Young Readers: August Favorites

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

August Favorites

Time to Sleep, Sheep the Sheep! Mo Willems.
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late. Mo Willems.
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes. Salley Mavor.
Complete Adventures of Curious George: 70th Anniversary Edition. Margret and H.A. Rey.

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How to Encourage Reading through Author Studies - If you've ever considered tackling an author study but wondered *Is it worth the time?* *Is it worth the energy?or What can my students really get out of ...
10 months ago
Piper's Past Reads

2011 Books Completed - *Books Read in 2011 (100+ Reading Challenge 2011)* ** (1/11/11) 1. Agatha Raisin & the Case of the Curious Curate - M.C. Beaton 212p. (5/5) (1/13/11) 2. M...
10 months ago
Share a Story - Shape a Future

Share a Story 2011: All the Posts - Just as we did for Share a Story 2009 and Share a Story 2010, we have created a complete, one-stop index of all of the posts from this year's event. And oh, ...
11 months ago
100 Scope Notes

Covering the Newbery (#14): Dobry - 1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon Early Cover: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: I don’t mind this one. It connects, in an abstract way, with the story of a ...
11 months ago
Reading My Library

Progress Report - March 2011 - My last progress report was in October so I'm thinkin' it's time for an update! * Goal set for reading all of the children's picture books in our library...
11 months ago
Read, Read, Read!

What I Have Been Up To - Just a little note to let you know what I have been up to lately... Yep, those are my babes!!! Maybe I will blog again some day. Until then, I will just pa...
11 months ago
Kids Lit

This Blog Has Moved! - This blog has moved and changed names to Waking Brain Cells. Click the link to visit the new site and reset your bookmarks! There is also a new RSS feed t...
11 months ago
Big A little a

I will no longer... - be blogging here at* Big A little a*. I will keep the blog up for archival reasons, but please come visit me at my new blog, Crossover.
1 year ago
Reviewer X

Steph & Office Supplies: A Love Story - Somewhere on the other side of town, a young man by the name of Steph's Boyfriend is watching Supernatural. He's known to do pretty normal things from time...
1 year ago
ReadingYA: Readers' Rants: Black Lipstick & Comic Books

'My Prizes: An Accounting' : Book review - The late author comically skewers his various literary awards in 'My Prizes,' written in 1980 with an absurd and at times tender tone. "Love moves me to sp...
1 year ago
Read to Me

This blog is closing - Dear Friends, I will be posting about books for babies and toddlers on Thursdays at my Picture Book of the Day blog. Please join us there today for this fu...
1 year ago
What Adrienne Thinks About That

Arts and Crafts - Meet Albert the Zombie: I did not make Albert, but I wish I had. Or maybe not, as he was a Christmas gift from Olivia and Sabrina, and he is a pretty perfect...
1 year ago
Open Wide, Look Inside

The Sun for 1st Grade - These students will understand basic relationships between the sun and earth. They will learn that the sun is the source of energy and light and that it w...
1 year ago
In Need Of Chocolate

Non-Fiction Monday Round-Up - Every Monday, kidlit bloggers celebrate the fantastic non-fiction available for kids and teens. I’m excited to be today’s Non-Fiction Monday Round Up! Le...
1 year ago
Afterthoughts...

Times, They Are a'Changin' - Well, everyone, the time has come for me to close down Afterthoughts... As my job changes, my reading habits change, and I find I can no longer sustain a c...
1 year ago
Booking It

It's blogtastic - Thank you to those of you who have continued to check my blog in hopes that I would finally begin posting again. Unfortunately, I was not in a position to...
1 year ago
Story Time Smiles

Sesame Street:Song: I Love My Hair - Sesame Street is something most of us grew up with, and yet again they have come up with an AMAZING video to help kids love themselves and everything abou...
1 year ago
The 2010 Blog Improvement Project

Task #12: Your Blogging Bread and Butter - This week’s Blog Improvement Project task is based on an exercise I did with my blog back in July 2009. At the time, I was wondering about the ratio of boo...
1 year ago
Realta Reads

Months and Months Later - I am 37 books in. Here is a list. American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics by Roland Merullo The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry...
1 year ago
thebooknosher

David Wiesner - Art & Max Written and Illustrated by: David Wiesner Recommended Ages: 4-8 If you are not already familiar with David Wiesner, I highly recommend hightail...
1 year ago
Booklights

So Long and Farewell - I wasn't sure what to say in this final Booklights post, so I went to my library and asked my favorite characters for advice. Mo Willems' pigeon begged me: "...
1 year ago
The Book Bench

Too Busy To Read or Dust - Jill Stuart's *The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise* has been sitting on my nighttable doing what most things in my house do- collect dust. Do you mind du...
1 year ago
A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy

Something New To Remember - Something has been in the works here at Tea Cozy and I can finally share it with you all. This blog is moving! And not just moving, because... The new UR...
1 year ago
Princess of the Past

The Hypnotist by M. J. Rose - *Series:* The Reincarnationist - Book Three *Genre: *Thriller *Pages: *416 *Copyright:* 2010 *Rating:* 4 Stars *Synopsis:* *In Vienna a clandestine rob...
1 year ago
Picture Book of the Day

This blog has moved - As of June 7, 2010, this blog has moved to a new Picture Book of the Day address. Twitter Copyright © 2010 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
1 year ago
Read Alert

Books in the home = smarter kids - A study recently published in the journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility found that just having books around the house (the more, the bette...
1 year ago
Nonfiction Matters

What to Say and What Not to Say - When Teaching About the Dark Sides of History I spoke to a small gathering of New York City Social Studies teachers this past weekend about the ...
1 year ago
Get Kids Reading

Alis by Naomi Rich - Faced with the prospect of being forced by her parents to marry a forty year old priest whom she does not love, young Alis chooses instead to escape the s...
1 year ago
Reading with Momma

Sunday Salon & Read-a-thon Wrap Up - Can you say utter failure? They say that failure to plan is a plan for failure. Well, I am proof of it. While I looked forward to this read-a-thon, I didn'...
1 year ago
So many books....not enough time!

http://www.luxuryreading.com/2010/03/reviews-giveaway-develop-stronger.html -
1 year ago
Peapod Babytime

Five Fat Peas - I randomly came across this enchanting finger play and fell in love. Since I call my babies, the Peapods, it was a perfect fit! Five fat peas ( show all 5 ...
2 years ago
Read. Imagine. Talk.

Back to Teaching... - It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me, with lots going on. One bit of big news is that it looks like I am going to be teaching next year. I've been offer...
2 years ago
Scrub-a-Dub-Tub, a Reading Tub Blog

Frustrated Doesn’t Begin to Cover It - I’ve come to the conclusion that the relationship with my computer suffers the same ups and downs as the ones in *real* life. What was supposed to be seaml...
2 years ago
Deliciously Clean Reads

Homespun Light - If you are still following over here, please hop on over to Homespun Light. That's where all the new content is...
2 years ago
Bookends

We're moving! - Bookends is moving! We are are now the Youth blog for Booklist Online. You can find us at: http://bookends.booklistonline.com/. We hope you will bookmark o...
3 years ago
The SLJ Blog

Oh Well...Maybe Next Year - *The 50 Most Important People On The Web by Christopher Null*. And* NO* he doesn't think that *YOU* (like Time magazine and I t... (more)
4 years ago
Early Moments, the New Place for Parents of Young Children

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Reasons to Read Aloud to Your Child

Conditions the child to associate reading with pleasure, an association that is necessary in order to maintain reading as a lifelong activity
Contributes to background knowledge for all other subject areas, including science, history, geography, math, and social studies
Provides the child with a reading role model
Creates empathy toward other people, because literature values humanity and celebrates the human spirit and potential, offering insight into different lifestyles while recognizing universality
Increases a child's vocabulary and grammar, and has the potential to improve writing skills
Improves a child's probability of staying in school
Improves future probability of employment and higher quality of life
Increase life span by virtue of correlated education, employment, and higher quality of life
Lowers probability of imprisonment
Improves problem-solving and critical-thinking skills that are fundamental and transferable to all other areas of learning
Offers information
Offers laughter and entertainment and an alternative to television
Improves attention span
Stimulates the imagination
Nurtures emotional development and improves self esteem
Reading skills are accrued skills that are bound to improve over time..a countdown to academic success