Encourage kids to write about their feelings and experiences. You’ll grow lifelong readers and learners if you do.
Archive | Self-awareness
Focus Comes from Emotion
To lead children into reading proficiency, we must first activate the emotional needs that the artful language and the compelling illustrations touch in them.
Knowing How to Find Answers to Questions Provides Unlimited Knowledge of the World
Children who are not taught to access the joys and power of libraries and their books, the internet and other information sources are at a disadvantage when it comes to learning about life and the world.
Expression Over Accuracy
Let’s never forget that the most important purpose of developing literacy is it’s promise in supporting personal understanding and lifelong learning.
Books Celebrating their Readers
The representations in books of things familiar to the new reader paves the way for them to develop lifelong affection for books and reading.
Sharing Books Builds Community and Literacy
Deep sources of ideas and information, like books, fortify family and community cultures.
The Flow of Books and Reading
THE central goal of a good education is joyful, daily reading and learning…for life.
The ScienceS of Reading
Science gives us microscopic and macro views of the world. Consider how both can inform the science of literacy education.
A Powerful Gift to Give
Book giving should be a much more elaborate interaction between giver and the receiver than just delivering a thoughtfully selected, prettily wrapped present.
Give and Take
The open handed sharing of valuable personal resources forms the basis for solid and fulfilling relationships.