Topic: Reading To Make a Difference

Katie Kelly and Lester Laminack discuss the evolving landscape of education.

From Reading to Make a Difference chapter 3. Learn how to help students cope with loss through careful text selection and conversation.

"When even a small group of readers come together to engage in conversation around a shared text, each of them leaves with greater insight than any one of them brought."

Cultural norms and adult attitudes and behaviors define for children which differences matter and which do not.

In this edition of Book Talk Live, we're speaking with authors Lester Laminack and Katie Kelly about their new book, Reading to Make a Difference.

Taking the initiative to be reflective about one's inward identity can be enlightening!

Some texts affirm our lives based on similarities and connections, while others provide us a window into the unfamiliar.

Lester and Katie offer a framework that can both deepen and broaden students’ understandings, insights, and empathy for the greater human family.

Today on the podcast Lester Laminack and Katie Kelly want students and teachers to learn the ways that reading can change lives. In their new book 'Reading to Make a Difference,' Lester and Katie build a framework for diverse and inclusive literature practices.

When the reader stands in his or her own worldview, unable to see or conceive of any other perspective, a book can be a bridge. The right book, at the right time, can span the divide between where the reader stands in this moment and alternate views, new ideas, and options not yet considered.