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Peer reviewedBagley, Norman E., IV – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 2000
Describes a program at the Waterford Public Library (New York) that expanded existing outreach efforts to children in local preschools and a local childcare center, while adding services to a preschool play group. Discusses costs, the creation of story kits that included picture books and related activities, and evaluation results. (Contains 16…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Costs, Day Care Centers, Evaluation Methods
Winkel, Lois – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Discusses the link between adequately developed, current school library collections and better student achievement and highlights the importance of having students become successful critical readers. Offers suggestions for encouraging reading, including knowing the materials in the collection, knowing the students to meet their needs, building on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Critical Reading, Library Collections, Library Material Selection
Peer reviewedJones, Patrick; Fiorelli, Dawn Cartwright; Doiron, Ray; Scieszka, Jon; Haupt, Allison; Cox, Ruth E.; Martin, Robie; Dahlhauser, Julie – Teacher Librarian, 2003
Includes seven articles that discuss overcoming obstacles to getting teenage boys to read. Highlights include what teacher-librarians can do; what boys see as obstacles; material selection; collection organization; gender issues; learning differences; magazines; lunchtime book discussion groups; motivating boys as beginning readers; and popular…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Gender Issues, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedEverhart, Nancy; Angelos, Susan; McGriff, Nancy – Knowledge Quest, 2002
Discussion of free voluntary reading focuses on a study that tracked students' reading progress in reading motivation programs in elementary and secondary schools. Topics include standardized test results for sixth graders; media center collections and circulation statistics; and correlation of total reading minutes and total reading score. (LRW)
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 6, Learning Resources Centers
Download full textFroese, Victor – 1997
There is great interest in the effect of school resources on academic achievement, but it is seldom that an opportunity arises in which this relationship may be examined in an international milieu. This paper presents the types of resources available in the 27 countries participating in the International Association for the Evaluation of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Information, Educational Finance, Educational Resources
Shoham, Snunith – 1997
The elementary school regards the development of reading skills and the cultivation of free reading among the students as one of its tasks. One of its ways of achieving this is to operate libraries in the school. Some schools provide only a central library. Some societies or locales, however, also believe in operating classroom collections in the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classroom Design, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
