CSU_TLship

"Today's children will be tomorrow's leaders in the battle against climate change, so it's vital that kids understand the concept of sustainable living from an early age. Research shows that modelling or teaching by example has a greater effect on children's behaviour than simply telling them what to do. So if you're looking to emphasise the importance of sustainable living, start by evaluating your own habits to see if there are areas you can improve in."

Mali Jorm webiste that outlines the three spheres: Readers, Researchers and Thinkers. Video support and downloadable posters are available.

"The Socratic Circle approach is a structured, dialogic and student-driven discussion that takes place with the teacher as guide and facilitator rather than as a 'sage on the stage' (King, 1993)."

"TheToyZone has mapped the most popular books for kids written by a local writer in every country (that is, the highest-rated among the 20 books with the most user ratings.) And we've even pictured the book covers."

"Literacy is one of the core goals of education, and school libraries are uniquely positioned to provide leadership in literacy promotion to their educational community."

Support for using Goolge Earth for mapping projects

The site allows users to create a narrative story using locations

Promoting literature during home schooling - a range of ideas, some will transfer back to the library for ongoing activities

"Picture Books as an Introduction to a Primary Source Activity In some other picture book and primary source pairings, the picture book provides contextual understanding of an event or a person. In this instance, there is not a single event that Wittenstein and Howdeshell's book focuses on. Instead, the passage of time is a driving factor in the story." Based on the book Oscar's American Dream.

"We investigated the diversity - including ethnicity, gender and sexuality - of the 118 shortlisted books in the early childhood category of Book of the Year between 2001 and 2020. We also examined diversity among the 103 authors and illustrators who have made the shortlist over the past 20 years."

"A close collaborative analysis of the text and graphics on book covers makes for a powerful literacy activity."

"Our Automatic Readability Checker takes a sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, syllables, and characters in your sample. Our program takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into seven popular readability formulas. These readability formulas (see below) will let you know the reading level and grade level of your text and help you determine if your audience can read your writing."

"In the quest to build capable readers, promoting independent, self-selected reading remains key. Creating ravenous, lifelong readers doesn't just happen, it takes a schoolwide culture to help reach that goal."

"The COVID-19 crisis has fast-tracked educators' experience of remote learning. This has created the opportunity to explore different digital tools to engage, communicate and connect with students. An openness to explore and embrace new technologies is hopefully one that will continue beyond the pandemic, and lead to innovative, and future-focused pedagogies. However, increasing use of technologies is accompanied by increasing digital security risks. "

"Creating eye-catching, timely book displays that young people discover what they want to read is a time-honored tradition for school and youth librarians. With students all over the country learning from home, many librarians are creating digital displays and using online tools and platforms to showcase their books and other resources."

A book review site with age and genre lists, some resources and up to date content - US focus

"20 Minutes to Excellent Research is an activity for use by school librarians designed to briefly show students how to locate more than a dozen credible academic sources of information on any topic in less than 30 minutes."

" how reading trauma is inflicted on students and what librarians can do to interrupt and prevent that trauma from occurring. "

"We know teacher librarians and school libraries play an important role in supporting young people's reading and broader academic achievement. But school libraries play a more diverse role in students' lives, among which is to support their well-being. Here are five ways they do this."

"That tension between Seuss and Seuss-free classrooms is emblematic of a bigger debate playing out across the country - should we continue to teach classic books that may be problematic, or eschew them in favor of works that more positively represent people of color?"