Reading Solutions – December 2019
I’m Dreaming of a White Jólabókaflóð. Imagine this: It’s Christmas Eve. Outside the snow covers everything. Inside the family is gathered around the fire sipping hot chocolate and happily reading their Christmas presents. Yes, reading. Christmas Eve in Iceland is a bibliophile’s dream holiday. Jólabókaflóð pronounced yo-la-bok-a-flot means “Yule Book Flood.” That’s right, Christmas Eve […]
Reading Solutions – November 2019
A Season of Change Change is in the air at the Children’s Reading Alliance. Recently, one of our First Teacher/Primer Maestro (FT/PM) team members achieved a goal that seemed impossible just a few years ago. Olga was a parent participant at a First Teacher class four years ago when her youngest child was three. She […]
Reading Solutions – October 2019
Reading, Writing and the Meaning of Life In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent, the last human, searches the universe for the meaning of life. Most of us don’t have to go that far. Reading transports us across time and space and connects us to people we’ll probably never […]
Reading Solutions – September 2019
Long before there is reading there is talking. The kind of talking parents do is one key to their child’s future economic success. I’ve read that a child who hears 30 million words before entering kindergarten has a learning advantage. The question is what are the words a baby, toddler, preschooler needs to hear. Education […]