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Share the Gift of Story on World Read Aloud Day

Pam Allyn | Posted 04.29.2013 | Impact
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Pam Allyn

Reading aloud delivers a deep comfort for a child. In stories, they find a safe place to return to, and tools to navigate life. Books provide a risk-free environment to grapple with the world's big questions.

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What Is Reading?

David Kudler | Posted 04.22.2013 | Books
Read More: Audiobooks, Reading Aloud, Reading, Modes of Reading, Narration, Print, Ebooks, Reading Practices, Reading Methods, Books News
David Kudler

Whether I'm flipping paper pages, scanning through an ebook, listening to an audiobook or reading into a mic, reading a book is reading a book. Or is it?

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New Year's Resolutions Your Kids Wish You'd Make (and Keep)

Christina Pesoli | Posted 03.02.2013 | Parents
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Christina Pesoli

It's that time of year again; time to take stock and make changes. Instead of pledging yet again to take off extra pounds or cut back on spending, your kids have something else in mind for you. The following are the New Year's resolutions that they'd like you to make -- and keep.

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World Read Aloud Day - A Worldwide Celebration (Slideshow)

Rocco Staino | Posted 05.08.2012 | Books
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Rocco Staino

"It's terrific to watch kids respond to print on paper. If we get one in ten of these kids to become avid readers then this event is worth it."

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Readers Are Never Alone: A World Read Aloud Day Interview With Todd Parr

Pam Allyn | Posted 05.07.2012 | Impact
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Pam Allyn

On World Read Aloud Day, I honor the many authors who write for children, for their tender care of the precious lives and understandings of children. Of their fears, hopes and dreams. Of using language to say, beloved child, you are never alone.

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How a Naked Emperor Taught Me to Reject Wipe Warmers

Vincent O'Keefe | Posted 05.06.2012 | Parents
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Vincent O'Keefe

All new parents have that point where the marketing and peer pressure have to stop. For us, it was at the "wipe warmer."

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What Is Literacy?

Pam Allyn | Posted 04.21.2012 | Good News
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Pam Allyn

As we get closer to the celebration of World Read Aloud Day on March 7, I want to take a moment to share why I think this is such an important day.

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Parentlode Book Club: Reading Aloud, Loving to Read

Lisa Belkin | Posted 02.01.2012 | Parents
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Lisa Belkin

There is reading, and there is reading, and over the decades educators have refined exactly what it is we are aiming to do when reading aloud to a child.

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It's Time to Move the Education Debate from Conversation to Action

Brian Gallagher | Posted 08.30.2011 | Impact
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Brian Gallagher

Problems start early with two-thirds of American fourth graders who cannot read at grade level and continues to high school with 1.2 million students dropping out each year.

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Professors Read Entire Books Aloud To Students

Inside Higher Ed | Posted 07.12.2011 | College
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While the oral reading is as old as literature itself, it is not the norm on campuses. But faculty members and students who have participated in such ...

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Listening to Bush Reading Bush

Richard Klass | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Richard Klass

Why would a Liberal Democrat who opposed the Iraq War and most other policies of President George W. Bush read his new book, Decision Points? The ans...

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The Pros and Cons of Sharing My First Fledgling Pages

Jennie Nash | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Jennie Nash

I'm about to head off to visit a local book club who read The Threadbare Heart. I love doing these events, and am always amazed at the care with which people read their books.

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