This is Oliver, the adorable grandson of one of my longtime friends and colleagues, Sharon R. Please do spend literally 1 minute watching this short video. Here it is! This 17 month old provides us with much information we can use as we approach helping our children understand and enjoy language and literacy, and of […]
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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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