This is a sponsored post When I began looking for my first teaching job straight out of graduate school, I remember my mom suggesting maybe first grade shouldn’t be my first choice. She was a lifelong educator who knew the pressure that came with teaching kids how to read. I ignored her advice and jumped…
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6 Reasons to Use Audible to Keep Kids Reading All Summer
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Audible As another busy school year winds down and we look towards pool time, vacations, camps, and unstructured time that are synonymous with summer, this is also the time of the year that we begin worry about the loss of skills that our kids…
Why I Let My Kids Read Captain Underpants Books and Their Thoughts on Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot #PilkeyPower
This is a sponsored post created in partnership with Scholastic It’s no secret that my two kids love Captain Underpants and while the books are filled with potty humor and misspellings that make some adults cringe, I have no problem letting them read them and I had no problem welcoming Captain Underpants and the Sensational…
Dav Pilkey’s Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot Series Motivates Reluctant Readers
This is a sponsored post One of the biggest challenges that parents and teachers face in the elementary years is getting reluctant readers to pick up a book. As teachers try to encourage independent reading skills by helping their students find books that are just right for them, it’s important that we encourage a love…
How to Find Great Books & Motivate Reluctant Readers with eBooks
March is all about reading but in all honesty, encouraging a love of reading is something that should be done each and every day. Special days such as World Read Aloud Day (March 6), National Grammar Day (March 4), Dr. Seuss’s birthday (March 2) and the National Education Association designation of March 1 as Read…
Download Favorite Comics for Free on comiXology.com
While it may not seem that reading comics includes much reading, the Sunday funnies and comic books provide such pleasure to kids that they’re the perfect way to encourage more reading at home. Parents who cherish reading favorite comic books on digital devices or young readers who share their love will be interested to know…
Tips to Support New Common Core Curriculum at Home (w. Scholastic nonfiction giveaway)
One of the highly anticipated topics for this year’s Back to School nights has been about curriculum changes. The new Common Core Curriculum Standards are being implement in 45 states beginning this school year. It represents a paradigm shift that makes parents uncomfortable because it’s a departure from what we used to know. At the…
