[CALIBK12] Reading Study - "To Read or Not to Read"

Mon Nov 19 16:26:26 PST 2007

This report is certainly interesting reading and although they don't
suggest solutions, one way to have students read more is to have well
funded school libraries with the needed staff!

Susan Martimo from the Dept. of Ed. did a great session at the CSLA
Conference about the upcoming Language Arts adoption. Her PowerPoint
presentation shows how the Reading/Language Arts framework
specifically says how important the school library is as well as how
many pages students should read each year.  Overall, Susan's
presentation and this report are important information to share with
anyone interested in thinking about how school libraries promote
reading - duh!

Rob - (http://robdarrow.wordpress.com)
Rob Darrow, Coordinator of School Libraries
Clovis Unified School District
Clovis, CA
robdarrow74 at gmail.com

> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:54:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Lesley Farmer <lfarmer at csulb.edu>
> Subject: [CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Reading study
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> Americans appear to be reading less for fun, and as thathappens, their
> reading test scores are declining. Atthe same time, performance in
> other academicdisciplines like math and science is dipping forstudents
> whose access to books is limited, andemployers are rating workers
> deficient in basicwriting skills. These findings are based onan
> analysis of data from about two dozen studies fromthe federal Education
> and Labor Departments and theCensus Bureau as well as other academic,
> foundationand business surveys. National Endowment for the Arts.
> (2007). To read or not to read. Washington, DC:
> NEA.http://www.nea.gov/research/ResearchReports_chrono.html
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> Posted By Lesley Farmer to CSLA Research Update at 11/19/2007 08:51:00
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> From: "Magana. Darla" <Darla.Magana at smes.org>
> Subject: [CALIBK12] Edited version of Glory
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> Hi collegues,
>
> I'm looking for the "school" version of the film Glory, specifically the
> "pepsi version".    Does anyone know how to order a pepsi version (these
> were given FREE to schools in the 90's)?  I fear that they can not be
> purchased any longer.  IF they can not be purchased any longer, is it
> possible within any educational loophole to make a copy of the tape from
> a neighbor school and keep it for my school?  (probably not, but I'm
> desperately searching!)
>
>
>
> Darla Magana
>
> St. Margaret's Episcopal School
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> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:57:54 EST
> From: RichardGuy at aol.com
> Subject: [CALIBK12] Dropouts
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> This is a delightful article by an octogenarian:
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> <
> http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/sep/25/commentary-dropout-rates-have-history-we-need-look/>
>      "Despite the facts, the persistence of the dropout concern is but one
> part of a more general attack on public education, most of the other parts of
> which have no more substance than that over the dropout rate."
>
> Richard K. Moore, InfoSherpa
> Huntington Beach, CA
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> From: "Spielman, Kathy" <kspielman at pylusd.org>
> Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Reading study
> To: "Lesley Farmer" <lfarmer at csulb.edu>, <calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu>
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> Reading for pleasure is the answer. Lots of reading.
> This is interesting to me. for the past 3-4 years, our circulation at our middle school has risen sharply. We decided to concentrate on ordering popular fiction. We began to ask the students when checking out books, what elementary school they were coming from, how many books they read a month, and reasons for why they read the books they read.
> It was a real eye opener. At the beginning of the year, many of the 6th graders rarely checked out books. We started the survey and found that students who attended schools using AR, stopped checking out books once they came to our school that does not do AR. They said they didn't like to read. The students who had attended elementary schools without AR were avid readers.
> We scheduled classes to come in for book talks and discussions on reading for pleasure. These same students got huge smiles on their faces and asked if they could really, really pick any book they wanted. They were delighted to find out that they not only had free choice, they had no limits set on how many or what types of books. I even have parents of 5th graders from feeder schools coming in and checking out books for their kids that their teachers won't let them read because they are not their AR level.
> Our circulation has risen from about 80 books a day to over 300 books a day. We have 850 students. We are currently tracking pages read for fun on our crane from School Libraries Build Readers theme. We are just shy of 1 million pages. Yes, staff reading pages are included.
>
> Now, instead our new problem is getting enough new books.  Yes, that is a good problem to have.
> Kathy
> Kathy Spielman
> Middle School Library/Media Technician
> Yorba Linda Middle School
> 4777 Casa Loma Ave.
> Yorba Linda, CA 92886
> (714)528-7090 ext.7062
> kspielman at pylusd.org
> Read to succeed!
> I am the best I can be BECAUSE I CAN READ
>
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> From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu]On Behalf Of Lesley Farmer
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 8:55 AM
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> Subject: [CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Reading study
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>
> Americans appear to be reading less for fun, and as that
> happens, their reading test scores are declining. At
> the same time, performance in other academic
> disciplines like math and science is dipping for
> students whose access to books is limited, and
> employers are rating workers deficient in basic
> writing skills. These findings are based on
> an analysis of data from about two dozen studies from
> the federal Education and Labor Departments and the
> Census Bureau as well as other academic, foundation
> and business surveys.
> National Endowment for the Arts. (2007). To read or not to read. Washington, DC: NEA.
> http://www.nea.gov/research/ResearchReports_chrono.html
>
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> Posted By Lesley Farmer to CSLA  <http://cslaresearchupdate.blogspot.com/2007/11/reading-study.html> Research Update at 11/19/2007 08:51:00 AM
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> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:32:25 -0800
> From: "Pilling, George" <GPilling at visalia.k12.ca.us>
> Subject: [CALIBK12] Children's art auction for a good cause
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> Hello everyone
> It sure was fun to see you all at the fabulous CSLA conference. I
> learned more than I did at AASL, and everything else was more pleasant,
> too. Great job! We should give lessons on having conferences.
>
> This site leads to an auction of snowflakes to bid on to help cure
> cancer:
> http://www.jimmyfund.org/eve/event/roberts-snow/view-snowflakes-online.h
> tml  All are by children's artists.
>
> George Pilling
> District Library Media Supervisor
> Visalia Unified School District
> 5000 W. Cypress Avenue
> Visalia  CA  93277
>
> (559) 730-7349
> FAX (559) 730-7693
> gpilling at visalia.k12.ca.us
> http://visalia.k12.ca.us/library
> www.tucolib.net <http://www.tucolib.net/>
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> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:48:27 -0800
> From: "Pilling, George" <GPilling at visalia.k12.ca.us>
> Subject: [CALIBK12] One more post
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> This from American Libraries Direct. For me, this is a good reason to
> Bowdlerize a book (i.e. block out the offending number)
>
>
>  Beware the Magic Attic
> <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?id=t297136&si=y98434566&pc=m2007&ei=v149754>
> Libraries in Florida and other states are taking steps to remove a phone
> number in the back of the books in the Magic Attic Club, a series of
> some 38 fantasy and adventure titles published in the late 1990s for
> girls aged 9 to 12. A Tampa, Florida, mother was apparently the first to
> discover that an 800 number on the back page no longer belonged to the
> Magic Attic Book Club, but went to a telephone sex line instead....
>
> George Pilling
> District Library Media Supervisor
> Visalia Unified School District
> 5000 W. Cypress Avenue
> Visalia  CA  93277
>
> (559) 730-7349
> FAX (559) 730-7693
> gpilling at visalia.k12.ca.us
> http://visalia.k12.ca.us/library
> www.tucolib.net <http://www.tucolib.net/>
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