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| By Gale Staff | Gale In Context: For Educators Now Includes Customizable Assessments Gale In Context: For Educators provides teachers with the resources necessary to personalize instruction and help students succeed. With the recent addition of assessments for every lesson plan within Gale In Context: For Educators, we’ve made it easier for teachers to … Read more
| By Elizabeth Mohn | Middle school students are curious, eager learners who are constantly looking for connections between lessons and their own lives. Asking questions to engage students’ natural curiosity is one way for teachers to help them make meaningful connections and spark a desire to find answers for themselves. Gale In Context: Middle … Read more
| By Gale Staff | In April 2023, we will be launching a new platform that can be used to access British Literary Manuscripts. The platform will be available in addition to the current platform for several more months, until there’s a hard cutover this June, after which only the new platform will be available. … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Sunday, April 23, is World Book Day! While technically landing on the weekend, there’s no reason you can’t use the worldwide momentum to kick off a whole week of activities worthy of the young readers in your community. While every day is World Book Day in our hearts, the United … Read more
| By Gale Staff | National Library Week is April 23-29, and what better time to honor the many contributions of public librarians? At Gale, we strive to create products that help elevate their hard work, but librarians are the ones who create the magic and instill a lifelong love of books in all of … Read more
| By Gale Staff | When we plan for special days in April, most of us think of Easter, Earth Day, or maybe even April Fool’s Day. But April is also Second Chance Month, a time when all of us are encouraged to consider ways we can better support formerly incarcerated people. According to last … Read more
| By Rey Yuan, Gale Ambassador at Rice University | What comes to your mind when you hear “The Cold War”? The nuclear missile crisis, the “Red Scare,” or perhaps the Iron Curtain speech? As a history major, I have long been intrigued by the incredible complexities of Cold War historiography. In particular, I have … Read more
| By Chilton Staff | According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 22 percent of households have at least one member who speaks a language other than English at home1. With the ChiltonLibrary on-page ReadSpeaker accessibility tool, users can easily translate service manual text into more than 20 languages. In addition, the text-to-speech feature reads the … Read more
| By Gale Staff | People don’t often glorify public librarians. They can be quiet, helpful, and reliable, spotting you for the extra quarter you need for your printing fees or helping you prepare your summer vacation reading list. They organize story hours to entertain your kids. They curate a collection of books and media … Read more
| By Gale Staff | The month of April marks both Earth Day (April 22) and Arbor Day (April 28). These two holidays create excellent bookends for a week dedicated to lessons and activities about our natural environment. Arbor Day, specifically, is a chance for young learners to participate in tree planting, a nature walk, … Read more