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To Raise a Reader

Reading By Example

Layne and The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. Some hospitals will send The Read-Aloud Handbook home with new parents. It was a book I relied on when I taught elementary school. MY STUDENTS ARE NOT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Trelease’s resource is in its 7th edition now and should be in the home of every family.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates. Go digital with eBooks and audiobooks. This was more than the number of print books borrowed.

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News Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (by Mike Caulfield): This ebook is a master class in a web-literate form of fact-checking that takes into account how the web and social media work and have changed information and authority for good. Each newsletter also ends with tips on incorporating the content into classrooms.