Wow, what a week! It has been a joy to write about a topic that I feel so passionately about. I know I’ve only covered the surface but sadly the week has come to an end. I must say goodbye for now to the Growing Readers series.
My favorite part of the [...]
Guest Blogger: Patti Gibbons
Reading with children is an amazing way to communicate love to them. That is the motivation, born of times spent being read to in my own childhood as well as reading to my own little ones, that caused me to introduce a pile of favorite storybooks to the free-choice activities at [...]
I am an outspoken fan of the public library. I visit my library weekly. It is fulfilling to walk into the library empty handed and walk out an hour later with my arms stacked chest high with books. I’m not a big shopper but I imagine the feeling is similar to the [...]
When I think of being read to at an early age, from Dr. Seuss to Little House on the Prairie, I think of my dad. So when I decided to devote an entire week of my blog to reading, he was the first person that I contacted and asked to be a guest blogger. [...]
Lullabies are often the first stories that our children are exposed to as infants. As our children grow into toddlers and preschoolers they graduate to nursery rhymes complete with finger plays and body motions. As parents we love the familiarity of the tunes that we grew up with but we don’t always remember the [...]
Today I was the mystery reader in Megan’s classroom. In celebration of national reading month family members have been invited to drop-in and read to their child’s class. I read The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. It happens to be Megan’s favorite book. The story is about a little boy bunny [...]
Are you familiar with the African Proverb that asks, “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer is “One bite at a time.”
The same principle can be applied to reading. My daughter (6) has always been enthusiastic about reading but I am aware that this isn’t the case for every child. I’m [...]
Everyone has a favorite children’s book. My husband’s favorite is Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It is certainly a book that everyone can relate to! My list of favorites includes books that I love for purely sentimental reasons - they were read to me as [...]
Guest Blogger: Stacie Narlock
I love books. I always have a book with me, one at home, in my car, in my CD player, on my iPod. I am never without a book. Before I am anything else, I am a reader. As a Librarian and a mother of an [...]
There are three types of learners:
Visual Learners (learn by reading, seeing)
Auditory Learners (learn by listening, speaking)
Kinesthetic Learners (learn by moving, doing and touching)
A learning style is simply the way that your child approaches learning. Picture Books are an excellent way to develop your child’s learning style from the earliest age. [...]
