TAG: reading together
5 Tried & True Ways to Keep Kids Reading All Summer
Posted in Parents and Teachers on August 3, 2022 at 6:00 am
By Alison Johnson One of the most important things to do this summer is to encourage the children in your life to read. For some of us, this can be difficult task. If kids only read for school, they might think of reading as trudging through a “classic” book or reading comprehension assignments. And they […]
Tags: books, challenge, family, graphic novels, kids, parents, reading, reading together, reluctant reader, Summer reading, teens, together, tweens
Not too young to talk about race and social justice: Library programs and other resources for starting the discussion
Posted in News, Parents and Teachers, Teens on September 10, 2020 at 6:00 am
BY MOLLY MOORE In the video and slide presentation How Kids Learn About Race put together by EmbraceRace, they show that children learn about race from a variety of sources. This means that, whether we are prepared to discuss race or not, children of all ages are receiving messages from everywhere around them. Children, even […]
Tags: aloud, book discussion, booklist, caregivers, grandparents, kids, out loud, parents, race, race inequity, reading, reading together, social justice, teachers, teens
Reading with children: Identity, voices, and shared memories
Posted in kids, Parents and Teachers on October 31, 2017 at 6:00 am
by Gwendolyn Haley I hear my grandfather’s voice when I read The Tale of Peter Rabbit. He did not read to me regularly. We lived very far away from him and only saw those grandparents once or twice a year. But when he read that story to me, it was magical. I have read the […]
Tags: authors, Beverly Cleary, books, Charlotte's Web, children's books, E. B. White, family, kids, Ludwig Bemelmans, parents, Peter Rabit, Ramona, reading, reading together, young learners
Prime Time Family Reading: discovering ideas together
Posted in Explore and Discover, kids, Parents and Teachers on August 16, 2016 at 6:00 am
By Gwendolyn Haley Something magical happens when families read books together and then talk about the big ideas they encounter. Reading is always fun, but talking about books and ideas helps us learn about the world and one another in a whole new way. Prime Time Family Reading from Humanities Washington taps into that magic […]
Tags: book discussion, booklists, books, cleverness, courage, developing readers, dreams, fairness, family, greed, kids, reading, reading comprehension, reading together, themes, young learners
