To lead children into reading proficiency, we must first activate the emotional needs that the artful language and the compelling illustrations touch in them.
Archive | Media Literacy
Ask Questions that Inspire Connection and Reflection
Conversation about shared experiences can develop children’s closeness with others and deepen everyone’s natural reflections about themselves and their lives.
Great question!
Kids learn to ask questions from the kinds of questions we ask of them.
The End of Education?
Living is learning. If we aren’t learning, we are just existing.
Represent and Validate Young Readers. Books Can Do Both…or Neither.
For children to become fully literate, we must provide them with books in which they see themselves.
“Dear Santa” Letters Help Develop Literacy and More
If the only letter we encourage our children to write is that yearly one to Santa, we’re doing literacy wrong.
Yup…uh, No Way!
There are dozens of ways to say “yes” or “no,” but they aren’t just different looking, actually they are all subtly different in meaning.
Signs Mean More Than They Say
“Sign language” can be a tool to help children learn to read.
Here Comes Autumn!
This week we’d like to encourage what may be new for many families…Poetry!
All reading is a GOOD thing…right?
The material we read is best if it’s fact checked by reliable sources. Children should be encouraged to question what they read for accuracy and truth.