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Five Children’s Literature Authors Worth Rediscovering

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Recommending children's literature authors and sharing activities to help your kids fall in love with reading isn't difficult. In fact, narrowing down the list is the bigger challenge. This may be because I fell in love with reading as a child. In fact, when I was young and got in…

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Storytelling: How To Write a Book With Your Kids and Capture Family Memories

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Our family took in a homeless dog and named him Batman. We acquired him from the street and although he's grown up in our home for over a year now, he still acts homeless. He likes to jump on the counters, ravage for food, and create a disaster wherever he…

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Children’s Literacy: 5 Ways to Get Your Kids to Love Reading

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Reading books to kids, being creative when it comes to books, using technology to make reading fun — all of these activities help get kids to love reading. Did you know that more than 88 percent of children who have difficulty reading at the end of first grade…

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Positives and Negatives of the Accelerated Reading Program

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I 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…

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No Name-Calling Week: How to Teach Kids to Use Words Appropriately

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Name calling not only affects our children, it affects siblings, parents, and adults too. That is right! Adults are guilty in their relationships as well.  It is time to set an example for our children and stop the cycle. Remember when your mother used to say "sticks and stones…

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