Research+on+Classrom+Libraries

International Reading Association
The IRA calls for increased funding to all school libraries. The association advocates that teachers, librarians, and school administrators request the appropriate numbers of books for classrooms and school libraries.

Ray Ruetzl (Past Director of the IRA)
Ray has written a book entitled, " Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power. Some of the topics he covers are: the growing importance of the classroom library, the classroom library in a balanced reading program, helping children make successful book selections, and how the classroom library supports reading with children.

Reading Research Quartely 1999
Research about the importance of learning to read suggests that students who have access to materials of interest such as classrooms libraries, are more likely to read and thus to improve their reading achievement and attitudes.

National Union of Teachers
Research consistently shows that one of the most effective strategies for fostering a love of reading in schools is the creation of a classrom library, as it serves as a constant reminder for the children to pick up a book and start reading. Classroom libraries with books from a variety of genres and covering a range of potential areas of interest increase pupil's literacy-related aactivities and pormote phonemic awareness, vocabualry, comprehension and writing. By providing access to a rich classroom library, teachers promote greater amounts of reading, increased reading frequency and more diverse reading experiences among their students, thus helping them to attain greater levels of reading achievement.

Block, Cleveland & Reed 2005
Classroom libraries promote increased reading frequency, and more diverse reading experiences among students, thus helping them to attain greater levels of reading achievement.