Follow the Early Literacy Research and See Where it Goes

As co-chair of the Early and Family Research Committee, I’ve spent a lot of the last year thinking about research. Our members find scholarly research relating to early literacy and synthesize it to share to ALSC members as part of the Early and Family Literacy Research Database. However, earlier this year, I was reminded that research doesn’t just have to be finding peer-reviewed studies, diving into data, and pouring over bibliographies. Research can be diving into best practices for a new program, or uncovering a new side of something you think about every day. It can be blog posts (like this one), documentaries, websites, and more. For all this committee loves our academic, peer-reviewed research, we also love supporting fact finding and strengthening of early literacy practices in all ways. Often falling down a research rabbit hole might start somewhere you don’t ever expect to see it.  For me, It…
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