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Literacy
Libraries essential to national reading efforts - ALA
The role of books, libraries, technology, and culture in children’s lives: An international case study
Allison Druin, University of Maryland
Excerpts from Jim Trelease's The Read Aloud Handbook
* On successful libraries.
* On user-friendly libraries.
* On television.
New on the endangered species list: The book worm - Christian Science Monitor
Childhood
literacy: Early efforts yield lifelong results from the University
of Minnesota's Children, Youth and Family Consortium
Critical
Issue: Addressing Literacy Needs in Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse Classrooms
From Australia: Children Prefer TV, Reading and Computer Games
to Sport and Art
Guys Read -
A literacy initiative for boys from early readers, to older youth.
Heavy
Reading Reaps Rewards: Computer-Based Programs Help Students
Learn to Love Books, but Others Question Point System (Washington
Post)
Literacy
in America - The crisis you don't know about, and what we can
do about it. Published in September/October issue of Book
Magazine.
Reading
Programs
On Reading
Programs and Materials, from the International Reading Association
Reading
Rockets Summer Book Club. Includes online discussion events
and author chat. From Washington, DC, public television WETA.
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