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Fabulous Literacy Articles, Ideas and Research
Hello Everyone!
I wanted to begin this month by sharing some great articles, ideas and research from clever people about reading, books and child development. I hope you find them as interesting as I did!
Picture Books
1. Want to find out the New York Times Best Selling Picture Books for January 2014? Click Here
(Source: The Children’s Book Review)
2. The Guardian also compiled a list of The Best Children’s Literature of 2013. This list covers picture books to novels – Click Here
4. Phonological Awareness is an essential pre-reading skill. Find out The Importance of Phonological Awareness Here
(Source: Wired Cosmos)
5. Seven Ways to Increase Phonological Awareness Here
(Source: North Shore Pediatric Therapy)
Child Development
6. Read about a new study in Child Development which suggests early hearing speed may predict a student’s reading and spelling Here.
(Source: Education Week)
7. Hillary Clinton shared a graph that showed the percentage of children, ages birth through two, who had a family member read, sing or tell them a stories everyday in the past week – Click Here
(Source: Washington Post)
8. This article focuses on the idea that the more words children hear, the more their language skills grow – Click Here
(Source: Counsel & Heal)
Reading and Literacy
9. Eight Tips for Teaching Your Child To Read – Click Here
(Source: Rusty and Rosy Reading)
10. Getting Your Kids To Love Reading – Click Here
(Source: Love Reading 4 Kids)
11. Twenty Five Ways Schools Can Promote Literacy and Independent Reading – Click Here
(Source: TeachThought)
12. Important early literacy terms every parent needs to know – Click Here