Bookstores: Sharing a Sense of Community and a Love for Booksme • biz, tech, & social media
…“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” – Hope I didn’t just date myself by quoting the song from the beloved Cheers TV sitcom that aired during the 1980’s! For those of you who don’t know Sam Malone, Woody, Frasier, or Diane, it was a funny show about friends who would meet
PBS KIDS: Tuesday #gno Twitter Party on Summer Learning…Fearing the “I’m bored” phrase during the summer months? With summer break right around the corner, you might be brainstorming and planning ways to keep the kids entertained until they go back to school in the fall. Instead of using TV and movies as “babysitters” for your kids, turn to
PBS KIDS Giveaway: Win a PBS KIDS Prize Pack (5 Winners)Did you know that children who don’t maintain reading skills over the summer are likely to start the upcoming school year at a disadvantage? Well PBS KIDS is here to help! The iVillage + PBS KIDS Summer Reading Community Challenge… is designed to keep kids reading (and being read to)
Children’s Books: Innovative Companies That Encourage Literacyme • biz, tech, & social media
…As a children’s picture book author, one of my favorite moments while reading my story to groups of children, is to see their faces light up during an exciting part of the story. I think all parents experience that feeling when they see their children enjoy a good story. Recent
Apps for Kids: Helping Children Embrace Reading in the Digital Ageme • biz, tech, & social media
I can still remember the first book I read. It was a story by Hans Christian Andersen… and I felt such delight and excitement that I was able to read it all by myself! With the arrival of my daughter, it has been such a joy to get back into
Reading: Great Books for 2nd and 3rd GradersThis is the second installment in a two-part series on reading series for young elementary school-aged kids. Last week, I provided a list of great series for kindergarten and first graders…. This week, I’m focused on second and third graders.
My son is in the home stretch of second
Reading: Great Books for Kindergarten-First Graders…If you have a child in the early elementary (K-1) grades, you probably struggle like I do with finding good reads for your kiddo.
My daughter’s in kindergarten and the leveled readers that are sent home from school seem a bit dry and dull. The characters are not that engaging
Read Literacy Into Servicemy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
This week’s Season of Service challenge involves serving with books, which can be great mediums for education and conversation.
10 Tips to Serve By Reading
Here are 10 bite-size ideas:
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Positives and Negatives of the Accelerated Reading ProgramI am not a reading expert but recently I wrote that my younger kids each learned to read at a much earlier age than my oldest did. I opined that it likely was because the little kids had older siblings… as role models and ‘reading buddies’.
I placed that conversation
…I come from a family full of readers. I vividly remember one family vacation in San Diego where my mom read the entire time. She would stop every now and then to read us passages, telling us how much she loved the descriptive language. We all thought that reading must
Buy a cranberry-and-brie cupcake at the Sweet Tooth Fairy, so a donation can be made to prevent bullying.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
