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  • Bill would create group to study teaching of agriculture to Nebraska students - The Republic

    LITERACY NEWS - Google News
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:19 am
    Bill would create group to study teaching of agriculture to Nebraska studentsThe RepublicKate Sullivan of Cedar Rapids says an Agriculture Literacy Task Force should be created to study whether agriculture plays an adequate role in school curriculums. Her bill would set up a nine-member panel to study the issue. It is up for debate Tuesday and more »

  • The Missing Link: making the connection between information literacy and an excellent student experience

    Information Literacy Weblog
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:49 am
    On 19 March 2012, Birmingham City University Library and Learning Resources has a conference on its City South Campus, Birmingham, UK: The Missing Link: making the connection between information literacy and an excellent student experience."This conference is for you if you are interested in Information Literacy and if you would like to take advantage of some professional networking opportunities. The presentations and workshops/seminars will be focussing around the three themes of the conference: Inspirations, Innovations and Collaboration. The speakers are practitioners in the field of…

  • Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt to Appear in PBS KIDS Show "Martha Speaks"

    THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK AND LITERACY ALLIANCE
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am
    Animated PBS KIDS Show "Martha Speaks" Helps Kids Build Their Vocabularies February 20th Episode to Feature Jon Hamm and Jennifer WestfeldtThe PBS Kids show "Martha Speaks" stars a family dog named Martha. When she eats alphabet soup, the letters go to her brain instead of her stomach and she speaks!Actor Jon Hamm and writer/director/actress Jennifer Westfeldt will be appearing as themselves in a special two-part episode of "Martha Speaks" titled "Cora! Cora! Cora" on February 20. To watch a video from this upcoming episode, click here. To learn more about how "Martha Speaks" engages…

  • Toyota Teacher of the Year award doubles to $20,000

    National Center for Family Literacy
    ncfladmin
    4 Jan 2012 | 12:22 pm
    Double the award funding and a more inclusive focus are two of the new features for the 2012 Toyota Teacher of the Year award that NCFL is announcing today. The winning teacher’s program will receive $20,000, and educators who demonstrate exemplary educational practices in family learning and parent engagement are eligible for the award. The nomination form, which should be completed online, is due no later than Feb. 1. In addition to winning $20,000 for his or her program, the winner will receive a free trip to the 2012 National Conference on Family Literacy to be held March 25 through…

  • Free Phonics Stuff (Phree Fonics Stuph?)

    Shanahan on Literacy
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    A mother is doing her marketing with her 5-year-old in tow. She stops by the magazine rack and sees some children's workbooks aimed at teaching phonics. She pages through one of them and drops it into the grocery cart. This kind of scene plays out daily across America. Mothers want their kids to do well in school, and in grade 1 being able to read is "doing well." (It is no accident that so many grocery stores, drug stores, etc. sell such workbooks.)Such materials help kids to see the match between letters and sounds and a lot of kids like "playing school." I'd be hard pressed to say that…
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    LITERACY NEWS - Google News

  • Bill would create group to study teaching of agriculture to Nebraska students - The Republic

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:19 am
    Bill would create group to study teaching of agriculture to Nebraska studentsThe RepublicKate Sullivan of Cedar Rapids says an Agriculture Literacy Task Force should be created to study whether agriculture plays an adequate role in school curriculums. Her bill would set up a nine-member panel to study the issue. It is up for debate Tuesday and more »

  • Financial literacy course offered - Journal Inquirer

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:07 am
    Financial literacy course offeredJournal InquirerBy Journal Inquirer Staff MANCHESTER — The Manchester Neighborhood Academy is holding a free financial literacy class in February for adults who live, work, or attend school in town. Financial Education 101 will run for 11 weeks on Tuesdays 6 to 8 pm

  • Seven Bridges students will show their Norman Rockwell films at Jacob Burns - The Journal News | LoHud.com

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:32 am
    Seven Bridges students will show their Norman Rockwell films at Jacob BurnsThe Journal News | LoHud.com25 that will be shown today at the Jacob Burns Film Center along with those of nearly 100 of her classmates in the culmination of a unit on visual literacy. / Elizabeth Ganga / The Journal News CHAPPAQUA — Nearly 100 students from Seven Bridges Middle and more »

  • Former First Lady to speak at Bush Library - Huntsville Item

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:18 pm
    Former First Lady to speak at Bush LibraryHuntsville ItemHUNTSVILLE — Former first lady Barbara Bush will speak about the importance of literacy and read to thousands of elementary and middle school students at the fifth annual Reading Discovery and Distance Learning Program and Videoconference on Thursday Why "No Child Left Behind" Hasn't WorkedThe New Americanall 2 news articles »

  • Back to Classroom for Skills Not Taught in High School - New York Times

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:01 pm
    New York TimesBack to Classroom for Skills Not Taught in High SchoolNew York TimesMs. Gongón-Volmar asked the 11 students, who were in their third and final session of a financial literacy workshop. “Money,” “designer clothes,” “a car,” “a big house,” “a big TV,” “fame,” “a career,” the students called out.
 
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    Information Literacy Weblog

  • The Missing Link: making the connection between information literacy and an excellent student experience

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:49 am
    On 19 March 2012, Birmingham City University Library and Learning Resources has a conference on its City South Campus, Birmingham, UK: The Missing Link: making the connection between information literacy and an excellent student experience."This conference is for you if you are interested in Information Literacy and if you would like to take advantage of some professional networking opportunities. The presentations and workshops/seminars will be focussing around the three themes of the conference: Inspirations, Innovations and Collaboration. The speakers are practitioners in the field of…

  • Another journal special issue! Infolit policy

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:44 am
    Library Trends, volume 60 issue 2, Fall 2011, focuses on "Towards policy formulation" on information literacy, a special issue edited by John Crawford. This looks a very interesting issue! This is a priced journal.- Introduction: Information Literacy Beyond the Academy: Towards Policy Formulation; by John Crawford- Information Literacy Advocacy-Woody's Ten Commandments; by Forrest Woody Horton, Jr.- Trapped Between a Rock and a Hard Place: What Counts as Information Literacy in the Workplace and How Is It Conceptualized? by Annemaree Lloyd- How Information Literacy becomes Policy: An Analysis…

  • LILAC registration open

    25 Jan 2012 | 3:11 pm
    Booking is open for the LILAC 2012 (information literacy) conference to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 11-13 April 2012. There is now a Linked In group, a Facebook group and a Twitter feed (they are all linked from the LILAC home page, at the bottom).http://lilacconference.com/WP/Photo by Sheila Webber: lilac in a dickerware vase, 2005

  • Information Literacy in the Workplace

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:59 pm
    The new issue of Education Libraries, the open-access journal published by the Education Division of the (US) Special Libraries Association, focuses on workplace information literacy. This is Volume 34, Number 2; Winter 2011. Key articles are:Information Literacy and the Workforce: A Review; by Sharon Weiner21st Century Workforce Initiatives: A New Wave of Educational Reform Movements; by Laura L. LeavittFrom the Classroom to the Boardroom: The Impact of Information Literacy Instruction on Workplace Research Skills; by Tiffini TravisThere is also an annotated bibliography, which I'm happy to…

  • "Last Wednesday" infolit discussion

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:30 pm
    On Wednesday 25 January 2012 at 2pm USA Eastern Time (7pm UK time, 11AM US Pacific Time) there will be a "Last Wednesday" information literacy discussion using tinychat, sponsored by the ACRL (US Association of College and Research Libraries) Science and Technology Section’s Information Literacy Committee. To join the discussion, go to http://tinychat.com/steminfolit
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    THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK AND LITERACY ALLIANCE

  • Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt to Appear in PBS KIDS Show "Martha Speaks"

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am
    Animated PBS KIDS Show "Martha Speaks" Helps Kids Build Their Vocabularies February 20th Episode to Feature Jon Hamm and Jennifer WestfeldtThe PBS Kids show "Martha Speaks" stars a family dog named Martha. When she eats alphabet soup, the letters go to her brain instead of her stomach and she speaks!Actor Jon Hamm and writer/director/actress Jennifer Westfeldt will be appearing as themselves in a special two-part episode of "Martha Speaks" titled "Cora! Cora! Cora" on February 20. To watch a video from this upcoming episode, click here. To learn more about how "Martha Speaks" engages…

  • Presidential Trivia

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:26 am
    Have Fun Learning About America's Presidents by Playing Presidential Trivia! In honor of this year's presidential campaign, why not play some presidential trivia with the young people in your life?! Play in the car on your way to band practice or play while you're cleaning up the table after dinner!A perfect resource for creating questions is the NCBLA's interdisciplinary anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, and it's coordinating educational website OurWhiteHouse.org! An incomparable collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction, poetry, and a stunning array of…

  • American Library Association Announces 2012 Youth Media Award Winners

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:14 am
    Congratulations to All of This Year's ALA Youth Media Award Winners, Including Newbery Winner Jack Gantos and Caldecott Winner Chris Raschka!The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting in Dallas. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, ALA awards guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by judging committees of librarians and other…

  • ACTIVIST ALERT!

    20 Jan 2012 | 6:46 am
    Call Your Congressional Rep and Ask for Support of the SKILLS ACTEvery child in America deserves access to an effective school library program. This week, U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ, 7th), along with Representatives Rush Holt (D-NJ, 12th) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA, 6th) introduced the Strengthening Kids’ Interest in Learning and Libraries (SKILLS) Act. The SKILLS Act, numbered H.R. 3776 in the House, is a companion bill of S. 1328 that was introduced in the Senate by Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Thad Cochran (R-MS) back on July 6, 2011.Both the House and Senate version of the…

  • The Horn Book Publishes Its 2011 Fanfare List

    18 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Check Out the Horn Book's 2011 Fanfare List of 30 Great Books for Children and TeensThe Horn Book's Fanfare list spotlights their reviewers' and editors' choices for the very best books published for children and teens in 2011. Books in the fanfare list are categorized into Picture Books, Fiction, and Nonfiction. More than a simple list, the fanfare includes a short description of each book, as well as recommended reading levels for each. To see the entire list on hbook.com, click here. Why not take advantage of a cold winter afternoon or evening to visit your local library and…
 
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    National Center for Family Literacy

  • Toyota Teacher of the Year award doubles to $20,000

    ncfladmin
    4 Jan 2012 | 12:22 pm
    Double the award funding and a more inclusive focus are two of the new features for the 2012 Toyota Teacher of the Year award that NCFL is announcing today. The winning teacher’s program will receive $20,000, and educators who demonstrate exemplary educational practices in family learning and parent engagement are eligible for the award. The nomination form, which should be completed online, is due no later than Feb. 1. In addition to winning $20,000 for his or her program, the winner will receive a free trip to the 2012 National Conference on Family Literacy to be held March 25 through…

  • Past Libraries and Families Award winner Dallas Public Library releases new early literacy video

    ncfladmin
    22 Dec 2011 | 1:53 pm
    One of NCFL’s innovative library partners, the Dallas Public Library, recently released a great new video to help extend the reach of its Every Child Ready to Read @ Dallas program. Lily’s Book of Adventures — Adventures in reading for parents and childrenwas produced this summer to capture the program’s successful early literacy workshops for families who otherwise can’t participate. And a note to all of the great libraries out there with a passion and big ideas for working with families: The Dallas Public Library video project was made possible by a recent Libraries and Families…

  • NCFL board member Jason Falls featured in Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series

    ncfladmin
    14 Dec 2011 | 4:39 pm
    Verizon Thinkfinity is wrapping up its Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series with an expert voice who’s very close to NCFL’s heart. Jason Falls, NCFL board member and social media visionary, is the fifth influential speaker featured in this excellent series. In the interview, Falls speaks with Katrina Allen, program director of 21st century learning at St. Philip’s Academy in Newark, N.J. He stresses the need for educators to embrace social media in the classroom to expand learning opportunities. Since September, the Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series has also featured retired…

  • Promote healthy habits with these health literacy Wonders of the Day

    ncfladmin
    1 Dec 2011 | 3:51 pm
    Health care is a hot topic these days, and many families are placing more emphasis on staying healthy. With the holidays fast approaching — and New Year’s resolutions looming — what better time to start focusing on adopting healthy habits in your household? Becoming more healthy can be a great family goal in 2012. For the past nine weeks, Wonderopolis has focused on health and wellness topics every Wednesday. This health literacy Wonder of the Day series is sponsored by The Humana Foundation. Health and wellness is a multifaceted discipline. Teaching our families (and ourselves!) to…

  • Spark family conversations with these five Wonders of the Day

    ncfladmin
    23 Nov 2011 | 11:29 am
    The holiday season has rolled around again, beginning with tomorrow’s Thanksgiving feasts and Black Friday ads and then continuing for six more weeks until 2012 makes its debut. While many people find the holidays stressful, one of the best parts of the season can be the chance to reconnect with family. But that’s not always as easy as it sounds. The holidays can also bring travel hassles, money concerns and other worries. How do you make the most of your time with your family? Rather than rely on the expected “What have you been up to?” or “How’s school…
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    Shanahan on Literacy

  • Free Phonics Stuff (Phree Fonics Stuph?)

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    A mother is doing her marketing with her 5-year-old in tow. She stops by the magazine rack and sees some children's workbooks aimed at teaching phonics. She pages through one of them and drops it into the grocery cart. This kind of scene plays out daily across America. Mothers want their kids to do well in school, and in grade 1 being able to read is "doing well." (It is no accident that so many grocery stores, drug stores, etc. sell such workbooks.)Such materials help kids to see the match between letters and sounds and a lot of kids like "playing school." I'd be hard pressed to say that…

  • Cyndie Shanahan on Disciplinary Literacy

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:16 pm
    Cyndie and I published an article about disciplinary literacy in December: Analysis of Expert Readers in Three Disciplines: History, Mathematics, and Chemistry. This is the study in which we had historians, mathematicians, and chemists doing think alouds while they read, and from this we were able to compare how these experts from different disciplines read. Upon the publication of the study, Cyndie was interviewed about this work and that interview is available to you through the Voice of Literacy, a site I have lauded before in this space. I thought she did great and that you might find…

  • Disciplinary Literacy is NOT the New Name for Content Area Reading

    12 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pm
    Recently, Cyndie and I published a study on disciplinary literacy in the Journal of Literacy Research (Shanahan, C. Shanahan, T., & Misichia, 2011). In the study we report on our efforts to identify the special nature of literacy in three disciplines. We looked specifically at history, science (chemistry), and mathematics.The study was based on the theory that it would be useful to account for such information when teaching students to read. The idea is that if students were taught to read history in a way that corresponds to how historians read they'd be better equipped to handle such…

  • Parent Involvement

    3 Jan 2012 | 7:39 pm
    A friend of mine, Alfred Tatum, and some of our graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago developed a guide to encourage parent involvement in their children's learning (supported by Tavis Smiley). They gave me permission to post a copy of it for your use on my blog. One of the best parts of this guide is that it supports parent involvement not just in the early grades, but through high school. That is absolutely correct! Parents can play a specific and direct role in their children's learning. I hope you find it useful.

  • Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (Please)

    1 Dec 2011 | 10:32 am
    Last year at this time, I published an entry encouraging charitable donations to organizations that give books to children. It seemed to have been a popular blog and so I'm republishing the list of organizations that do that. This information was drawn from Charity Navigator and I limited the list to organizations that support literacy, particularly for poor children. The organizations that I selected all spend more than 80% of their funding on their programming, and provide books or services on more than a local basis (there are many terrific local organizations, too). Any organization on…
 
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    First Book Blog

  • MLK, The Obamas & First Book

    Rochee Jeffrey
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:52 pm
    “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Every year, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day presents us with an opportunity to renew our commitment to serving our communities. Yesterday, President Obama, Michelle Obama and First Book helped to refurbish a local elementary school library in Washington DC.  Together with a large group of volunteers, they cleaned,…

  • “It was too noisy at my house and I knew if I came to school I could find a quiet place to finish it.”

    Brian Minter
    9 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  • We Couldn’t Have Done It Without You

    Kyle Zimmer
    5 Jan 2012 | 1:47 pm
    We had a great year at First Book, thanks to the help of supporters like you. Together, we’re transforming the lives of millions of children in need by ensuring they have new books of their own to read. I want to take a moment to say thank you, and tell you what’s in store for the year ahead. We’ve spent 20 years building First Book, creating a pipeline for getting books and educational resources to programs serving kids from low-income families. That pipeline is uniquely effective, connecting almost 30,000 local schools and programs across the country with new, high-quality books…

  • It’s Almost Friendiversary! Get Your Books Today!

    Brian Minter
    4 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    We see that you have a sad face, because the holidays are over. Luckily, you are as wrong as you could possibly be, because the biggest, best, most excellent, excitingest, fanciest, greatest holiday of them all is on its way. Friendiversary! Yes! It’s true! Friendiversary 2012 will happen on Feb. 7! Or, maybe Feb. 8. Really, any day that week is fine, because Friendiversary is all about doing things in the best way possible. A Friendiversary, of course, is the anniversary of a friendship. Think of one of your oldest and dearest friends. When did you first meet? How did you meet? That…

  • It’s Not Too Late to Give New Books to Kids in Need

    Brian Minter
    30 Dec 2011 | 10:00 am
    Sunday is New Year’s Day, which means a lot of taking stock, figuring out what you want to do and how to finish all the things you meant to do last year. We hope that one of the things you choose to do before the New Year is provide new books to kids in need by including First Book in your end-of-year giving. Click here to donate now, and provide new books to kids in need This year, with your help … First Book distributed 8 million books to kids in need. First Book added 7,000 new schools and programs to our national network. First Book started local volunteer chapters in over a…
 
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  • We're Half Way There..Oh! Oh! Living on a Prayer!

    twistedbarista
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:18 pm
    Sometimes, looking at your life from the outside can appear a bit deceptive. For example, in the last week I gave an interview to The Times about how great my creative life is since graduating from the MA in Creative Entrepreneurship, I then took part in the advert for said course, and went back to talk to the current class about my achievements. This, surely, should mean that I’ve ‘Made It’, whatever and wherever ‘It’ is, right? So how come some things (like panicking about whether the kids you’re teaching are going to hate you and think you’re a…

  • Paint and make a rain shower.

    Ms Marisa
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pm

  • 5 days until NLAW!

    scalestaff
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pm

  • Washington, DC: Most Literate City In The Country AGAIN!

    Kristie McIntyre
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Some Of The DC Literate Elite! [photogallerylink id=52083 align=left]WE DID IT AGAIN, WASHINGTON!  We’re the most literate city in the USA for the second year in a row! (Of course, this puts a little pressure on me to eliminate any typos and grammatical errors in this blog post…). The list is put together by Central Connecticut State University President, Jack Miller.  President Miller ranks the cities based on numbers of bookstores, resources from  both libraries and the internet and newspaper circulation. The 2011 Top 10 Most Literate Cities In The USA: 1.

  • CPR for America -- ABC!

    Tom Cox
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:03 am
    Here is where we are: We walk into the room, and find our country, the United States of America, down on the floor, unconscious, not breathing, and with no pulse. Death is imminent. Triage is in order. Treat the immediately life-threatening conditions first. Then fix the underlying problems. The mnemonic used in CPR training, “ABC” (Airway, Breathing, Circulation), focuses on the order of importance of things in first-responder emergency care. Rescue breathing, for example, can’t happen without an open airway. Circulation, including cardiac compressions and stopping…
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