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A Book Is More Than a Book: Interactive Reading for Parents
By Allison Wedell Schumacher When my daughter was just learning to talk, she thought a book was called a “to read.” She would toddle toward us, board book firmly clutched in one tiny hand, saying, “To weeed? To weeed?” Who … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood
Tagged children’s books, early childhood books, SEL, social emotional, thinking skills
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The Plot Thickens: How to Improve Young Children’s Critical Thinking Skills During Storytime
By Allison Wedell Schumacher “That isn’t what it says. It says, ‘Scritch, scratch, scratch, scritch.’” This was the egregious error four-year-old Suzanne pointed out to her Head Start teacher, Wendie Bramwell, when Wendie tried to paraphrase Beatrix Potter’s original wording … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood
Tagged children’s books, early childhood books, SEL, social emotional, thinking skills
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How to Ignite a Love of Reading in Young Children
By Judy Lalli, M.S., author of I Like Being Me: Poems about kindness, friendship, and making good choices It’s all about relationships. Young children who have warm, interactive relationships with the adults in their lives will show enthusiasm for whatever … Continue reading
Avoid the Summer Slump: 7 Ways to Encourage Reluctant Readers All Summer Long
By Andrew Hawk It’s hard to believe that another school year is almost in the books and it will soon be summer again. One of the hardest things for teachers to cope with is spending a year working hard to … Continue reading
Character Education Books That Every Counselor Needs
By Barbara Gruener Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. For the past two decades, I’ve been obsessed with picture books that can teach and help reinforce the values we espouse at … Continue reading
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Tagged books, children’s books, teacher resources
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