. . EDUCATION: K-12: READING : LIBRARIES: PUBLIC LIBRARIES, SCHOOL LIBRARIES : LITERACY: Libraries and Literacy: Public, School Libraries Hook New Readers for Life . . Libraries and Literacy: Public, School Libraries Hook New Readers for Life Published: Tuesday, September 06, 2011, 4:00 AM Jim Scheppkehttp://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/ 2011/09/libraries_and_literacy_public.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/3d8xb5b . .After decades of researching how children learn to read, Krashen has come to a very simple conclusion: "When children have access to interesting and comprehensible reading material, they read. Reading for pleasure, self-selected reading, is the major cause of literacy development."
."Without it," Krashen said, "literacy development is impossible." If Krashen is right, then public and school libraries are a big part of the solution when they provide at-risk children with access to books and with the motivation to read for pleasure.
.Public libraries in Oregon are already doing their part. They have plenty of books and story-time programs for parents and children of all ages, even babies. They have summer reading programs that are designed to motivate students to keep reading when school is out.
.The Oregon State Library supports this with our Ready to Read Grant program, which funds these programs in every public library. School libraries are another story.
.School libraries with adequate book budgets that are staffed by teacher-librarians are no longer the norm in Oregon. In 1980 we had 818 teacher-librarians working in 1,284 schools. Today we have fewer than 300 teacher-librarians working in about the same number of schools.
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