Posted by Kristen McLane on March 18th, 2008 in Books and Resources for Children, DIY, Growing Readers, Kids, WFMW
This summer a friend and I will be organizing a book club for our daughters. Our is going to be a mother-daughter book club. Besides that fact that my friend and I are readers and we want to help our daughters become readers, a mother-daughter book club sounded just plain fun to do. [...]
Posted by Kristen McLane on March 18th, 2008 in Books and Resources for Children, Growing Readers, Kids
Tuesday’s guest blogger Maria Meachum introduced TumbleBooks, an online collection of animated talking picture books. TumbleBooks is available through elementary schools and libraries. Here are three more websites that promote reading. All of these websites are free and can be accessed from a home computer.
Starfall
Starfall is the place, “where children have [...]
Posted by Kristen McLane on March 18th, 2008 in Books and Resources for Children, Growing Readers, Kids
Guest Blogger, Maria Meachum
As a Librarian, and more importantly as a Mom, I have observed that when it comes to reading children seem to follow one of two paths. They read faster than you can get books from the library or they have great difficulty in learning to read (or just don’t enjoy reading [...]