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- Title
Creating a Dynamic Classroom Library: A Visual-Media, Learning Commons Approach.
- Authors
Heron-Hruby, Alison; Trent, Brandie; Stiles, Lindsey
- Abstract
In this article, we discuss strategies we have used to maintain student interest in Brandie Trent's classroom library amidst student preference for movies and other visual texts. Classroom libraries are especially important because of the strong correlation between copious classroom books and above-average reading achievement (Krashen, Lee, and McQuillan). School libraries, in general, are undergoing changes to accommodate the practices of twenty-first century readers, shifting from large storage rooms that house materials for research and pleasure reading to spaces in which students "experiment, create, and explore" (Grigsby 103). By incorporating the role of students' multimedia use in their reading lives in Brandie's classroom, we aimed to foster student creativity, experimentation, and exploration with the books in her classroom library.
- Subjects
STUDENTS; CLASSROOM libraries; READING level of students; SCHOOL libraries; MULTIMEDIA (Art)
- Publication
Kentucky English Bulletin, 2016, Vol 65, Issue 2, p26
- ISSN
0023-0197
- Publication type
Article