Archive for 2012
Talking Values with Elementary School Aged Children
March 13, 2012
Diane does a Webinar for PJ Library Part of a series of Talking Values with Elementary School Aged Children http://pj.gijptech.org/?page_id=733 Click on Value Lesson Webinar found along the top bar of the page. Scroll down to #6. The Art of Conversational Reading with Elementary Age Children, ages 6-8.
Distraction— a drawback of reading a book on a device.
March 6, 2012
A recent article in the NYT, “Finding your Book Interrupted…By the Tablet You Read It on.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/business/media/e-books-on-tablets-fight-digital-distractions.html?_r=1&ref=books calls attention to some of the drawbacks of reading on a device. “Finding your Book Interrupted” speaks to the distracting nature of reading on a device. Children reading books they hold in their hands encourage then to acquire […]
The Cat in the Hat was a book that changed the way kids learned to read.
March 2, 2012
Theodor Seuss Geisel (3.2.1904), best known as Dr. Seuss is credited with “killing off” the Dick and Jane Books by creating the first I Can Read book in 1957. Here is the back story to how The Cat in the Hat came to be written. In 1954 John Hersey wrote an article in Life Magazine […]
Don’t even think of allowing your child to leave childhood behind without experiencing the sheer delight of the Frances books.
March 1, 2012
Russell Hoban, author of more than fifty books for children, including some true classics of children’s literature, died December 13,2011. His book, A Bargain for Frances is one of those books I will always remember, as much for the story line a for the conversation the book prompted. Badgers, Thelma and Frances are best friends […]
Aldous Huxley said, “ Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Let’s prove him wrong!
February 27, 2012
Rules and parenting go hand in hand and all too often conversations on rules can easily sound like a sermon or a warning. As children get older they get very good at seeing one of these conversations coming and they tune us out. They have heard it before—and often they have heard it multiple times. […]
