As you can see, a few of us have been on a banned book trip. In an earlier blog I personally posted, I talked about the importance of our children reading and how it can help with many different academic areas: vocabulary, parts of speech, context, and structure are just to name a few. Continued [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reading’
Better Answers for Those Open Ended Questions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accademics, banned, books, grades, imagionation, old age, open ended, questions, reading, state testing, tests on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Hundred Book Challenge
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, reading, schools on September 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Recently, I went to a public school in Camden for my field experience as an education major. While there we learned about a new initiative that the Camden schools are using called the “100 Book Challenge.” The goal of this program is to get elementary school students to read more and thus expand their education. [...]
Books & Getting Kids to Read!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, education, harry potter, imagionation, kids, language, reading, sexual, spelling, vocabulary, witches, wizards on September 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I know that there are a lot of great books out there and with them a handful of books on a banded list. I personally think it’s all funny though. I thought the idea of writing and reading was to get others to read. Am I wrong? Books such as Harry Potter are band in [...]