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Nat Geo Kids ALMANAC Takes a Bite Out of “Summer Slide”
The newest edition of the Nat Geo Kids ALMANAC, packed with 10 sections of high interest topics, lets kids explore the world and keeps “summer slide” at bay. This boredom-busting book is the most popular children’s almanac on the planet, offering rich content, serious fun and interactive explorer-led challenge, and dynamic online extras. It’s the perfect summer reading selection for the back seat, camp, vacation, or downtime at home. Some Highlights include: More than 350 pages and 500+ amazing photos Updated maps, facts and reference materials Extensive digital extras at natgeokids.com/almanac NEW: Your World 2018 chapter with things to do, places to see and ways to change the world…
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The Importance of Celebrating National Reading Month
Start a routine that inspires them for life: This month is National Reading Month and schools and parents across the country are getting involved in promoting a love of reading in children. I love reading to my daughter and continue to do so even though she can read early chapter books. It is more than reading to her, we enjoy this downtime and pick out books to read together. Young children who read 20 minutes per day scored above the 90th percentile on standardized reading tests.* Take the challenge to read to your child each day, and create a love of reading to last a lifetime. (Source: Cunningham, A.E., &…
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Earn a FREE Book in the PBS Kids and Pottery Barn Kids “Summer Reading Challenge”
You know what a big fan I am of PBS Kids programming, but you might not know how much I devoured the Pottery Barn Kids catalogue when my daughter was in the womb to get ideas for her nursery! They have such great design ideas and the quality of their products are pretty fantastic! So the collaboration between PBS Kids and Pottery Barn Kids with their Summer Reading Challenge is a great fit! PBS Kids is committed to providing resources and suggestions to promote summer reading. “Research shows that children experience significant learning loss when they do not participate in educational activities during the summer months, and that loss is…
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How to Encourage Good Reading Habits in Children
Image found on Flickr Celebrate Reading During National Library Week: Those of you who like to celebrate the many holidays this month such as April Fool’s Day, Easter and of course National Chocolate Mousse Day, you might be interested to know its National Library Week! As an avid Kindle reader, I can’t even tell you the last time I really spent time in a library. As a kid my mom used to take me to the library all the time, and it was always a great feeling finding new stories to experience, or just to check out a magazine or video. (Remember the days of VHS?) Recently, I read an…
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Education: Gershwin and Mission Read
It’s hard to remember life without it…I, like many of you, am a part of a generation of students who grew up without the Internet – or even computers. While in elementary school in New Jersey, our teachers and librarians taught us to use the Dewey Decimal system to locate books. Remember those — the actual (paper index) cards with numbers and stamped dates! One assignment in particular stands out – we had to read a biography of a person we found interesting and then write a book report. My Lifetime Love Affair with George Gershwin: I went to a small elementary school and the set of biographies…
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JetBlue and PBS Kids Soar with Reading Program
Karl Alexander is a professor of sociology at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has studied the same group of almost 800 people over a span of 27 years. His research has concluded that children from less affluent, less educated backgrounds fare worse later in life than those who come from more privileged backgrounds. But his research also shows that what children do over the summer as far as educational activities can close this achievement gap. He has concluded that education outside the classroom, through summertime activities rooted in family life, can boost a child’s prospects for the future. (Source: www.cslspreads.org). A Lack of Resources: The problem is that many of these less affluent…
