COMPARTMENTALIZATION…WHAT IS IT? When I was a classroom teacher, then a tutor, then a parent of even school aged children (by 3rd grade or so), then a reading coach/mentor to 100s of teachers who had 100s of students, and now a grandparent, I taught them all one very long word–and even the kids could say […]
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Nearly all children begin first grade with a great desire to learn to read. They come to school (or to their screens) eagerly anticipating the promise and self-realization that “they will learn to read”. I have often repeated Marilyn Jager Adams’ story, which I must have heard well over twenty years ago, whenever I had
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“PARENTING BEGINS WAY BEFORE ONE BECOMES A PARENT” -A WISE PERSON SAID THIS TO ME WHAT IS PARENTING? I thought this first blog post perhaps should begin to address the notion of ‘parenting’ itself. What does it mean to become a parent? What are the responsibilities of a parent? What does language development and literacy
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