Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: June 21: #SchoolLibrarians, #SummerReading + ReadingChoice: All Important
June 21, 2019
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookAccess, #Dyslexia, #FreeRangeKids, #GraphicNovels, #GrowingBookworms, #HungerGames, #ReadingChallenges, #ReadingChoice, #SchoolLibrarians, #SummerReading, #SummerSlide, #testing, #ViewpointDiversity, conversation, learning, play, and publishing.
Top Tweet of the Week
If Kids Can’t Read What They Want in the Summer, When Can They? | Excellent op-ed from @donalynbooks @sljournal on why kids need choice in #SummerReading to develop #LoveOfBooks ow.ly/XwuB30oXHti | Please share w/ #teachers you know
Conversation
On the Importance of Learning to Argue - @HdxAcademy ow.ly/LimU30oYclx "In order to flourish (as a society), we must engage in truly #CivilDiscourse" | #ViewpointDiversity #conversation
Am I Listening? – #SchoolPrincipal @ritaplatt shares her efforts to cultivate a Listening #Mindset @ReadByExample ow.ly/9vM330oYcNV | I think anyone could benefit from working to improve #listening skills
Events, Programs + Research
New research finds: Thinking About Their Own Multiple Identities Boosts Children’s Creativity + Problem-Solving Skills – @Psych_Writer @ResearchDigest ow.ly/ggE030oYcVN @sarahegaither #FlexibleThinking
The #GlobalReadAloud and integrating w/ a #Literacy Curriculum | ow.ly/CR7B30oWtOS #GRA19 @pernilleripp #ReadAloud
A Core Subgroup of Believers Don’t Just Think #LearningStyles Are Real, But Also Inherited + Hard-Wired In The Brain – @mattbwarren @ResearchDigest ow.ly/c71q30oYtAG | Seems counter to #GrowthMindset | @pritirshah
Growing Bookworms
This post will bring a tear to the eye of people who care about kids + #reading | Dog Man to The Rescue: How #BookAccess Saved My 3rd Grade Student by #SchoolLibrarian @RaisingReal @nerdybookclub
#NoSummerSlide Week 3 from @TheReadingTub – Goal Getters Edition ow.ly/TlIw30oXdzq | Encourage kids to think about things they want to do over the summer while building #literacy
The Purpose of reading…What is your reading offer part 2. | @smithsmm on things #schools need to do to create readers, w/ deep dive on purposes kids may have for #reading https://t.co/Twzae8ciaX
On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing
My Favourite Villains by @ClaireFayers @AwfullyBigBlog ow.ly/K15x30oWWLw | Who are your favorite fictional villains? I'm with Claire on Matilda's parents. Ugh!
This is interesting: #HungerGames prequel set 64 years earlier coming in 2020 ow.ly/9wmc30oXdv4 @Scholastic #SuzanneCollins #dystopia #YA
The Adults Voluntarily Giving Themselves #Reading #Homework | @julieebeck on #ReadingChallenges in @TheAtlantic ow.ly/xmif30oWWOA via @MindShiftKQED | Personally, I prefer to read as the spirit moves me. I don't even do #BookClubs
Were Youth Books Truly Diverse in 2018? @lochwouters takes a look at the #publishing statistics ow.ly/bT3c30oYtGz | #DiverseBooks #kidlit #DiversityJedi
Books for the #Dyslexic Child Reader: Why the British Do It Better — @fuseeight ow.ly/VCZD30oXHEy @BarringtonStoke | #publishing #kidlit
Parenting + Play
America Needs More Kids on Bikes - @jasongay @WSJ ow.ly/nTI130oWQqR | "But really the reason I want you to ride a bicycle is this: You’ll be free." #FreeRangeKids #independence
5 Things That Might Be Worse Than #SummerSlide – @HonorsGradU reflects on joys of summer that kids might miss by spending their time on mandatory #SummerReading assignments + such
Schools and Libraries
This is a travesty | In a liberal Boston suburb, kindergarten teachers say their students are learning to ‘hate’ school + hate reading, as standards force out play-based #learning ow.ly/QstL30oWQl3 @washingtonpost @valeriestrauss
Non-negotiables for #schools - is JOY one of them? ow.ly/ujhy30oYtW7 | @Jennifer_Hogan
#SchoolLibrarians, is no-one listening? How to help #schools understand our role by @Elizabethutch ow.ly/wEpP30oXHXv #GreatSchoolLibraries | Personally, I have loved + appreciated school #librarians since elementary school
A parent who is a African American, lifelong Oakland resident + Democrat shares why she thinks Bernie Sanders is wrong about #CharterSchools in @mercnews https://t.co/XKoJRgRriO
Testing and Grades
Why Can’t Everyone Get A’s? @alfiekohn @nytopinion takes on "the false belief that excellence is a zero-sum game" + the insidiousness of evaluating kids relative to one another ow.ly/kMyx30oXlB0 #standards #testing #grades
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