Learning about letters and the sounds they make... phonics/ phonetics ... are important parts of learning how to read.  Engaging children in...

Are you looking for a new children's book to read to your students during the first week of school? A book to make them feel positi...

There are two famous sled dog races that take place in Alaska each year, the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. The Iditarod is held each year on...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the book  Saving Planet Earthly by our friends at ClimateScience.  Saving Planet Earthly introduced t...

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and behavior to animals and objects.  When authors use anthropomorphism in thei...

Using children's books to introduce vocabulary words to young readers is an important strategy used regularly by preschool and elementar...

Empathy is at the heart of what it means to be human. It’s a foundation for acting ethically, for good relationships of many kinds, f...

When teaching reading to young or struggling readers, teachers often use poetry as one of the strategies to help them.  There are a lot...

Rhyming words is one of the first skills children learn as early readers.   Being able to rhyme words teaches children about how lang...

I need to lay something out there for everyone to see.  I am a HUGE advocate for keeping music education in our schools, so when the au...

Call me silly, but I believe there is something wonderful and magical about autumn.  I love the colors in the trees, the crispness in t...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called  How to Grow Celery from Food Scraps .  In that post, I talked about the disconnect ch...

xī wàng míng yuè néng bǎ wǒ mén dě zhù fú hé huān lè dōu dài gěi nǐ. 希 望 明 月 能 把 我 们 的 祝 福 和 欢 乐 都 带 给 你。 May the full moon brin...

Hello, friends! Welcome to Multicultural Children's Book Day 2016 . Multicultural Children's Book Day (also known s MCBD) is a...