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The survey showed school librarians using creative approaches to deliver superior library services, leading on tech innovation, collaborating with colleagues, and strengthening relationships with students.

Literacy is the business of librarians. Supporting coding using the pedagogy of maker education is part of our work.

Parents, children, and relatives who read together, whether as part of a book club or on their own time, derive multiple benefits.

While considering research material, students need to talk about whose voices are not at the table and think critically about how sources came to be.

Foster reading engagement, no matter the learning environment.

Help students approach critical reading and character inferences in a way that doesn't center the reader's experiences and interpretations.

The award-winning author partnered with Adventure Academy, a subscription-based digital education platform, to inspire kids to write.

Disinformation is surging. So are novel ways to counter it.

The News Literacy Project senior vice president for education and SLJTeen Live! lunchtime speaker answers your queries.

In quarantine, read-alouds remain a powerful way to engage young readers and support their long-term reading growth.

As access to physical books has become difficult during the pandemic, digital libraries, Zoom story times, and other resources help young students stay connected to books and stories.

Broadcasting is increasingly filled with citizen-generated content. But being a media producer also brings responsibilities.

Learning to read is a constitutional right, but functional literacy has never been equitably attained by Americans, says Miller. Here she offers tools of empowerment that enhance information and civic literacy.

The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results, showing that only 37 percent of fourth graders read proficiently, renewed debates over how to teach reading.

Follow this librarian's plan to get books into kids hands for the summer while ensuring safety for staff and families.

More schools are consider new ways to add news literacy and SEL to their teaching. There’s never been a better time to combine these efforts.

Experts shared advice on how to teach students to analyze information during an SLJ/ISTE webcast on critical thinking in the age of fake news, misinformation, and disinformation.

With students learning from home, Denver Public Schools' ebook and audio checkouts topped 51,000 in April. Here's how librarians are making that happen. 

“Imagine Your Story” is the focus of this year’s Collaborative Summer Library Program. These podcasts for elementary, middle, and high school students will keep their imaginations active. 

Four strategies to decode messaging and motive in meme design.

Tuscaloosa City Schools centered librarians in literacy efforts and has boosted reading engagement, raised test scores, and reinvigorated staff. The program's success can be a model for others, especially as schools and educators will need to come together to overcome the probable academic slide from school closures.

Teachers don't usually ask their students what they should teach. A middle school English teacher gained important insights when she spoke with her students about the kinds of books they want to read in class.

The award-winning author will post two videos a week to help inspire young people to write, along with a monthly newsletter for educators and parents.

April is National Financial Literacy Month. Libraries are doing their part to educate young people about concepts from budgeting to interest to help them be more economically resilient. 

The "Dog Man" and "Captain Underpants" author, country music icon, and Reading Rainbow legend start initiatives this week to help students, parents, and educators.

Noting a need for connection now more than ever, Pernille Ripp announced the Global Read Aloud choices today.

Librarians and ELA teachers can work together to strategize and develop a school-wide culture of independent reading.

The discussions in the spring set of free, one-hour professional development programs will tackle serving striving readers, information inequity, and news literacy.

Strategies to help students determine determine whether a video has been altered include analyzing what motivates people to create fakes in the first place. 

SLJ Editor-in-Chief Kathy Ishizuka on libraries and literacy.

Hi-lo books, graphic novels, and relevant narratives connect striving readers with books that engage them and boost literacy. 

The partnership benefits the New Jersey students, who are learning accessible design and to create with empathy and imagination, as well as the blind and visually-impaired kids, who not only get to play the games but have a voice in the process.

Increasing book access for young people boosts their chances for both personal and academic success. Donalyn Miller identifies common obstacles in schools and libraries, along with advice on how to reduce the negative impact on young readers.

It's more than just a day. Educators planned activities throughout the week, as teachers and school librarians changed schedules to prioritize and celebrate reading aloud.

News looks different depending on the device it's viewed on. Educators need to address that, say Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins in the first article in a series on news literacy.

Debates over leveling focus on how to best teach reading versus how to foster passionate readers who choose their own books. How did we get here?

Connect students with their favorite writers—and others they might not know yet—to create excitement around books.

To help the next generation learn the "fundamental life skill" of news literacy, the organizations will educate people of all ages on how to identify misinformation and the importance of a free press.

Librarians who add a little hip-hop, spoken word, and rap to their repertoire get students reading and writing. 

A bookmobile staffed by teen volunteers gives away high-demand YA titles to low-income students or those who are in foster care or experiencing homelessness.

Simple motor tasks and games boost young children's executive function and cognitive skills.

Students have traditionally accepted information in textbooks without question. But In high schools throughout the country, that's starting to change. 

Lack of English fluency, a multilingual media diet, and parents who may be unable to serve as gatekeepers are just a few of the issues facing immigrant students learning to distinguish credible stories from disinformation.

Several panels at the 2019 Association of American Librarians National Conference focused on the urgent need for better information literacy and advocating on behalf of school libraries. 

The Stanford History Education Group gave thousands of high school students "civic online reasoning" assessments to gauge their digital media literacy skills.

Fourth- and eighth-grade reading levels have declined since 2017, according to the Nation's Report Card from the National Center for Educational Statistics.

It's time to celebrate children's books and reading, tell Lerner about amazing librarians, and get excited for the sequel to a Newbery winner.

The new website provides teachers with information on Penguin Random House titles, teaching guides, and resources to improve student literacy.

High-profile educators like to talk about tech tools and other products they like. We need to know if they’re being paid to do so.

SLJ asked librarians to describe the best tools they could imagine to teach information literacy—and got more than simple answers.

School libraries are key to information literacy, and investment will drive impact.  

Evaluating sources and using information effectively is critical. The right tools and support can help librarians teach these skills better, according to SLJ’s survey of middle and high school librarians.

After receiving requests from parents, Osmo has created an educational game for children age 3-5 that seamlessly weaves digital and physical play.

While traditional storytime isn’t going away, public libraries are exploring new strategies to serve toddlers and preschoolers, from STEM for babies and Touchpoints for Libraries, to new guidance on screen time.

Getting more families into libraries is one goal of the FamLAB Project, which has tapped a cross-sector cohort to expand out-of-school learning opportunities for young children and their families.

Inspiring projects, discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and creating with—not just consuming—augmented and virtual reality were just some of the highlights of ISTE 2019.

Library Ideas debuts Immersive Reality Books, a new line of children’s nonfiction titles featuring integrated virtual reality and augmented reality content.

A new tool to help teach students which news outlets to trust; the UN releases its second book club list; and libraries are having their moment on Jeopardy! 

Colby Sharp, one of the creators of the first Nerd Camp, offers his advice for hosting your own version of the popular education camps with a literacy twist.

Elizabeth Atack and Klem-Mari Cajigas reworked their Bringing Books to Life! family literacy workshops for incarcerated teen dads, who recorded themselves reading books for their children.

The National Book Foundation today announced the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (WePAC) as the winner of the 2019 Innovations in Reading Prize.

High school English teacher Jarred Amato has guided his Nashville students and helped create a national, student-led, grassroots literacy and community service movement around middle grade and YA titles by authors including Kwame Alexander, Nic Stone, and Jason Reynolds.

More kids are reading less over the summer break, according to Scholastic's Kids and Family Reading Report: 7th Edition.

Children's Book Week turns 100, and the literacy initiative is providing free resources to help everyone mark the occasion.

Julia Torres challenged faculty to bring students to the school's collection and make independent reading part of the campus culture.

These exercises in visual communication and short story analysis can impact students' understanding of library instruction and information literacy.

Chelsea Clinton spoke to the crowd and read books to neighborhood kids after cutting the ribbon to officially open the space, which is a project of the Laundry Literacy Coalition.

Scholastic releases its latest Kids and Family Reading Report.

Judy Bryson, the library media teacher at W.A. Carter High School in the Rialto (California) Unified School District, believes that news literacy skills are critical to student success — inside and outside the classroom.

Visual literacy demands increasingly sophisticated tools to expand kids' critical skills.

Educating kids on how lighting, camera movement, sound, body language, and other film strategies convey meaning.

These titles jump-start important conversations about online conduct, safety, and ethics.

Focus on the individuals rather than the devices, and more strategies to address the causes of bad behavior online.

The creator of a mobile library serving children in Afghanistan, a middle school teacher-designer of a social justice course in West Philadelphia, and #1000BlackGirlBooks founder Marley Dias were named to the International Literacy Association’s “30 Under 30” list.

Baby-friendly card policies encourage literacy and library use from birth.

These discussion groups for kids in pre-K through third grade light up young readers.

Liz Kolb, presenter at the upcoming SLJ/ISTE webcast Digital Citizenship for Tweens and Teens, created a curriculum for Michigan middle schoolers to adopt safe, responsible, and respectful online behavior.

The new ISTE Standards for Educational Leaders broaden the scope of digital citizenship education for students. Here are up-to-date resources to help librarians promote these skills.

The adorable book-swap boxes weather criticism while spreading books around neighborhoods.

School Library Journal has relaunched “First Steps,” its early learning column, with two new co-authors.

From advertising to book-making to producing animated digital shorts: Is there anything this Latinx author-illustrator can’t do?

While classroom and school libraries share the larger goal of advancing literacy, they often serve different purposes—and compete for the same resources.

Try these projects and games with your students on Banned Websites Awareness Day (September 26), which seeks to raise awareness of overly restrictive filtering of educational websites and to explore the impact on intellectual freedom.