Reading is our business how libraries can foster reading comprehension

• Main Author: Grimes, Sharon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago American Library Association 2006; Chicago ©2006
• Subjects: School libraries > Activity programs > United States; Reading comprehension > Study and teaching (Elementary) > United States
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• Physical Description: xii, 155 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references : (pages 145-149) and index
• ISBN: 0838909124

Reading Is Our Business attempts to cultivate literacy and to encourage library media specialists to resume/assume (depending on who you are talking to) their rightful position as critical partners in the development of reading comprehension.-Sharon Grimes in the Preface. Motivating children to read is essential to building a lifelong love of reading. Many parents cannot model engagement with books and instead, teachers, school media specialists, and children's librarians must step into the breach to help children embrace a love of reading. According to award-winning librarian-educator and author Sharon Grimes, to help students love books and reading, their skills must go beyond merely recognizing words and turning pages without comprehension. She frames the situation with an insightful overview of current research on reading and how children learn. Reading Is Our Business then outlines a unique seven-step reading strategy. Each step is illustrated by actual classroom examples teaching students how to understand what they read and is supplemented with age-appropriate author and book lists.