Surrounding kids with various books and making them easily accessible this the best way to get them to read. Here are three ways to build an at-home library for your kids. Shop Local I am so fortunate to live in a town with a fantastic downtown, rich with restaurants, shops, and once upon a time, an amazing bookstore. I am, …
As I prepare for my upcoming classes, I wanted to share a simple but powerful strategy that I plan to sprinkle in throughout my sessions. Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.” Think about this! The ability to only select six words to tell an entire …
Being a reading teacher, my passion for children’s literature began way before the birth of my three lovely ladies. But, it was the birth of my first daughter that I obsessively began to buy books. I knew that if I was going to cultivate lifelong readers, the first step was to surround them with books. Seeing that our first daughter …