Literature for Children and Young Adults

I will be using my blog as a site to post my book reviews for my class in Literature for Children and Young Adults from Texas Women's University for the 2008 Fall Semester.

Internet Competency

I searched on Google using the term Texas school libraries and found the website for the Texas Association of School Librarians, which is a division of the Texas Library Association.
Upon visiting the site, I found several links to useful information for school librarians plus local conferences to be attended. Texas is divided up into districts, so each district has its own conference.
I found this to be a practical site for a school librarian in that the association provides networking and training for members along with the much-needed advocacy.
URL: http://www.txla.org/

Social Networking- MySpace

I found this site under MySpace. I'm still not competent in that area even though when I went to MySpace I saw that my daughter had her own email listed on it!
This group based out of Fort Worth/Dallas is an online book club for people who just like to read.
Even though my blog site is based on school librarians, I like to read and am willing to bet that most librarians like to also.

Group Url: http://groups.myspace.com/libraryfolks
Ladies & Lads of Library Land

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Category: Literature & Arts
Type: Public Membership Founded: 23 Jun 2004, 11:40 PM Location:: DFW, Texas - US Members: 1008

Multimedia Competency

My blog site topic is how librarians can help teachers and how to increase students' reading.
I found a flow chart created by the librarian for her junior high school in New Jersey. This would be a nice visual for students to refer to when they are in the library for research.


Web site created by Kathy Rohr, LibrarianWest Essex Junior High SchoolURL: http://euclid.westex.org/krohr

One Last Search

Creating a citation pearl from the ASP hit on improving student literacy, I used the terms "literacy", "motivation", and "reading". WorldCat on TWU's database returned 115 hits. I limited the search to the years 2000-2007. The first two looked promising:


Engaging young readers : promoting achievement and motivation / Author: Baker, Linda.; Dreher, Mariam Jean. Publication: New York : Guilford Press, 2000
Document: English : Book Internet Resource Libraries Worldwide: 681 TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIV LIBR
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2.
Literacy and young children : research-based practices / Author: Barone, Diane M.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel. Publication: New York : Guilford Press, 2003
Document: English : Book Internet Resource Libraries Worldwide: 661 TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIV LIBR
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Specific Facet First

Searching again, this time in ASP in the TWU database. Using the exact phrase, "improving student literacy" resulted in one hit again. Still, it looks like a good one.

Improve Student Literacy: Pick Up a Book and Read.Find More Like This
Authors:
Bouchard, David
Source:
Teacher Librarian; Feb2003, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p63, 1p
Document Type:
Article
Subject Terms:
*LITERACY*MOTIVATION (Psychology)*READING
Abstract:
Presents an article on improving student literacy by reading. Factor needed to motivate children to read; Advantages of reading; Key to reading in schools.
Full Text Word Count:
865
ISSN:
1481-1782
Accession Number:
9067009
Persistent link to this record:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9067009&site=ehost-live
Database:
Academic Search Complete
View Links:
Available TWU catalog
Notes:
This title is available at the TWU Library

Successive Fraction

Continuing with my search on how to improve students' literacy by using the school library, I entered the database of Library Lit on the Texas Women's University website.

I limited my search to s1 student reading achievement AND s2 assessment and narrowed the search down to the years between 2000 and 2007. Surprisingly, the search gave exactly 1 hit, but it seems to be a good one and right on the topic. It is posted below:


Title:
A reading report card for library media specialists
Personal Author:
Barron, Daniel D.
Journal Name:
School Library Media Activities Monthly
Source:
School Library Media Activities Monthly v. 18 no. 5 (January 2002) p. 48-51
Publication Year:
2002
ISSN:
0889-9371
Language of Document:
English
Abstract:
An overview of the findings from the federally mandated survey of student achievement known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress is provided. A discussion of what these results mean for library media specialists and suggestions to help library media specialists improve children's reading skills are provided.
Subject(s):
Children's reading/Educational aspects; National Assessment of Educational Progress
Document Type:
Feature Article
Database:
Education; Library & Information Science
Accession Number:
200200100762018
Persistent URL:
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