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Student literacy is a perennial concern in and across nations, with
measurement and accountability continually ramped up at both
individual student and school levels. Debates about literacy and
how it can best be improved are never far from media headlines.
However, relatively little consideration is given to the role that
school libraries and their staff play in building and maintaining
student literacy, despite research linking school libraries and
qualified staff to student literacy gains. With the number of
students who struggle with basic literacy skills increasing in many
nations, school libraries can play an important role in improving
the academic, vocational and social outcomes for these young
people, thereby increasing their opportunities. Fostering student
wellbeing is also a key priority for schools given the challenges
young people face in current times. This book seeks to promote
greater understanding of the links between reading, literacy and
wellbeing that could help students cope with these challenges, and
the role of the school library in leading this approach. It
explores the current role of school library professionals and
highlights how literacy and wellbeing education and support sit
within this, paying specific attention to how school library
professionals build reading engagement and promote student
wellbeing through various approaches, such as fostering health
literacy and creating nurturing environments. Readers will be
empowered to build a case for the importance of their role and
library, and audit their current literacy and wellbeing offerings,
and adjust or extend them where applicable based on best practice.
The book also explores some of the many challenges facing school
libraries and their professional staff that may need to be
mitigated to ensure that they can reach their full potential for
supporting student literacy and wellbeing.
Identifies evidence-backed and easy-to-implement strategies for
encouraging young people to read, and helps you to position your
library as an indispensable resource for supporting reading. While
most reading research focuses on young children, this book looks at
how to support reading beyond the early years and into adulthood.
Reporting on strong, peer-reviewed research supported by sound
theoretical and methodological approaches, it emphasizes the
practical implications of these findings, sharing what this means
for you in terms of how you can be a powerful positive reading
model and influence in young people's lives. Enriched with the
voices of today's young people, the book includes quotes that allow
readers to decide how to support reading engagement for tweens and
teens based on what would make them read more, as expressed in
their own words. Engaging and readable, it will be of interest to
school and public librarians and can be shared with teachers,
parents, and other literacy instructors and advocates. Considers
strategies for countering the biggest barriers to reading as
identified by young people Explains how to most effectively
implement common strategies to support reading engagement at your
school, such as implementing sustained silent reading, having
conversations about books, and reading aloud to older children
Offers strategies for promoting awareness of the ongoing value of
reading and for teaching parents and teachers to encourage reading
beyond the point of independent reading skill acquisition Moves
away from generalizations that reinforce gender stereotypes and
stereotypes about tweens and teens related to their technology use
and skills Highlights the importance of access to books and
provides evidence for the role of libraries as reading-supportive
spaces
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