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Reading Rockets How are wine and literacy related? Fledgling Wine will donate 60 books to children in need worldwide for each case of wine sold: http://ow.ly/DsO6
Source: ow.ly
The Fledgling Initiative aims to make awesome wine for the benefit of Room to Read, a non-profit organization extending literacy and educational opportunities to children worldwide. Every case sold will provide approximately 60 local language children’s books and promote education in the world’s poo...
Reading Rockets Our wonderful, warm interview with National Book Award Finalist Deborah Heiligman is now up! http://ow.ly/DPT0
Source: ow.ly
Deborah Heiligman writes fiction and nonfiction, for kids of all ages. She's published more than 26 books, exploring topics as diverse as religious celebrations around the world, babies, butterflies, honeybees, and a particularly charming "loves-to-hear-a-book" dog (our kind of dog!). Her 2008 book,...
Reading Rockets Great ideas for getting boys interested in reading by using fiction: http://ow.ly/D8tW
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We all know that boys can be more reluctant to read. They tend to speak later and read later than girls. As well, boys are less likely to want to be read to or spend time looking at books. But as I have said before, we also know what it takes to get them more interested. While using non-fiction is a...
Reading Rockets Are you going to the NAEYC Conference? We are too! Stop by our table and meet the Reading Rockets crew!
Reading Rockets Who's who in your child's school? Lots of dedicated professionals... http://ow.ly/Cvdy
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There are many people at your child's school who are there to help your child learn, grow socially and emotionally, and navigate the school environment. Here's a selected list of who's who at your school: the teaching and administrative staff as well as organizations at the district level. You might...
Reading Rockets Parents in the picture: building partnerships that last beyond "Back to School Night": http://ow.ly/Cvfo
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Often the lone volunteer in her sons' classrooms, Amy Anderson used to make assumptions about the other, missing parents — that they didn't care, or that their priorities were somehow out of whack. That was before she met Lorelei.
Reading Rockets Who is the exuberant administrator of "A Fine, Fine School"? Mr. Keene, Mr. Krupp or Mr. Lincoln? Take the quiz! http://ow.ly/Cv3G
Reading Rockets Top 10 ways to celebrate Geography Awareness Week, from the National Geographic "My Wonderful World" blog: http://ow.ly/CLnR
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Learn about My Wonderful World, a National Geographic-led campaign to increase geographic learning, and meet coalition members.
Reading Rockets Why it's so important to read aloud to your kids: http://ow.ly/BXAA
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I want to share this email I received from a reading specialist in response to my recent blogpost about parents pushing academics on preschool kids, who actually learn best through well-designed play...
Reading Rockets Test your kid lit IQ with our school-themed Daily Quiz, Nov 15-21, in celebration of NEA's American Education Week. http://ow.ly/CuYN
Reading Rockets "Anonyponymous" author, John Bemelmans Marciano, talks with us about paying loving homage to his grandfather's Madeline: http://ow.ly/BHNz
Source: ow.ly
John Bemelmans Marciano was born in 1970 and never had the chance to meet his famous grandfather, Ludwig Bemelmans. But he has carried on the legacy of Madeline in a new series of picture books that pay loving homage to the beloved character his grandfather created in 1939. Bemelmans Marciano brings...
Celebrate World Kindness Day with a random act of kindness! Send a free Reading Rockets e-card to thank a teacher who's making a difference, or slip your child a lunchbox note to let them know you're thinking of them...
Reading Rockets Galvanize? Silhouette? Leotard? New book "Anonyponymous" explores "the forgotten people behind everyday words." http://ow.ly/BHJX
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You might know that the tantalizing combination of peanut butter and jelly you're eating between two slices of bread was named after a certain Earl of Sandwich, but how many other words that we use every day are named after real people?
Reading Rockets "Mad woman in the forest gets a cottage." Check out writer Laurie Halse Anderson's fabulous new writing space. http://ow.ly/BETo
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Without further ado, I bring you the greatest gift a writer can ever receive. Behold! My writing cottage unveiled!
