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• Difference is huge in students who have had a background that encourages reading, their academic skills are improved. Can see the difference quite clearly.
• Have small leisure collection to encourage reading.
• If all you read is boring textbooks, you aren't going to enjoy reading
• Interested in, from perspective of parent
• Incorporating different technologies
• Lots of distractions, hard to get them to focus
• Encourage their creativity, adaptation of books into movies example
• Challenging to force selves to read
• Read studies that people read differently between electronic and print, scanning versus line by line
• Print ebooks
• Students from particular schools are valued due to their background in research and reading, need to take this back to the high school level
• Students are not being read to at home
• At one school, students are mostly checking out graphic novels
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid is the most popular, repeated check outs
• Are graphic novels the way to go?
• How do you get them to read? Not necessarily reading full sentences
• Teachers are encouraging, however, the books are not necessarily promoting this
• One has to be a chapter book, one non-fiction/one fiction, negotiate variety of types of books, two English/one Arabic
• Can force them check out books, but not force them to read
• Culture today everywhere, challenge everywhere
• Where we are getting information from has changed, most people use mobile tech
• Does it matter if they are only reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
• Sentences are too short to have variety and understand meaning of different words
• How do we transition from short sentences and graphic novels to more complex texts? Aren't getting the full benefit of reading
• Secondary participation dwindles
• Do not have a concept of what a library does, very difficult behavioural issues, getting them to settle down in Library
• Thoughtful responses to survey are important, how did they find these books
• Difficult to find books
• Coupons for reading books, in US had program to encourage reading http://www.bookitprogram.com/
• Different use of libraries in cultures, would make a big difference to other countries to have public libraries, to encourage kids to read all the time
• Not all SEC libraries are similar and there are gaps between each
• Part of curriculum it is more likely to happen, if it is optional it will not get done
• Teacher has program to bring two books per week home, track, progress in reading
• Reading part of daily routine, rather than additional or burden activity, needs to be part of process of learning
• Librarian and teachers need to collaborate
• Open house with parents to address the concerns and understand the value of reading and what libraries are doing, what each year level should be doing
• Basic things, like how to take care of books
• Make it relatable
• Need to push agenda for information literacy at all levels
• Book discussion success at QNL
• Discussion of having teen book club at QNL
• Some challenges with having enough copies of the book for clubs
• Interlibrary loan system, possibilities for building collections overall
• Why are people so interested in Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
• Easy to read
• When kids come across a difficult word they get deflated
• Need to guide them through the process of reading
• Daughter read book that made her hate reading, need to teach that you don't have to read a particular book that they don't like
• Allow them to recommend books to other students
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