Last week I was lucky enough to present a talk on reading to the PTA. It was a great turnout, and I think everyone enjoyed the treats! Here is a link to the notes, if you couldn't make it and would like some more information.
Modeling reading is the best way to get your kids to read! Have bookshelves readily available and at eye level for your children. Get obsessed with your book, and show it. Say: "Not right now, I'm reading my book!" If you are not sure how to get back into reading, here are some great tips!
This is my favorite image from this semester. This student wanted to read during her break, and her teacher took the time to sit and connect with her in this special moment. It is easy to see that they are enjoying being together and sharing a reading experience. Makes me proud to be at ISS! Holidays are a great way to catch up with reading, and books make the best gifts! When reading with your child this holiday, give your child
I know I keep posting lots of websites, but I keep coming across them! Remember over the holidays, read to, read with, and listen to your kids read! 25 Ridiculously Wonderful Books To Read With Kids In 2015 is a great site full of new books to read with elementary school children. Happy Holiday reading!
Michael Morpurgo writes about his love of libraries. Apart from the ISS library, find your nearest library in Singapore here!
Brainpickings!
Intelligent and imaginative tales of love, loneliness, loyalty, loss, friendship, and everything in between. “I don’t write for children,” Maurice Sendak scoffed in his final interview. “I write — and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’” “It is an error,” wrote J.R.R. Tolkien seven decades earlier in his superb meditation on fantasy and why there’s no such thing as writing for children, “to think of children as a special kind of creature, almost a different race, rather than as normal, if immature, members of a particular family, and of the human family at large.”Indeed, books that bewitch young hearts and tickle young minds aren’t “children’s books” but simply great books — hearts that beat in the chest of another, even if that chest is slightly smaller. This is certainly the case with the most intelligent and imaginative “children’s” and picture-books published this year. (Because the best children’s books provide, as Tolkien believed, perennial delight, step into the time machine and revisit previous selections for 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010.) |
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