Using Comics to teach Literacy

A great interview with Tim Smyth, proponent of Graphic Novels in the Classroom led me to his website which has a fantastic array of tools to help promote this genre.

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Finland is winning the Information Wars

This is a heartwarming, at least to me the Librarian, tale, that shows how one country can fight fake news, raise literacy standards and create generations of critical thinkers: Finland is winning the war on disinformation.

Graphic Novels Belong in Your English Class. Here’s How to Use Them

A really great article on the benefits and uses of graphic novels in the classroom.

Experts fear we’ll soon be raising illiterate generations as Aussie kids’ speech issues hit worst levels

A really thought provoking article from a newspaper I normally don’t read.

I think my most important takeaway was the focus on reading out loud to our children. Working as a Reading Tutor in my tween’s school I notice this a lot, that children need to hear us read out loud.

Celebrating the World’s Languages – one story time at a time

A great post on one Librarian’s journey in:

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Monolingual in a Multilingual World Post

Summer is Coming: Preparing Yourself and Your Loved Ones for Summer Reading Programs

I absolutely loved this pragmatic and useful list of self care that the ALSC has published.

I find Self Care still the hardest gift I can give myself…..what’s yours?

Study Skills: Hack Your Degree

I love these simple Study Skills: Hack Your Degree.

I waited til I was in my mid forties to go back undertake the studies I really should have done in my twenties. I haven’t looked back. You’re never too old to learn….