[CALIBK12] need article or research help

[Jamie Boston]

You can use Krashen's article on Free Voluntary 
Reading 
http://www.sdkrashen.com/articles/pac5/index.html to bolster your stance.


At 10:22 AM 4/15/2009, Patricia Ohanian wrote:
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>Colleagues,
>I need a professional article or research that I 
>can share with my highly educated parents 
>regarding pushing children to read "harder" 
>books.  Some of the parents in my elementary 
>school library community feel that their 
>children should only read books that "challenge" 
>them.  I am sure that someone has done research 
>or written a professional article on the 
>importance of reading just for the fun of it and 
>sometime (gasp) even reading an easy 
>book.  Understand that my school is within a 
>mile from Stanford University and some parents 
>in this highly educated community feel they are 
>helping their children.  If I could show them 
>research or a professional article to the 
>contrary, they might respect that. (Just the 
>Teacher Librarian with 20 experience in 
>education, 2 credentials and a Master's Degree 
>is not enough)  I don't want to sound as if I am 
>complaining because this is truly a very small 
>minority of parents here and these parents are 
>all wonderful and just want what is best for 
>their kids.  I would just like to help them to lighten up.
>So if you know of something that may help, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
>Patricia Ohanian
>Addison Elementary School
>Palo Alto
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Jamie Murphy Boston, Teacher Librarian
CSLA 2.0 Team
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