Competency 9: Internet

http://www.readingrockets.org/

Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.

The Reading Rockets project is comprised of PBS television programs, available on videotape and DVD; online services, including the web sites ReadingRockets.org and ColorinColorado.org; and professional development opportunities. Reading Rockets is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by a major grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.

This website provides strategies to help kids who struggle with reading, techniques for teaching reading, and great kid’s books and authors. Research articles on the top of struggling readers.

This website was found using the Google search engine.

Competency 8: Images

Personality Types In the School Library

This image comes from the Librarian Sisters website, Karen Woodworth-Roman, a former MLS student who wrote a paper which looks at how personality types affect children’s learning styles and choice of reading materials. This could aid in suggesting books to students that have characters with similar or contrasting personality types. Since, my topic is motivating reluctant readers this could be a different avenue to reach reluctant readers. This would definitely be a tool that could aid in helping students explore different types of books.

I located this picture using Google Images using the search term: school library and reluctant readers

Copyright Link: www.librarians.info/YA/ptype.html

Competency 7: Research Visual/Multimedia

A graph from U.S. Department of Education, NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) for Education Statistics was included because it shows how significant reading for fun is for student achievement. There is statistical research that shows that motivating reluctant readers to read for pleasure will assist in improvement in student achievement.

Copyright Link: (2007). National Endowment for the Arts. To Read or Not To Read, Retrieved from
http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html

Competency 6d: Citation Pearl

Database: WorldCat
Search Query: Reaching Reluctant Young Adult Readers: A Handbook for Librarians and Teachers by Edward T. Sullivan

Descriptors:
Preteens -- Books and reading -- United States. Teenagers -- Books and reading -- United States. Reading (Middle school) -- United States. Reading promotion -- United States. Children's literature -- Bibliography. Young adult literature -- Bibliography.

First 2 results:

1. Comics to classics : a parent's guide to books for teens and preteens / Author: Reed, Arthea J. S. Publication: Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, 1988
Document: English : Book Libraries Worldwide: 964

2.Best books for middle school and junior high readers : grades 6-9 / Author: Gillespie, John Thomas, 1928-; Barr, Catherine, Publication: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004
Document: English : Book Libraries Worldwide: 757

Reflection: I found a book for reaching reluctant readers from the ages of 10 -15 years old which was still within my topic area. From the subject descriptors I chose preteens which had 29 hits. I think the subject descriptor lead me to books that were more on topic than the originial book (Naked Reading: uncovering what tweens need to become lifelong readers and Books that don't bore 'em which were all in the top 10 results).

Competency 6c: Successive Fractions

Search Query: school library and the reluctant reader

Database: LexisNexis
S1 = reluctant readers - 998 hits
S2 = school library - 998 hits
S1 and S2 - 17 hits

First 2 results:
1.
Want to be stylish? Grab a good bookThe Western Mail, March 8, 2007, Thursday, NEWS; Pg. 20, 584 words, Abbie Wightwick Western Mail

2.
Never ending storiesThe Age (Melbourne, Australia), October 23, 2008 Thursday, METRO; Life & Times; Pg. 18, 782 words, Annie Lawson

Reflection: I was surprised that S1 and S2 separately had the same number of hits 998 and relieved that after deciding to do a Successive Fraction search after the specific facet my results were more manageable with 17 hits. The 17 results had several articles focused on drawing in the reluctant reader from making reading fun to actively involving the reluctant reader in the process of selection.

Competency 6b: Specific Facet

Search Query: school library and the reluctant reader

Database: Library Lit and Info.
Search:
school library reluctant readers = 44 hits
school libraryand reluctant readers = 53 hits
reluctant readers = 206 hits

First 2 results:

1 Newsmaker: Jon Scieszka. American Libraries v. 39 no. 5 (May 2008) p. 31

2 Rosenzweig, S. Books that hooked 'em: reluctant readers shine as critics [students at Rhode Island's Woonsocket Middle School recommend books for YALSA's Quick picks 1996]. American Libraries v. 27 (June/July 1996) p. 74-6

Reflection:
I started my search with the main facet "reluctant readers" which resulted to many hits (206)After narrowing my specific facet search I still had more than 30 hits but I decided to stop here and do a successive fractions search even though the hits seemed helpful it was to many to sort through.

Competency 6a: Building Block Search

Database: ERIC FirstSearch

Search Strategy:

S1 = struggling readers or reluctant readers
S2 = library or school library media center
S3 = encourage or motivate
S1 and S2 and S3 = 7 hits

Actual Strategy: (kw: struggling reader or kw: reluctant readers) and (kw: library or kw: school library media center) and (kw: motivate or kw: encourage).

First 2 results:

1. Falling for Fall Reading Games: Great Stories for the SeasonPreview . By: Maxwell, D. Jackson. Library Media Connection, v23 n2 p46 Oct 2004. (EJ717657)
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2. No Time, No Interest, No Way! The Three Voices of Aliteracy: Part 2.Preview . By: Beers, G. Kylene. School Library Journal, v42 n3 p110-13 Mar 1996. (EJ521775)
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Reflection: The building block strategy is a helpful search tool was you identify the synonyms that will be most helpful in your search. My first search using only general terms created 59 hits but the hits were not relevant to my topic. I changed my search words and received fewer hits but the hits were very relevant to my topic. I believe in this particular search less is more, out of the 7 hits only 1 hit was not helpful.

Competency 5: Tagging/Indexing

Here is the tag cloud for the book What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs by Richard L. Allington.:

372.43(1) Curriculum Resources(1) desk room(1) Education(3) instruction(1) Instructional Materials(1) Language Arts(1) Literacy(2) prof. reading(1) Professional book(1) reading(5) Reading Instruction(1) reading remediation(1) research(1) struggling readers(2) teacher resource(1) teaching(1) teaching education reading literacy(1)

I selected this book for my blog because it provides research and practices that teachers can use to develop methods for helping children with reading difficulties, sometimes reluctant readers are struggling readers. The key is getting adolescents to read. Reading is a common tag (5) users agree.

LibraryThing link: http://www.librarything.com/work/574899

Competency 4: RSS Feed

I added the RSS feed from Reading Rockets (http://www.readingrockets.org) on the right side of this blog. The website offers a wealth of resources for sharing the joy of reading with children. This website highlights great books, authors to assist with unlocking the love of reading. I added the feed "Today's Reading News" because it provides a weekly news headline about reading and early education.

Competency 3: Podcasts

I used Google.com to perform the search "podcasts on reading." I found this podcast: Reading Rockets which is a national multimedia project that offers research-based and best practice information on teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. I selected from Podcast and Videos: An interview with author Jon Scieszka on Reading Motivation, which is located at this url:

http://origin.eastbaymedia.com/~weta/asx/reading_motivation.asx

I selected this podcast because it discusses the way this author as a teacher motivated students to read.

Competency 2: Related Blog

I used Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com/?ui=blg to search for blogs. The Joy of Children's Literature blog was selected because it is maintained by a professor of children's literature and literacy methods. This blog is related to my topic because it provides current related topics and valuable resources to aid in motivating the young reader.

From the site http://thejoyofchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/:

Webcast focuses on struggling readers


A free School Library Journal webcast sponsored by Capstone Publishers will bring together a panel of experts in reading, media center services, and children’s literacy--including school librarians, educators, and a representative from Capstone Press and Stone Arch Books--to cover a range of processes, programs, and ideas that can bolster reading skills, comprehension, and literacy in the K-6 library and classroom. The webcast will be held from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern time on Wednesday, October 8.



Attendees will learn best practices to engage struggling and reluctant readers, discover multi-level reading resources for classroom and school library integration, and pick up techniques and programming ideas that will encourage the use of fiction and nonfiction. Time will be reserved for questions and answers at the end of the webcast.

Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008

Competency 1: Introduction

This blog is created by a student for TWU's LS class 5013 Information Storage and Retrieval in order to help provide an example of the competencies and in order to satisfy the requirements of ISAR.

My topic will be reluctant readers with an emphasis on children. The library type will focus on public school libraries.