Reading Is Our Business: How Libraries Can Foster Reading Comprehension
Grimes, an award-winning librarian, led a school-wide research study with classroom teachers to transform the reading program at Lansdowne Elementary School in Baltimore. The study resulted in dramatic and measurable gains in student reading achievement. This book can be used as a toolkit to duplicate those results. Grimes's work is informed by solid educational research in the field of reading comprehension. The text is lively and clearly written, accessible to teachers and librarians. Twenty-three pages of useful appendixes include a bibliography for each reading-comprehension skill corresponding to the matching stage of reading development, evaluation tools for library media specialist/teacher collaboration, and charts and graphic organizers for student lessons. Grimes demonstrates the transformative role of a librarian who is at the forefront of moving an entire school toward increased reading achievement. This book will interest administrators and inspire reading specialists, classroom teachers, and, above all, library media specialists.–Bobbee Pennington, Bryan Public Library, TXCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.