National Young Readers Week 11/8 – 11/12

 1. Raising a Reader: Read aloud to your children every day.  Effective storybook reading is an interactive process.  If we wait until after reading to discuss the story, we are missing out on valuable literacy opportunities.  When you precede the reading by inviting predictions and personal connections, you are creating context for the reading.   Taking […]

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Library Scavenger

  Teach your children how to find information rather than concentrating on the information itself.  There’s so much to learn and so many sources of information, that you have to know how to find what you want.   PROJECT: To find information using different library reference materials to encourage kids to learn how to do […]

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