Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: March 8: Online #BedTimeStories, #WorldBookDay and Damaging #Homework
March 08, 2019
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookLists, #ExtraCredit, #Focus, #homework, #JoyOfReading, #KidLitCon, #reading, #ReadingAloud, #ScreenTime, #WorldBookDay, #YA, parenting, publishing, schools, and teaching.
Top Tweet of the Week
This elementary school principal reads books on Facebook to ensure her students have a bedtime story @washingtonpost ow.ly/8ung30nTQl1 #ReadAloud #BedtimeStories #LoveOfReading
Book Lists
#HistoricalFiction #PictureBooks | A new #kidlit #BookList from @momandkiddo, organized by time period + region https://t.co/7ebfN8EwEY
ABC Books for Kids that Parents Will Enjoy Too! Another #BookList from @momandkiddo ow.ly/DzGM30nWPHd #PictureBooks #Parenting
A Few #PictureBooks to Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth – #BookList from @pernilleripp https://t.co/lnbHNfqi1R
Great stuff on this #BookList from #librarian Jennifer Wharton: RA RA Read: #MiddleGrade adventures across the genres (gadgets, secret societies, #SciFi + more) ow.ly/OX7a30nU3dX
Events, Programs + Research
Announcing some program
#KidLitCon19 changes and additions! – #KidLitCon Providence 2019, March 22-23 ow.ly/mV3d30nUd77 @charlotteslib
#WorldBookDay "should be about getting children excited about books and #reading", something #schools should be doing every day ow.ly/k4iT30nU3fn @smithsmm #JoyOfReading
A Few Suggestions from @BookChook for Celebrating #WorldBookDay on March 7 ow.ly/IMtD30nW2co #LoveOfBooks
Mrs. P’s FREE @MrsPstorytime website refocuses mission on making reading No. 1 and ends annual #writing contest! Read all about it! #LoveOfBooks #ReadAloudMonth https://t.co/UgI9sUBYWx
Growing Bookworms
Keeping
#Reading Magic in #MiddleSchool (or How We Reorganized our Middle School to Improve Reading) by Tara McCabe @nerdybookclub ow.ly/LDcM30nTQfW #GrowingBookworms
Schools should include #ReadAloud for older kids (as should parents) to halt fall in young readers, urge experts | @alisonflood @GuardianBooks ow.ly/pZhh30nWQeY #WorldBookDay #ReadingForPleasure
On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing
Interesting post from #MiddleSchool #SchoolLibrarian @MsYingling about how she is able to read + review SO MANY #kidlit books, w/ a few tidbits on what her students care about ow.ly/JLov30nXJuF
Terry has posted her March Question for #Readers @TheReadingTub | "What life habits or interests have come from being a reader?" | Share your thoughts here: ow.ly/xql730nUZS0
He Was Part of a Twitter Mob That Attacked Young Adult Novelists. Then It Turned on Him. Now His Book Is Cancelled @jessesingal @reason ow.ly/FlhR30nSYFj | #YA
Parenting + Play
How the Momo challenge and other remote but outrageous + viral threats distract parents from real dangers -
@jesslahey @onparenting ow.ly/wr3L30nW2l4 #parenting #SelfReliance #GPSTracking
Schools and Libraries
"Despite the very good intentions behind giving #ExtraCredit, the results are damaging to just about every aspect of #education" says @GaryArmida @TeacherAndAdmin ow.ly/BqG230nUGyp | Post also calls #homework "damaging"
#Teachers, See #Learning as Students Do, urges @mssackstein | "It is our job as #educators to sprinkle fairy dust and create the circumstances that engage and excite learners" https://t.co/Zjj8PD7wpi
Screen Time
Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain - @kevinroose @nytimes via @katsok ow.ly/PrKE30nTQeF #ScreenTime #Focus
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