All Posts Tagged With: "Reading & writing"
Reading: One of the best ways to prepare your teenager for college
By Lynn O’Shaughnessy
Author of “The College Solution”
One of the best ways you can prepare your teenager for college is to encourage her to read. As a practical matter, a teenager who reads is not only likely to achieve better grades in high school, but also earn higher scores on the SAT or ACT.
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14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Help teens, kids avoid the summer reading slide
If teens and younger kids don’t read during the summer, their reading level can decline two, three or even four months. Educators have a name for it: the summer slide.
Tim Shanahan, director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Chicago, said parents with a ready supply of great reads are a great cure [...]
29Jun2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
Help your child fall in love with books; advice from “The Book Whisperer”
Educator Donalyn Miller is known as the Book Whisperer for good reason; she has a way of helping even the most reluctant reader fall in love with books.
Each year, students in her sixth grade class in Keller, Texas, are asked to read 40 books. That is not a misprint - 40 books. With rare exception, [...]
3Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Mystery solved: Writing examples for each elementary school grade
Knowing how well a child should write in a given grade has got to be one of the great mysteries of education for parents.
By contrast, knowing what math skills your child should master each year is much easier to grasp. Simple multiplication tables, for example, are taught in second grade - 1s, 2s and [...]
27May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Tips for helping a struggling reader become a strong reader
Children who are struggling with their reading need a patient, encouraging adult to sit and listen to them read. These tips can help you help your child become a strong reader.
These tips come from Everyone A Reader, a volunteer program in San Diego County that has trained thousands of tutors at approximately 150 schools.
PREPARE
Take [...]
14May2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
Volunteers help struggling readers catch up to their classmates
Sometimes all it takes for a young, struggling reader to become a successful reader is a reading buddy, a patient adult who listens to her read.
That’s exactly what Marilyn Schmeling and hundreds of other volunteers do through Everyone A Reader, a terrific volunteer program that trains them in just three hours to work with young [...]
14May2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
Book exchanges: A great way to get free books into kids’ hands
Smart parents know smart kids need to be strong readers. We also know we’re trying to save money where we can.
Here’s a great (environmentally friendly) idea for getting books into the hands of our kids for no money: Organize a book exchange.
Parent Randi Hock organizes an annual book exchange at Solana Vista Elementary School, [...]
22Apr2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
An expert’s tips to bring out the reader in every child
Looking for some great tips to help your child fall in love with reading? Try these from Donalynn Miller, author of “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader.” Miller teaches sixth-grade language arts and social studies in Texas who is said to have a gift for helping children fall in love with the written work.
Miller’s [...]
8Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Author and teacher Laura Preble on teens and their reading habits
A lot is said these days about most teens not liking to read much in general and not liking to read the classics in particular. Raised in the age of iPods, texting and Twittering, this should come as no surprise.
I was fortunate recently to ask Laura Preble, a veteran high school English teacher and author, [...]
1Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
