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The Joy of Reading and Intermediate Students

by Angela Jackmann

This paper, presented by a teacher-librarian from the Peel District School Board, Ontario, explores strategies the teacher-librarian can use to encourage the joy of reading for pleasure with intermediate students and teachers, and why is it important. The significance of fostering a love for reading among intermediate students is paramount as reading impacts academics in many ways. This paper explores strategies that teacher-librarians can utilize to encourage reading for pleasure among intermediate students and teachers and underscores the importance of such initiatives.  It also suggests where robust funding might be applied, how a policy of protected time for reading for pleasure could be employed, and how equity of access can impact student reading.

Angela Jackmann has been an educator in the Peel District School Board since 2002.  She has taught multiple grades in the classroom, visual art, computers, special education, multiple language learners and guidance.  She has been in the LLC since 2017 and has loved every minute of it.  The best part of her job is when she matches a student to a great book!  Ms. Jackmann is the mother of two and lives with her husband in a small city in southern Ontario.  She enjoys reading, travelling and coffee.

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