The Science of Reading and The Joy of Reading are Partners
As a school librarian, I have quite a few beliefs about what students should do when they visit my space: Children should learn how to seek out, browse, and swim through stacks and shelves and bins and carts and displays full of diverse books. They should pick at, tip forward, pull out, flip through, consider, and replace or check out books. Every student in every grade should walk up and down every aisle of shelving in their school library, noticing and exploring, touching books no matter how tall or short they are. They should ask me for help with the pronunciation of a word, an explanation of an award or seal, the location of a topic, and a reminder of the author's name of the story I shared. They should know that they can ask me how to use a shelf marker, how to navigate a table of contents, and the order of a title in a series. They will come to know that they can tell me that their family doesn't want them reading certain books and that I can help them explore our resour
