Research Visual Competency

For the research visual competency, I selected a figure from the article PiggyBacking, which discusses implementing a book club for children in a classroom setting and focuses on including students with learning disabilities in the book clubs. The authors determined that the following model for a book club best met the needs of students with learning disabilities.



Rationale: This figure directly correlates to my topic of interest: implementing book clubs for children in schools. As a future elementary school librarian, this information will be helpful in starting my own book clubs and will also be useful information to pass on to classroom teachers so they might begin book clubs of their own. Because this method has been shown to work with students with learning disabilities, it provides a way for book clubs to be accessible to all studens, no matter what their ability level may be.

Citation: Paxton-Buursma, D. and Walker, M. (2008). Piggybacking. Teaching Exceptional Children, 40(3), 28 - 34.

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