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Creative Summer Storytime Ideas
By Amadee Ricketts, author of Gentle Hands and Other Sing-Along Songs for Social-Emotional Learning While every season has its charms, summer brings a sense of freedom that can make it the perfect time to add creative elements to your storytime … Continue reading
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
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Tagged children’s books, early childhood books, SEL, social emotional, thinking skills
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Enter to win the Zach Rules series!
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Ann Brown! This month we’re giving away all three books in the Zach Rules series. Each book presents a single, simple story line involving everyday problems common with kids ages 5 … Continue reading
