Rev. of Fishing, by Ann Love and Jane Drake

Rev. of Seven great inventions, by Celia King

This book offers concrete strategies and activities for implementing an integrated school library program that can be put to immediate use in the library and classroom. It gives educators a better understanding of the integrated school library program and its benefits, then shows how to establish th...

Rev. of Guiding the reading process: techniques & strategies for successful instruction in K-8 classrooms, by David Booth The book would only be useful to teacher-librarians who have a strong interest in the reading process, since little reference is made to school libraries other than as "sources o...

Outlines some of the similarities in the roles of the teacher-librarian, curriculum consultant, teacher educator, and administrators in general, and then describes new partnerships that can be nurtured when teacher-librarians move into other educational roles. Discusses institutional leadership, cur...

Explores the theoretical basis for understanding nonfiction from an aesthetic point of view and discusses some of the pedagogical issues arising from this theoretical framework. (TB)

Challenges the pervasive role that fiction has played in read-aloud programs and develops a rationale for including nonfiction. Includes a 20-item annotated bibliography of nonfiction read-alouds. (SR)

Compares the story telling of three- and four-year-old children from different home-literacy environments. Finds clear differences by age, and significant differences between four-year-olds from higher and lower home-literacy environments, while differences among three-year-old groups were not stati...

Includes seven articles that discuss overcoming obstacles to getting teenage boys to read. Highlights include what teacher-librarians can do; what boys see as obstacles; material selection; collection organization; gender issues; learning differences; magazines; lunchtime book discussion groups; mot...

Examines six major preconditions for literacy that are rooted in the home environment and discusses some of the implications of this home literacy environment for schools.

Doiron reviews "Teach them ALL to read: Catching the kids who fall through the cracks" by Elaine K. McEwan.

An excerpt from A Message from the National Standard Writing Committee of a report Achieving Information Literacy: Satandards for School Library Programs in Canada (2003) is presented.

Doiron believes there are books targeted especially for stereotypical views of boys and girls, but he doesn't believe the differences break down completely along the fiction/information book divide. He discusses a research project where he examined the content of elementary classroom libraries ...

"Books Steps: Leveled Trade Books for Reading, Independent Reading and Authentic Assessment" by Alix Miller is reviewed.

"Literary pathways: Selecting books to support new readers" by Barbara Peterson is reviewed.