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Sarah L. Sansbury – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines how school librarians in Georgia's K-12 public schools foster positive reading cultures. Using qualitative research, it explores how librarians promote reading engagement by creating inviting library spaces, curating diverse collections, developing programs that encourage reading for pleasure and academic growth, and…
Descriptors: Librarians, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
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Ross, Natalie Hoyle – School Library Research, 2018
This paper reports findings of a qualitative collective case study and single case study that explored student reading motivation. This research focused on school librarians' perceived value of one children's choice award--the Bluestem Award--and its effect on school librarians' promotions and student behavior in the school library. Data were…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, School Libraries, Librarians, Library Role
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Melissa Williams – Knowledge Quest, 2022
Williams presents using personalized book baskets to connect learners to books that will ignite enthusiasm for reading, encourage expansion of reading genres, and allow the school librarian to understand and support students on a deeper level.
Descriptors: Books, Reading Motivation, School Libraries, Librarians
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Margaret Kristin Merga; Saiyidi Mat Roni – English in Education, 2025
Reading engagement influences students' literacy attainment. School library professionals provide resources, environments and guidance to promote reading for pleasure, but little is known about how this role is currently supported or challenged. Drawing on mixed methods survey responses from 971 school library professionals from 63 countries,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Libraries, Librarians, Reading Attitudes
Leanne Ellis – Knowledge Quest, 2024
This article is about what the future of reading looks like. Currently many districts across the country--including New York City--are adopting research-based methods called the science of reading that focus on mechanics. Leanne Ellis surmises the future of reading holds great promise if school librarians can promote, showcase, and advocate for a…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Motivation
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Jessica Fitzpatrick – Knowledge Quest, 2022
The athletic department and the school library at Mayde Creek High School in Texas have been collaborating to build literacy and leadership skills among the athletes on the varsity football team, and both the boys' and girls' varsity basketball teams through collaborative leadership book studies that are also sports-focused. Because of the success…
Descriptors: School Libraries, High Schools, Student Athletes, Books
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Wood, Clare; Clark, Christina; Teravainen-Goff, Anne; Rudkin, Georgina; Vardy, Emma – School Library Research, 2020
Although it has been argued that school libraries are important for supporting the reading engagement of pupils who receive free school meals, to date there has been little analysis of the extent to which use of school library spaces is related to these pupils' reading behaviors. We analyzed data from 6,264 children and young adults in the United…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Literacy, Psychological Patterns, Low Income Students
Churchill, Sara J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative multiple case study explored the factors that impact the recreational reading selections of gifted students. Eleven students in grades four and five participated in the study. The methods of data collection included in-depth personal interviews and analysis of library circulation records and independent reading program data. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Academically Gifted
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Kivanç Bozkus – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study aimed to employ machine learning techniques to uncover the pivotal determinants influencing the reading proficiency of fourth-grade students across 65 regions, as participants in the PIRLS 2021 assessment. The primary objective was to discern and assess key factors at the student, family and school levels that predict high and low…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Reading Skills, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Jennifer Gingerich; Michelle Adler – Kansas English, 2020
Research continues to demonstrate that motivated readers read more, yet too often students are not exposed to genres that might motivate them to continue reading. Further, students might not be encouraged to read outside their preferred reading genre. When students are unmotivated to read, they often do not read or do not finish the books they…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement, Student Motivation
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Hibbard, Laura; Franklin, Teresa – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
School libraries serve an important role; however, elementary students who attend schools online typically do not have a school library. This study followed an online school's inaugural year in instituting a library. A mixed methods approach examined data from focus groups, interviews, surveys, library-use records and oral reading fluency scores.…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Online Courses, Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Libraries
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Nichols, Sue; Loh, Chin Ee – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
Popular culture images of reading tend to portray readers as solitary individuals deeply immersed in reading a single text in a quiet, undisturbed spot. Yet, in our documentation of adolescent students reading in Singapore secondary schools, we find that there are many ways and modes of reading, much of which is social in nature. Through the use…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Reading Habits
Alto, Teresa – School Library Monthly, 2012
A century ago, a woman named Mary E. Hall convinced school leaders of the need for the professional school librarian--a librarian who cultivated a love of reading, academic achievement, and independent learning skills. After graduating from New York City's Pratt Institute Library School in 1895, Hall developed her vision for the high school…
Descriptors: High Schools, Librarians, School Libraries, Library Skills
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Nielen, Thijs M. J.; Bus, Adriana G. – AERA Open, 2015
We compared students from schools with an enriched school library--that is, one with a larger and more up-to-date book collection--with students from schools with a typical school library. We tested effects of an enriched school library on reading motivation, reading frequency, and academic skills. Fourth- and fifth-grade students of 14 schools…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Enrichment
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Bateman-Whitson, Jill – Knowledge Quest, 2011
It is important for students to be good readers. In order to encourage reading for the fun of it, the author developed a game plan for the library. In this article, the author discusses how to make the library the place to be. She suggests that librarians need to encourage students to read, read, read. They must make their libraries places of…
Descriptors: Library Services, Reading Motivation, Student Interests, Librarians
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