Standard 2: Literacy and Reading
"Candidates promote reading for learning, personal growth, and enjoyment. Candidates are aware of major trends in children's and young adult literature and select reading materials in multiple formats to support reading for information, reading for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning. Candidates use a variety of strategies to reinforce classroom reading instruction to address the diverse needs and interests of all readers" (ALA/AASL, 2010 p. 4).
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Standard 2 Elements
2.1 Literature 2.2 Reading Promotion 2.3 Respect for Diversity 2.4 Literacy Strategies |
Reflection and Artifacts
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” (Lamott, 1994 p. 15).
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, 1994.
Reading, and especially my love and excitement for it, is one of the main reasons that I chose to become a librarian. My love of reading, in concert with my keen love of helping people learn and grow, will facilitate the effective promotion of reading within my Media Center environment. Georgia Southern’s curriculum, working hand in hand with my Valdosta State MLIS coursework and my personal library experience, have effectively prepared me to promote an excitement and love for reading within my future students. Reading is so very important because it allows a change in worldview—someone from tiny small-town Georgia can read about anywhere in the world. This change in worldview also brings a heightened sense of empathy in readers.
Several Georgia Southern classes prepared me to promote reading and literacy within the school library Media Center environment. I am particularly proud of the work that I submitted in Children’s and YA Literature—FRMS 7331 and Selection and Developing Digital Tools and Resources—FRIT 7233. I was challenged to expand my mind and learn much more about children’s literature and how to promote a love of reading within the Media Center environment.
In FRMS 7331—Children’s Literature, I completed a plethora of activities which helped me to increase my love of children’s and Young Adult literature. As one of my class assignments, I completed an author study over Walter Dean Myers. As someone who has always been interested in social justice topics, and specifically interested in juvenile delinquency, Myers’s works were wonderful and thought provoking. I also completed a multiple text assignment on teaching Fallen Angels, also by Myers. This multiple text assignment involved using poetry, songs, and art in order to teach about the Vietnam War. I relished the opportunity to plan a lesson that covers a pivotal time in history, using unique means to inform students about this serious period of history.
During my first semester at Georgia Southern, I attended FRIT 7233, Selecting and Developing Digital Tools and Resources. In this class, I created a book trailer for one of my favorite books, Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. Given that I had been out of school in every capacity for over three years, it was a stretch in order to create this book trailer. Book trailers would be such a valuable way to promote literature and excitement. I cannot wait to be able to create book trailers for my students.
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, 1994.
Reading, and especially my love and excitement for it, is one of the main reasons that I chose to become a librarian. My love of reading, in concert with my keen love of helping people learn and grow, will facilitate the effective promotion of reading within my Media Center environment. Georgia Southern’s curriculum, working hand in hand with my Valdosta State MLIS coursework and my personal library experience, have effectively prepared me to promote an excitement and love for reading within my future students. Reading is so very important because it allows a change in worldview—someone from tiny small-town Georgia can read about anywhere in the world. This change in worldview also brings a heightened sense of empathy in readers.
Several Georgia Southern classes prepared me to promote reading and literacy within the school library Media Center environment. I am particularly proud of the work that I submitted in Children’s and YA Literature—FRMS 7331 and Selection and Developing Digital Tools and Resources—FRIT 7233. I was challenged to expand my mind and learn much more about children’s literature and how to promote a love of reading within the Media Center environment.
In FRMS 7331—Children’s Literature, I completed a plethora of activities which helped me to increase my love of children’s and Young Adult literature. As one of my class assignments, I completed an author study over Walter Dean Myers. As someone who has always been interested in social justice topics, and specifically interested in juvenile delinquency, Myers’s works were wonderful and thought provoking. I also completed a multiple text assignment on teaching Fallen Angels, also by Myers. This multiple text assignment involved using poetry, songs, and art in order to teach about the Vietnam War. I relished the opportunity to plan a lesson that covers a pivotal time in history, using unique means to inform students about this serious period of history.
During my first semester at Georgia Southern, I attended FRIT 7233, Selecting and Developing Digital Tools and Resources. In this class, I created a book trailer for one of my favorite books, Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. Given that I had been out of school in every capacity for over three years, it was a stretch in order to create this book trailer. Book trailers would be such a valuable way to promote literature and excitement. I cannot wait to be able to create book trailers for my students.