, all adventurous #kidlit

How I Am Growing by @pernilleripp | A Few Professional Development Books for #Teachers to Boost Work ow.ly/wJEF30kJ9MP | #GrowingBookworms #ClassroomLibraries @pennykittle @KellyGToGo @teachkate @ClareandTammy #CleartheAir

Growing Bookworms

Setting Them Up For A Lifetime Of #Reading by Clare from @ClareandTammy @nerdybookclub ow.ly/l60e30kLTVR | "I believe once a person has truly experienced the #JoyOfReading they will find their way back to a vibrant reading life"

"there is a simple way (for #educators) to help their students to be better readers, to love reading, + to grow and learn ... All they need to do is give kids time and let them read" independently @ritaplatt @ReadByExample ow.ly/Ws3h30kOvj

#Reading Promotion: Transforming the Reading Culture of a K-8 Building by @rtslitech + @RTSReadingT @nerdybookclub ow.ly/Y6Zw30kLTB3 | #ClassroomBookADay #BookAcademyAwards + other ideas for #GrowingBookworms

Be a Reader Leader – What Administrators Can Do to Promote a #Reading Culture in #Schools – @pernilleripp ow.ly/5aI030kOvLb | #IndependentReading time, protecting #ReadAloud + more

On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing

South Carolina Police Challenge 2 of high school's #SummerReading Titles for "indoctrination of distrust of police" | @CBLDF ow.ly/kEAO30kLAQW

My 10-year-old self would have adored the real-world book scavenger hunt + other experiences described in this post by BOOK SCAVENGER author @jabertie @nerdybookclub ow.ly/axW430kMvDr #JoyOfReading #Puzzles #kidlit

Schools and Libraries

Food for thought in this @EdSurge piece by @paul_emerich | Why Are We Still Personalizing #Learning If It’s Not Personal? ow.ly/PRiv30kMyVo | Individualization has diminishing returns + increases potential for #student isolation

Newly retired #teacher @palan57 assures fellow #educators that they work harder in the summers than even they realize, and that their Teacher Brains never stop running ow.ly/5WiK30kMwm4 @BAMRadioNetwork

"Taking time to rest and recharge is essential for us as educators" | @MrPStrunk shares the strategies that are working for him this summer #vacation ow.ly/7LLU30kMxyQ | #teaching

Why California Is Losing Teachers and Laying Off Secretaries - @AllysiaFinley @WSJ ow.ly/Drsg30kKKlf | This challenge with pensions has certainly been the case where I live

#PersonalizedLearning is the new #EducationReform hiding in plain sight. This @hechingerreport piece by @LauraPappano looks at some pros (autonomy to #schools) + cons (questions about #EducationalEquity) https://t.co/4l1J1kzWEE

STEM

How to help children overcome #MathAnxiety - @sharonlurye @hechingerreport speaks w/ @sianbeilock ow.ly/9b8u30kNMtl | #BedtimeMath #STEM #StereotypeThreat

RT @carolynjones100: San Francisco school finds key to raising math scores: Teacher training edsource.org/?page_id=599874 via @edsource

8 Fun Ways To Keep #Math Learning Alive Through the Summer | @Kschwart @MindShiftKQED ow.ly/BuYH30kLUrP | #STEM #IntrinsicMotivation #JoyOfLearning #legos #KiteBuilding + lots more

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