Archive for 2011
To scribble in margins of books or not?
February 21, 2011
Truth be told, I do scribble in the margins of the books I read. I also date where and when I first read a book. And when I revisit the book, I take pleasure in the memories those annotations bring forth. Having said that, I also have a philosophical problem with writing in books, so […]
Do you cuddle up with your kids at night and read stories? If so, you won’t want to miss children’s literacy expert Diane Frankenstein, author of Reading Together, share her tips of making the most out of reading with your children!
February 21, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at Flourish Studios, 3020 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago http://www.juf.org/young_families/reading.aspx
Promoting a Culture of Literacy, by Diane W. Frankenstein IS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, The Official Magazine
February 15, 2011
Read a book. Ask a question, Start a conversation. Diane Frankenstein considers ways of promoting a culture of literacy in a school community through conversational reading. Conventional wisdom has become so focused on the importance of reading to children that it has somewhat ignored the critical component of the importance of talking with children about […]
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster should never go out of print!
February 14, 2011
Valentine’s Day is a very good excuse to become intimate with The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1963) by Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth) Using only black and red, Juster tells the poignant yet humorous tale of a straight line in love with a red dot, and the line’s attempts to […]
Charles Dickens believed in fancy and romance.
February 6, 2011
I don’t believe anyone ever outgrows fairytales. Charles Dickens, the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era believed in fancy and romance. Dickens, who would be 199 years old today understood the power and need for fairytales. In “Frauds on the Fairies” he wrote “In an utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a […]
