5 ways to make your teens & tweens read
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Five Simple Steps to Get Teens & Tweens Excited About Reading!
Anita Beaman
Director, Post Baccalaureate
Program in School
Librarianship, Illinois State University
What is it about teens & reading?
“Teens buying books at fastest rate in decades”
“Ebook Sales Rise in Children’s and Young Adult Categories”
“Publishing: Books for teens are a bright spot.”
So, if we but follow these five simple steps….
1. Know the literature
Traditional Review Sources.. With a twist
Book Blogs
2. Make the connection for them
3. Create a culture of reading
Think about schools where reading is a part of the culture.
How do they do that?
4. Build it and they will come
Collection Stats from the Illinois Study
Average age of collection: • Elem: 1990• Middle: 1989• HS: 1983
Fall, 2003:http://www.islma.org/IllinoisStudy.htm
www.wix.com
5. Go where they are
Reading 2.0
Questions?
