I have spent part of this evening exploring the International Literacy Association's website to which I now have access to as part of my membership. I have been changing priorities in my periodical collections and am starting to spend less of my budget on recreational reading and more on professional magazines and journals for teachers. I used to have an avid readership of my magazines and newspapers but I am finding that students are less and less inclined to read them. I got rid of a few this year and I will do the same when subscriptions run out over the next few months. It saddens me but even the teachers aren't reading magazines such as National Geographic, New Scientist, the Economist and even Wired and Focus. All this is to say, that I decided to buy a membership in the ILA and have access for teachers to their journals on reading and reading research. What better place for me to look for articles on summarising and précis writing, a topic I have been boring you with over the last few posts!
I have just started to research the back issues of the journal Reading Teacher and hope to find some useful articles but there it will have to remain for tonight since I have become far too tired to carry on with reading the articles once I have found them. They do require that you are alert! I shall keep yu posted on my reading in future blogs. Good Night!
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