Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: October 5: #Cybils Nominations, #IntrinsicMotivation + Freedom to #Read #GraphicNovels

Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include: #AR, #Booklists, #Cybils, #Diversity, #GenderDifferences, #Giftedness, #GraphicNovels, #GrowingBookworms, #HelicopterParenting, #Homework, #IntrinsicMotivation, #literacy, #Motivation, #ReadingAloud, #ReadingRewards, parenting, reading, and schools.

Top Tweet of the Week

Why Girls Are Better at #Reading Than Boys across the developed world. They spend more time #ReadingForPleasure, for one thing ow.ly/3eeW30m1mEz @aliaemily @TheAtlantic

Book Lists + Awards

The 2018 #Cybils Nominations are Now OPEN! | #MiddleGrade #PictureBooks #Nonfiction #Fiction #GraphicNovels #SpeculativeFiction #EarlyReaders #BoardBooks #YA #Poetry + more ow.ly/nAPw30m37T8

Here are some #Cybils 2018 Nomination Suggestions in various categories (inc. #BoardBooks + #PictureBooks ) from Jennifer Wharton, Elem/#MiddleGrade #Nonfiction chair ow.ly/EPTx30m2gdQ

15 Superb #ChapterBooks (many the start of a series) for 2nd Graders | Janssen Bradshaw @ReadBrightly ow.ly/MbCW30m1n0v #BookList w/ #IvyAndBean #AlvinHo #MercyWatson + more

Diversity + Gender

10 Positive Things about #Aging We Need to Show Kids in Books by @AisforAging @nerdybookclub ow.ly/5MCK30m1Ga4 | Kids "deserve exposure to older #RoleModels and a more accurate #diversity of abilities, talents + interests"

New #research finds: Women and Men Are Equally Bad at #Multitasking | "we think it is fair to conclude that the evidence for the stereotype that women are better multitaskers is, so far, fairly weak" ow.ly/nJQU30m1G11 #GenderDifferences @HarvardBiz

Giftedness + Motivation

Interesting #research on Peer effects on #perseverance. Being observed by peers reduces the tendency of giving up immediately. @sciencedirect ow.ly/47JR30m3bAH via @Larryferlazzo #PeerPressure

How to help your underachieving gifted child ow.ly/ynSe30m3blU @giftedchlnges #Giftedness #Education #Schools #PeerPressure #Motivation #parenting

Some Parents Pay Up to $400 an Hour to Prep 4-Year-Olds for NYC’s #Gifted Test - @lesliebrody @WSJ ow.ly/POfC30m5tpA #schools #parenting

Growing Bookworms

A Closer Look at #Reading #IncentivePrograms. "What #rewards do, and what they do with devastating effectiveness, is to smother people’s enthusiasm for activities they might otherwise enjoy." @alfiekohn ow.ly/X6QV30m3c0d #IntrinsicMotivation #AR

A Notecard Check – A Simple Way to Check whether kids are understanding their books, without adding so much post-reading work that they will hate #reading itself ow.ly/jVgs30m2g9x @pernilleripp

What #teachers can do for #students who Abandon Every Single Book they attempt by @pernilleripp ow.ly/7gAT30m67ow | #ReadingIdentity, #BookSelection + taking the long view on #reading

Your Child’s #Reading Excuses, and What They Really Mean | @ImaginationSoup @ReadBrightly ow.ly/PPBV30m1mWN | #StrugglingReaders #ReadingChoice #ScreenTime + more

Reading Together: Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read by Diane W. Frankenstein (2009) | @mrskatiefitz recommends this as "best of the bunch" on books about books ow.ly/omwP30m66W5 #RaisingReaders #GrowingBookworms

Kidlitosphere

Lots of interesting #Kidlit tidbits in Fusenews: STEM Girl Fashions, the Death of “Hypothesis”, and More — @fuseeight ow.ly/UsmP30m1oeq | My daughter + I love #PrincessAwesome dresses too

Check out the gorgeous + user-friendly new website for @readingtub, chock full of #BookLists, #BookReviews + #literacy resources like tips for #RaisingReaders ow.ly/1nLF30m5oia

On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing

Comics and #GraphicNovels: Honoring All #Literacies and seeking input from #teachers about their use in the #classroom from @ReadByExample ow.ly/kr6k30m1t0r #kidlit #JoyOfReading

The straw man in the new round of the #reading wars - @valeriestrauss shares a response from #LiteracyEducation professor @RacheGabriel ow.ly/eLCP30m2gmV #BalancedLiteracy

Parenting + Screen Time

How I Know You Wrote Your Kid’s #CollegeEssay. "The paradox of the overzealous editing of the college essay by many #HelicopterParents is that they don’t know what a college essay is really about" JM Farkas @nytimes https://t.co/JdN5AzVt5B

If You Want To Help Your Child's Brain Development, Start When They're Born. Article outlines 5 ways to do it, including of course #ReadingAloud @ElissaNadworny @npr_ed https://t.co/KydstDzMFQ

Researchers in new study report that the most plausible cause of wellbeing decline in youth is increased #ScreenTime | @alexfradera @ResearchDigest ow.ly/vDCx30m4zxj #MentalHealth #iGen #parenting @jean_twenge

Schools and Libraries

Later #school start times will help #students get needed #sleep. But they aren't enough. Lawmakers should consider regulating total time spent on #schoolwork ow.ly/v19F30m4zKH @VickiAbeles @latimes via @drdouggreen #MentalHealth #play #homework

More schools are nixing #homework because parents say it’s annoying, infringes on #family time + keeps kids from developing other interests | @RaBergstein @nypost https://t.co/zwXSTp4Acp

Schools: EdPolicy + Funding

Massive study shows #California #schools face bleak financial future due in part to declining enrollment + rising #pension costs @DanCALmatters @mercnews https://t.co/9cRkiH5Gc8

This is kind of interesting (though I'm not sure about costs): The Case for Adding a Second 2nd Grade to #HighPoverty Elementary #Schools (to give kids who need it more time to catch up) by @MichaelPetrilli @EducationNext https://t.co/5Nb3PNBORB

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