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From Now On The Educational Technology Journal Vol 14|No 6|Summer|2005 This summer's issue can be found for free on line at http://fno.org The summer article first appeared in the February 2005 issue of Library Media Connection. You will find a brief excerpt below . . . ----- Power Reading and the School Library ----- Should the media specialist be the most capable teacher of comprehension in the school? I. The Comprehension----Literacy Link While we have always known that a thriving library program is central to the success of a school’s reading and learning programs, “The times, they are a-changing,” as Dylan would put it. What once was central is now urgent. NCLB has created a cocktail of pressures, risks and opportunities that impact dramatically on the roles of media specialists. The LMS is now a critical factor in a school’s survival, especially as the staff works to strengthen reading comprehension across all classrooms and disciplines. If the teacher-librarian becomes the most capable teacher of comprehension skills in the school, the prospects for a strong school and a thriving library program are enhanced dramatically, especially when the teacher-librarian has the ability to transfer skill and effective practice to all colleagues. The teacher-librarian promotes, models and empowers the success of all in making comprehension a school priority. We are now capitalizing upon a natural match between the information literacy goals of Information Power and the comprehension needs of the school. The notion that reading comprehension is tied to information literacies is relatively novel, since the two have been treated as nearly separate domains in the past, but we can no longer afford such an artificial separation. Literacy is about wrestling understanding from chunks of information, whether those chunks be numerical, textual, visual, cultural or artistic. Comprehension, on the other hand, has traditionally been more narrowly defined as the understanding of paragraphs and passages; but a marriage of the two seems well timed as the NCLB testing juggernaut thunders across the nation. Continued at http://fno.org . . . Jamie McKenzie Editor, From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal http://fno.org Editor, The Question Mark http://questioning.org mckenzie@fno.org 360-647-8759 500 15th Street Bellingham, WA 98225 -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------