Professional Reading

Don't leave your research reading behind just because you've finished the MEd (TL). Keeping up to date with current research may not make you the life of the party, but it will improve your advocacy and your practice.

If you know of recent research into the benefits of employing qualified library staff, or other relevant research to the role of the teacher librarian - particularly in Australian schools - please share by emailing the link/s to tlccin2018@gmail.com

resource-evaluation-tool.pdf

Checklists for selecting quality texts

Updated 28 May 2021

english-es1-s1-s2-s3-checklists-for-selecting-quality-texts - Copy.docx

https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/trtr.2294

Widening Teachers' Reading Repertoires: Moving beyond a Popular Childhood Canon (see link left)

Find here Dr Merga's recent (2019-2021) peer-reviewed articles on school libraries and/or student literacy

relevant 2019-2021 papers.pdf

Thank you, Dr Marga, for sharing your research finding free to the TL and wider learning community.

Listen to Dr Merga's session at the 2021 PLCC conference HERE.

Margaret Merga: 2020

School Librarians as Literacy Educators Within a Complex Role

Margaret Merga: 2019

Ten ways teacher librarians improve literacy in schools

Margaret Merga: 2019

‘We Talk Books’: Teacher Librarians Promoting Book Discussion to Foster Reading Engagement

Margaret Merga: 2018

How do librarians in schools support struggling readers?

A place to get away from it all: 5 ways school libraries support student well-beingWe know teacher librarians support children’s literacy. But school libraries play a more diverse role, including supporting students’ well-being.

KBANZSL-August2022-CC-Final.pdf

The_Reading_Framework_July_2023.pdf

Mental wellbeing, reading and writing: how children and young people’s mental wellbeing is related to their reading and writing experiences [2018]

Strengthening reading aloud practice to build a school’s reading culture

2021 School Library Survey - Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific reports and whitepapers

Search refereed articled for free; this link is from the search term, 'teacher librarians' (of course!)

Literacy Teaching Toolkit

Shared Reading

2021 article

Ten tips for creating an unforgettable school library

Published on: 26 April 2021

2019 SA libraries survey

A comprehensive list of Krashen's research, including free papers

Information Literacy, Young Learners and the Role of the Teacher Librarian

Josephine Laretive, 2019

A link to an extensive collection of articles on advocacy support

How Reading Volume Affects both Reading Fluency and Reading Achievement

Richard L. ALLINGTON University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, US, 2014

School Librarians’ Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Predictor of Reading Scores?

School Libraries are the Only Thing that MattersA revolutionary new study shows that when it comes to a student’s reading, there is no question that school libraries — and their…

Shared Reading

Mandy Lupton: Inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum v6: A bird’s-eye view. Access, 28(4), pp. 8-29.

This file was downloaded from: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/78451/

School Libraries Worldwide journal

School Libraries Worldwide is the official professional peer-reviewed (refereed) research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship. Beginning 2021, SLW will be published on a rolling basis, online-only.

Learning modes

The learning modes for future-focused learning highlight different ways in which learning occurs. Each mode requires students and teachers to be interacting differently with space and each other.

When we are aware of, and can identify how we want learning to occur, it guides the decision making on the design of learning space and technology requirements that will best support the desired learning.

Space, furniture and technology can all help to enable learning modes that coexist or can be quickly and easily transitioned.

Learning mode posters

LM_Logo_-_Book (1).pdf

Keith Curry Lance and Debra E. Kachel: 2018

Anne Teravainen and Christina Clark: June 2017

Suggestions for effective library advocacy

Making the case for libraries

Libraries matter

What Makes Storytelling So Effective For Learning?

by Vanessa Boris | December 20, 2017

Hibbing_Rankin-Erickson_Visual Images.pdf

The Reading Teacher, Vol 56. No 8 May 2003

Choosing Not to Read: Understanding Why Some Middle Schoolers Just Say No

Kylene Beers

The Reason Boys Don’t Choose to Read ‘Girls” Books

July 12, 2018

School Librarians as Technology Leaders: An Evolution in Practice

Lois D. W

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science Online. 57. 207-220. 10.12783/issn.2328-2967/57/2/12

Shannon Hale

I have published 30 books over the past 15 years, and I have heard all this and much more in every one of the 40-plus states I have toured.

It is clear our culture assumes that boys are not going to like a book that stars a girl and men’s stories are universal, while women’s stories are only for girls.

Ideal libraries: A guide for schools

How to Provide Less Structure for Independent Reading: May 2021

This post explains in simple and sympathetic language why decodable books have an important role to play in learning to read.

Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Difficulties: The Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook

Article - understanding children's book classifications [US]

Five From Five is a community education initiative of MultiLit Pty Ltd that aims to improve literacy levels by ensuring all children receive effective, evidence based reading instruction.

Has recommended professional reading recommendations.

Resources are available to purchase.