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Welcome to the electronic edition of Whose History? Engaging History Students through Historical Fiction .

the Cornell Method. The Cornell Method was invented about sixty years ago (see Walter Pauk's 1962 classic How to Study at College, now in its tenth edition), though I only found out about it last month. It incorporates a lot of what I was doing already-providing spaces for notes, and margins for reactions, connections and comments. But it takes it further, and adds some very cool functions. Firstly, the template gives you less space to write notes. Y

The Australian Kids & Family Reading Report™ is a national survey of children aged 6-17 and their parents, as well as parents of children aged 0-5, exploring their reading attitudes and behaviours around reading books for fun. This is the first edition in Australia with past surveys conducted in the US bi-annually since 2006. 695 pairs of children and adults from the same household completed the survey, along with 358 parents of children aged 0-5. The survey was fielded between November 19, 2015 and November 27, 2015.

n 2004, the US publishing house Scholastic published the research foundation paper School libraries work! (Scholastic Library Publishing, 2004). This document presented position statements from a variety of organisations from around the world and findings of empirical studies conducted in the past decade of research which has focused on the impact of school libraries and teacher librarians on learning outcomes. The 3rd edition of this document was published in 2008.

These guidelines have been developed to assist school library professionals and educational decision-makers in their efforts to ensure that all students and teachers have access to effective school library programs and services, delivered by qualified school library personnel.

This site explores approaches to address learning needs of minority student populations and presents a strong case for the use of non-fiction texts to build comprehension and increase fluency and to tap into students' personal interests to increase engagement

Student lesson plan on creating Book Bento Boxes including guidelines, use of Thinglink to add annotations to images along with a tutorial

Collation of links for using images - from tech skills, copyright and finding free to use material