Reading+and+literacy

Many issues on this topic have been loosely divided by campus where appropriate but the division is very arbitrary! **Research about reading:**  Following recent discussions about the legitimacy of reading aloud to children as a library lesson, Barbara Braxton has now written a blog post called The Read-Aloud Hat [] which explores why reading aloud to students is not only legitimate, but it is essential. There are links to research and The Art of Reading Aloud, a piece I written for her book review blog some time ago, which offers tips for doing it successfully so the listeners are engaged. You might like to read it in conjunction with The Reader Leader's Hat [] and The Reader's Hat [].  Reading and the effect on student academic achievement OECD. (2002). Reading for change: Performance and engagement across countries, Results from PISA 2000. Retrieved Feb 2014 from []

ACER. (2014). PISA Australia. Retrieved Feb 2014 from []

University of London Centre for Longitudinal Studies Bloog, J. (2013). Pleasure reading significantly increases student performance. Mediabistro Inc. Retrieved Feb 2014 from []

Institute of Education University of London. (2013). 1970 British cohort study. Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Retrieved Feb 2014 from []

Battye, C. & Budge, D. (2013). Reading for pleasure puts children ahead in the classroom, study finds. Centre for Longitudinal Studies, IOE Univeristy of London. Retrieved Feb 2014 from []

Reading from the screen - issues Birkerts, S. (2010). Reading in a digital age. The American Scholar, Spring. Retrieved Feb 2014 from []

Coiro, J. (2003). Reading comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies. The Reading Teacher, 56(6). Retrieved Sep. 1, 2010 from []

Corio, J. (2009). Rethinking reading assessment in a digital age. Educational Leadership, 66, 59-63. Retrieved Feb, 2014 from [] g_assessment_in_a_digital_age_How_is_reading_comprehension_different_and_wh ere_do_we_turn_now._Educational_Leadership_66_59-63

Australian Studies - reading success and the TL School Library Association of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. (May 2013). School libraries, teacher-librarians and their contribution to student literacy development in Gold Coast schools. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from []

Softlink Australian School Library Surveys 2013 - []

Australian School Library Association The Value of School Libraries in Learning []

**__Reading books that come in series.__** Why? __**General**__ To participate in a world wide program you could check out [|GiggleIT]. This is an online project with several facets including a competition. It would be useful for Library, English, ESL, and literacy blocks. Great ideas and projects from Rhonda Powling at Whitefriars College. Includes Book Trailers (little movies made by boys about books they have enjoyed) and assessment rubrics for assessing reading etc. Grammatical knowledge for teachers, a great site from the [|UK]. A great wiki for helping boys with reading and encouraging their participation and aimed at teachers and parents. Interactive online activities to assist with [|literacy], memory, developing ICT skills etc Cogdogroo is a website that shows students how to tell stories. Have a look!  Writing Fun by Jenny Eather: [] Text type templates to support a whole school literacy program on their library website. The Literacy Strategy PDF may be of interest as a whole school approach. []. Writing competitions for Australian students: []

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 * __Literacy and numeracy week 2010__**

**__Teens reading in English as a second language:__** According to US Census data, 21% of youth between the ages of 5 - 17 speak a language other than English in the home. Please help YALSA build a list of recommended reads for teens (ages 12 - 18) who are English Language Learners (ELLs). Titles in English that portray, affirm or celebrate a culture as well as titles in the ELL's first language are welcome. Click on the link below to begin adding your recommended titles: []

The titles you add to the wiki will help YALSA develop content for a free pamphlet of recommended reads for teen English Language Learners. The pamphlet is generously funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Thanks for all that you do to get more teens reading!

[] shows a variety of techniques for literacy enhancement. Teaching literacy the e5 instructional way []

Great dictionary/thesaurus at [|One Look]! Online [|thesaurus.] Great tool for learning new [|vocabulary] can be found at vocabsushi. Would be good for all ages and subjects by the looks of it! A fun way to find out what words mean, which links [|meanings] to photos from Flickr. Very useful too! Merriam Webster's Visual [|Dictionary] has some great games and brain exercises as well as the capacity to show the expected meaning of words. Use of apostrophes [] and spelling: [] To help with writing try [|writing fix]. Another site for helping to teach and learn about the writing [|process.]
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**The Literacy Block –Prep to Year Six** [] **Spelling for Year 5 & 6:** [] **Reading Interactives for Prep to Year 2** [] **Teaching Handwriting** [] Ideas for spelling [|strategies].
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For information on BOOKS click here A great site set up by Penguin where Primary students can write their own [|stories.] **__WEBSITE TO CHECK OUT__** A brilliant website with easy to teach and implement strategies for your English (other other disciplines that require reading!) programme. []

The **Just Read Now** strategies can be **//__ applied across academic disciplines and learner levels. __//**These strategies are subdivided into the following four areas of concentration:
 * **//Discussion Strategies//** - strategies that promote discussion in whole group or small group settings
 * **//Active Reading Strategies//** - strategies that promote active involvement and thinking with the text
 * **//Vocabulary Strategies//** - strategies that promote vocabulary development and understanding
 * **//Organization Strategies//** - strategies that provide an organizational structure to assist in text comprehension."

Multiliteracies Notes from Professional Learning at the National Gallery of Victoria, November 2009. Includes links, responding text **visually plus music**, and **graphic novel** information. What is transliteracy? [] Transliteracies []

Fantastic games etc on reading:[] including Macbeth!