Children Read Aloud to Therapy Dogs to Boost Literacy Skills & Confidence Sometimes, you just need a helping paw when learning to read, and that’s exactly the mission behind programs all over the world that pair children with therapy dogs for reading practice. View this post on Instagram Congratulations Read more…
More than a quarter–26 percent–of American adults admit to not having read even part of a book within the past year. That’s according to statistics coming out of the Pew Research Center. If you’re part of this group, know that science supports the idea that reading is good for you on several levels. Reading fiction can help Read more…
Randy Lynn – Educator kidscodems.org @RandyInMS I first developed an interest for computing in the 1980s after my mother purchased an Apple IIe computer for our family,” Randy Lynn explains to us. His story isn’t too different from all the kids that grew up with a BBC Micro in the Read more…
Talking to Cyberbullied Kids—and to Bullies Educators can play a key role in helping these students move forward with resilience. Adolescence is a time of upheaval, though teenagers as a whole are kind, brave, and resilient. As a clinical psychologist who works with teens, I see these traits on display Read more…
American Democracy is Fracturing. Libraries Say They Know How to Help Don’t mess with libraries. One economist learned that lesson the hard way in July after posting a story on Forbes arguing that Amazon should replace local libraries to save taxpayers money. The collective outrage of librarians and Twitter was so Read more…
The English Language’s Most Successful Export Is A Joke Here’s a quiz: let’s say you’re setting off to see the world and aside from please and thank you in a smattering of languages you pretty much only know English. What is the one word that most of the people you encounter will also know? Read more…
National Library Week 2018 Join us this year during National Library Week 2018 from April 9 -14 as we celebrate how “Libraries Lead” at our NERL public library branches. National Library Week is a yearly event designed to highlight the many services and contributions of our nation’s public, school, academic Read more…
THE GREAT AMERICAN READ PREMIERES TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2018 8/7C THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part television and online series designed to spark a national conversation about reading and the books that have inspired, moved, and shaped us. The series will engage audiences with a list of 100 diverse Read more…
American Library Association announces 2018 Youth Media Award Winners The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards—at its Midwinter Meeting in Denver, Colorado. A list of all the 2018 award Read more…
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. As a young man, Kazuo Ishiguro wanted to be a singer and songwriter. He Read more…