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LITERACY

13 Picture Books for Young Students About Learning How to Read

Reading about reading can help put young learners on the path to becoming lifelong readers, and these books will inspire them.
By Kristin Rydholm
March 28, 2022

It never failed. Every year that I worked in a school library, a first- or second-grade student would browse the nonfiction section, select the oversized 1936 copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and head to the checkout desk. Classmates would immediately flock to that child—some dubious, some envious, some ecstatic.
Every time that book was heaved up to the front desk, it wound up being immediately reshelved, and the child would be directed to a more appropriate selection—perhaps an Elephant and Piggie book. This anecdote reveals volumes about what many young children believe about the reading process: The person who reads the biggest book with the smallest print wins.
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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

A New Resource for Free Digital Field Trips

Museums for Digital Learning was developed in partnership with teachers and provides curated material on a variety of subjects.
By Laura Bradley
March 25, 2022

A third-grade class on a field trip to Chicago’s Field Museum examines fossils to imagine life 300 million years ago. Their middle school friends compare body features of long-extinct dinosaurs with those of animals today to better understand relationships between them. And their high school siblings deepen their understanding of the solar system by getting up close and personal with meteorites.
While this kind of learning experience might be possible for Chicago schools near the Field Museum, these particular students didn’t board a bus for their field trip. They live in Northern California, where the nearest museum is hundreds of miles from their rural school. But thanks to Museums for Digital Learning, they simply hop online to visit museums across the country any time they want.