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How Do Librarians in Schools Support Struggling Readers?
Merga, Margaret Kristin
English in Education, v53 n2 p145-160 2019
While librarians in schools often face significant budgetary cuts, they can play an important role in supporting learning in literacy and literature. However, little is known about the practices that they may employ to this end. Of particular interest is the role of librarians in schools in supporting struggling readers, as these students may be increasingly disadvantaged as they move through the years of schooling. Semi-structured interview data were collected from teacher librarians at 30 schools and analysed to identify practices exercised by teacher librarians that aligned with extant research around supporting struggling readers. Teacher librarians provided support by identifying struggling readers, providing them with age and skill-appropriate materials, undertaking skill scaffolding supporting choice, supporting students with special needs, providing one-to-one matching, promoting access to books, enhancing the social position of books and reading, reading aloud to students, facilitating silent reading, and preparing students for high-stakes literacy testing.
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Services, Librarians, Library Role, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Materials, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Identification, Special Needs Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Silent Reading, Test Preparation, High Stakes Tests, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries
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