In this podcast he talks about the current Int Rdg Assoc President's messages on testing, research on Accelerated Reader programme, reading rewards - extrinsic and intrinsic, home-run books, subversive reading (Captain Underpants vs Newberry winners), comic books, vocabulary, reading volume, reading aloud, and above all ACCESS TO BOOKS and a quiet comfortable place to read... and that happens during school and in school - in the library...
"A good school library makes things possible, without it you go nowhere. It is the first necessary step..."
"School library research is I think the hottest area of research now in language education where we get the most payoff from the research results...."
2 examples :
- Where did you get the book you are reading ? Most often from a school library.
- The better the school library, the higher the school's reading scores.
Stephen Krashen is an ardent proponent of FVR - Free Voluntary Reading and what needs to be in place for this to happen : access to books and other print resources (magazines, comics etc) through school libraries, making reading time and having reading role models.... He is the author of The power of reading : insights from the research which is a resource I strongly recommend.
Here is his website http://www.sdkrashen.com/
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