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Direct linkIntner, Carol F. – ALA Editions, 2011
Children's and young adult librarians are crucial links to effective learning for students. This straightforward handbook is filled with nuts-and-bolts advice on the best ways to help young people with their homework, no matter what the assignment. Carol F. Intner, a certified English teacher and experienced tutor, concentrates on the practical,…
Descriptors: Homework, Outreach Programs, Young Adults, Teaching Methods
Smith, Susan Sharpless – ALA Editions, 2010
Expanding on the popular, practical how-to guide for public, academic, school, and special libraries, technology expert Susan Sharpless Smith offers library instructors the confidence to take Web-based instruction into their own hands. Smith has thoroughly updated "Web-Based Instruction: A Guide for Libraries" to include new tools and…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Special Libraries, Educational Technology, Internet
Anderson, Dee – ALA Editions, 2008
Because they're quick and fun to read, riddles can "hook" even reluctant readers and keep them coming back for more. Riddles also improve vocabulary, comprehension, and oral reading; enhance deductive and inductive thinking skills; and promote libraries as places for fun. Drawing on her work with children in schools and public libraries, Dee…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Oral Reading, Public Libraries, Library Skills
Buckingham, Melissa; And Others – 1986
This curriculum guide, written by experienced teachers of adults in Philadelphia, describes a full curriculum for intermediate-level adult literacy students (students who have basic reading skills). The curriculum is based on the assumption that adult students deserve a broad, well-rounded education. The guide also discusses teaching techniques…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, Books
Peer reviewedWikel, Nancy – Emergency Librarian, 1995
Describes two main groups of home schoolers, "ideological" and "pedagogical." Highlights include a family's success with nondirective teaching; teaching styles; religious factors; the social impact; research results about use of public libraries; and 12 suggestions of how libraries can serve home schoolers information needs.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Educational Principles, Educational Quality
Vandergrift, Kay E. – 1994
This book illustrates the roles of the school library media specialist as instructional consultant and teacher as well as information specialist and frames these roles in a background of relevant educational concerns. Chapter 1 surveys current efforts to restructure the education system and stresses the importance of the school library media…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Educational Technology
