Month: March 2017

“Language proficiency, no matter how it is measured, is related to mathematics achievement.”  -Walter Secada, Northwestern University. You may recall from your school days that classmates of yours who were at the top of the class in math were [...]

What’s our Poet Laureate reading? We guessed poetry. And we’re right. Calgary’s Poet Laureate, Micheline Maylor, shares her favourite poetry (and other) reads as part of her Calgary Reads’ My sHelfie. “Reading for me was like a [...]

“I think a library is so powerful. It builds community. It helps people have more success through all that occurs through reading; whether that’s people searching for jobs, building their knowledge in higher education, or children reading and [...]

Literacy backpacks contain books and related activities for children and their caregivers to read and do together. They are often prepared by teachers and loaned out to families to bring literacy into the home and build home/school, parent/teacher [...]