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"Margaret Kristin Merga outlines her compelling research into this area. Of particular interest is the role of librarians in schools in supporting struggling readers, as these students may be increasingly disadvantaged as they move through the years of schooling. Teacher librarians provided support by identifying struggling readers, providing them with age and skill-appropriate materials, undertaking skill scaffolding supporting choice, supporting students with special needs, providing one-to-one matching, promoting access to books, enhancing the social position of books and reading, reading aloud to students, facilitating silent reading, and preparing students for high-stakes literacy testing."

An excellent animation to promote reading, particularly for primary school boys.

Reading extension activities for Year 9 students. (All Saints Anglican School)

A wiki by Anita Beaman and Amy Oberts to try to mesh Web 2.0 interactive technologies with traditional books and reading.