Suggestions for curation, displays, word study activities, and more.
As reading instruction swings toward phonics, librarians need to stay in the game with decodables. These suggestions, plus a sampling of publishers' offerings, will help.
Suggestions for teaching strategies, prompt-writing skills, and tools, plus an overview of those ethical questions.
Readers had their say about "Dictionaries on the Chopping Block," the latest Scales on Censorship column, and more.
These books nurture literacy, empathy, and understanding.
Walnut Grove Elementary School librarian Holly Whitt and third grade classroom teacher Lori Alexander created their own professional development program to meet their students needs. The pair financed the program through a grant from Fund for Teachers.
We need more than ever inclusive ways to socialize with family, friends, and neighbors. In this list, two dozen books about kindness offer a recalibration or supplement to manners to account for the many ways our cultures, families, and differences manifest practices of getting along with one another.
Librarians share views on the best way to help kids get ready to read.
A survey from SLJ revealed the extent to which individual librarians have faced hostility from community members, organizations, and in some cases, their administration.
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