| Piddle Diddle Stuck in the Middle This book focuses on the unique circumstances that surround being a middle child. While the main character in the book Kali, is a dog, she finds herself experiencing many of the same feelings that a middle child might experience... | |
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| Students provide 500 books to area restaurants These books are not quelling hunger pangs, but they are helping children develop an appetite for literature.
The volumes are ones being provided to local restaurants through a new Books-N-Bites program operated by students at Greenwood and Island City [Oregon] elementary schools... | |
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| Debate: Do Teachers Need Education Degrees? Debate: Should the public schools reduce the weight they give to education school credentials in pay and promotion decisions? Is this happening already, and, if so, what is replacing the traditional system for compensating teachers? Read the opinions of nine education professionals . . . | |
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| Reading This (And Anything Else) Might Save Your Child’s Life Do you know how many states calculate whether or not they have adequate prison space for future felons? In Arizona, they look at the reading levels of their fourth graders...Reading scores slipping? Well, we need to build more prisons.
Don’t believe that books can save your child’s life? Read on… | |
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| Language taught best in bursts School age children with language and literacy problems are better off with intense daily therapy rather than extended therapy, according to a recent study.
The study, led by Professor Ron Gillam, the 2009 recipient of Curtin University of Technology’s prestigious Haydn Williams Fellowship... | |
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| Arabic-Language Children’s Prize to Launch Arabic-language children’s publishers have a new book prize: the Etisalat Award for Arab Children’s literature, which promises one million dirham ($270,000) to the best Arab children’s book of the year.
“The prize will hopefully bring about some healthy competition between the current... | |
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Next Test: Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers So what kind of teachers could a school get if it paid them $125,000 a year?......
....The school, called the Equity Project, is premised on the theory that excellent teachers — and not revolutionary technology, talented principals or small class size — are the critical ingredient for success. | |
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| My new picturebook! Well, I have officially delivered final art to the client for my first full scale picturebook! "Reuben Wells: Hero of the Iron Rails" is being published by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Guild, and is about how "Reuben" (the steam engine) went from Madison Hill to becoming a major part of... | |
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| Hooked on books “I so much want them to get into reading,” al Zaabi says as she watches the children... She really has to push, however, to get the children to read in their mother tongue: “They don’t like reading in Arabic.” Children’s books in Arabic tend to be, in her words, “shallow”... | |
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| The Twitter Experiment Dr. Monika Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter... | |
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| Rick Riordan on tour! If you haven't heard about the release of the last book in the Percy Jackson series, THE LAST OLYMPIAN, than you obviously don't have a tweener in the house. The author, Rick Riordan, has been on a cross country tour for two weeks promoting it. The photo doesn't even begin to do the crowd justice... | |
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| Thinking Outside the Book: Summer Reading Every teacher and librarian hopes reading makes its way to the top of their students’ summer activity list. As educators, we know that a summer that doesn’t include reading can lead to a drop in literacy scores. In an effort to prevent regression, encourage summer reading by providing... | |
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Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter What is the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make?
Here are some answers that you might like to share:
1. Together we’re better
Teaching can be a lonely business... | |
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| Play the game! That night when I logged onto our class Ning, I saw that a number of boys had written about our lesson. One boy called his blog post ‘Play the game’. He wrote:
".. in Years 11 and 12, it’s barely even about the learning at all. … In most subjects, we learn how to pass the exams [play the game]... | |
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| The Importance of Investing in Literacy During the critical early years of cognitive development, many impoverished children lack opportunities to build their literacy skills. They generally hear 30 million fewer words by age three than their more privileged peers do (due to a limited experience of being spoken or read aloud to). When... | |
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| May is 'Get Caught Reading Month' The love of reading takes center stage this month as “Get Caught Reading,” the Association of American Publishers’ popular reading promotion campaign, heads into its ninth year... | |
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| Getting the books across one way or another It might appear that Indonesians love watching soap operas more than reading books, but the snowballing movement of community libraries proves otherwise, as children and adults alike eagerly await a new book on their laps... | |
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| Dolly Parton: The Book Lady For the last 13 years, country music icon Dolly Parton has been immersed in her literacy program, Imagination Library, which provides one book each month to registered preschoolers.
With six million books mailed each year, Imagination Library recently teamed up with Rotary International... | |
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| YA Authors Cafe interviews Carol Lynch Williams YA Authors Cafe interviews Carol Lynch Williams. The Chosen One, her newest book is about thirteen-year-old Kyra who has grown up in an isolated polygamous community without questioning her father’s three wives and her twenty brothers and sisters... | |
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| School Librarians: Getting a Piece of the Stimulus Pie Chances are you’ve heard about the recently passed stimulus funds—and you’re also probably wondering how you can get your hands on it.
With passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a considerable amount of money will be flowing from Congress to the states... | |
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| US fans must wait for Byatt’s latest Note to publishers: Last I heard, London was only a 6-hour plane ride from New York City. And Canada? Even closer. So why do US fans have to wait nearly six months for A.S... | |
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| Readers unleashed: Therapy dog helps promote literacy Kiani, the book-loving dog, has warmed her way onto the laps of young readers.
The 3-year-old sheltie is a professionally trained therapy dog whose handler, Lori Kannenberg, has a passion for supporting young readers on their way to proficiency... | |
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| Promoting a Culture of Reading in Kenya . . . We take for granted that students have access to libraries, either in their schools or in the community . . . In Kenya, things are very different. Efforts to encourage independent reading will be pointless if the students have no access to reading materials . . . | |
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| Tips To Help Children Develop Strong Reading Habits Getting a child to read can be challenging, but a recent survey found that 96 percent of U.S. and Canadian parents recognize the importance of having strong reading skills for school and as an adult.
"As U.S. literacy rates worsen, parents need to make daily reading a priority... | |
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| African writer wants books, not bridges "A few years ago, I was busy signing autographs on newspapers and pieces of paper.
No-one could afford the books anymore.
African governments have not put in place well-planned book development policies.
Books are subject to the same sales and duty taxes as other commodities... | |
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| Horton, hear us roar! (VIDEO) Horton the elephant is 54 years old, but it sure doesn't show.
He's gray and wrinkly, of course, but that's to be expected from an elephant, no matter how old... | |
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| Worlds Outfoxed by a Wily Inner Child William Steig's daughter, Maggie Steig, recalls a game her father used to play with her: “What would you rather be?”
Would you rather be a tree (sturdy, long-lived, a home for birds) or a flower (a short but exciting life, carried in weddings, pressed into books by princesses) . . . | |
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| Anne of Green Gables turns 100 Anne Shirley may be getting on in years but she hasn't lost her spark.
"She's mischievous, which I sort of like," says Greta Whipple, an 11-year-old who recently read Anne of Green Gables, the classic Canadian novel about an orphan who gets adopted by a farm family in Prince Edward Island... | |
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| In China, 175 million people now study English Newsweek Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue - China's recent rise has brought with it a new conventional wisdom: that everyone must learn Mandarin. But no one's told South Korea yet. Though Chinese is increasingly popular here, the nation seems to be suffering a profound case of English fever... | |
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