OverDrive Education talks with Beth Zirogiannis, Ed.D, Director of English, Reading and Library for the Oceanside School District (NY).
Continue ReadingWhat we need to instill in our male students is that reading is an important hobby that must become a habit. Why? If they want to succeed in anything, they must read.
Continue ReadingI would often observe everyone trying to navigate the nonfiction section or avoid it completely. We had lessons on the Dewey Decimal System and our nonfiction shelves were labeled, but students and staff were still not engaging.
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As we approach 2020, I expected ebooks to be a much bigger part of book publishing revenue.
Continue ReadingFor the past two-and-half years, I have noticed a reading trend with my young adult students. My teen readers can’t get enough of what I call tough topic books. I categorize these as tough topic reads because they are books about overcoming adversity and exploring topics that are controversial.
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OverDrive Education talks with Bill Bass, Innovation Coordinator for Technology Integration, Information and Library Media for the Parkway School District outside St. Louis, Missouri, and President of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Board of Directors.
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OverDrive’s Steve Potash speaks with R.L. Stine, the author of hundreds of children’s horror fiction novels, including the Goosebumps series. Stine discusses growing up as a “weird kid,” the joys of writing for a young audience, how a librarian changed his life, new projects and much more.
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In an effort to promote more informed conversations between publishers and their authors/agents, here are two questions I recommend every author and agent ask their publisher…
Continue ReadingThe truth was that I was not teaching at all, and my students were only repeating what they were told. There was no real learning going on, and I felt like a fraud.
Continue ReadingJames Holzhauer employed several strategies for his incredible run on Jeopardy!, including using children’s books that he checked out from his local public library for research.
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