Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don’t meet your high standards.
Background knowledge is one reason children who read the most bring the largest amount of information to the learning table and thus understand more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. Ch...
Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. Fo...
Children’s books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation,
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
From 2,272 text messages a month in 2008, American teenagers (ages 13–17) ballooned to 3,339 messages a month in 2010, an average of six per waking hour. Simply put, students in one of the most format...
If there were a national time shortage, the malls would be empty, Netflix would be defunct, and the cable-TV companies would be bankrupt.
In a similar experiment involving reading to fetuses during the two and a half months before birth, DeCasper found the child’s heartbeat increased with a new story and decreased with a familiar one.
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it.
Not that parents are alone in their extreme behavior. That have more than enough company among school boards and high-ranking politicians who think if you fix the schools, they'll fix the kids. So, in...
Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion, 1997)
So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of...
So how do we educate the heart? There are really only two ways: life experience and stories about life experience, which is called literature. Great preachers and teachers—Aesop, Socrates, Confucius,...
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
The closest thing we have to a crap detector is a qualified librarian.
The eventual strength of our vocabulary is determined not by the ten thousand common words but by how many rare words we understand.
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know;and the more you know...
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