Tag: reading
group name: childrenslibrary
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February 28, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
Welcome to my group! This is all new to me so please bear with me. I am currently a children's / young adult librarian at a large, modern, suburban public library. I've been in . . .
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March 22, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
For grades 5-8
Historical Fiction, Newbury Honor Book
Matthew "Moose" Flanagan's father just got a new job. On Alcatraz. In 1935. . . .
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March 01, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
There are many picture books out there that are lyrics to songs. Some of the songs are traditional, like I've been Working on the Railroad by Nadine Bernard Wescott. Some of the songs are . . .
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March 27, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
Spring has arrived to our little town. The other day my daughters and I spotted a Robin as we walked and I was reminded of how excited I would get as a little girl to spot my first Robin of the spring. . . .
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November 16, 2007 11:59 PM EST --
First of all, I would like to say, that I'm not the perfect mom. I can't cook worth a lick, and my organizational skills aren't as up to par as they could be. We don't have a game night . . .
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July 11, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
The boys and I just returned home from our small public library. This is an excersion we love to make but haven't done so nearly as often this summer as we'd have preferred, or even as in . . .
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June 25, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
Like most children, Gideon loves to read, or rather be read to.
These are some of Gideon's personal book collection. Some of his favorites are in the front. (Spot, Maisy, the Halloween board . . .
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July 16, 2007 01:03 PM EDT --
This is a piece to introduce the reader to the Reading Rockets website. The article republished here represents some of the research-based . . .
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June 17, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Mr. Crocodile has carefully planned out his day - he even wrote out a schedule - but everything goes awry when the mischievous monkeys arrive. Everywhere he goes, the monkeys follow and all Mr. Crocodile . . .
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June 26, 2007 07:01 AM EDT --
As I mentioned the other day Gideon's enrolled in the Summer Reading programs at our library. We are actually about to start week two today, so I'm a bit behind on getting these articles up. I'm . . .
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May 18, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
After their teacher reads them a book about dragons, Mei Lin’s classmates decide the perfect way to decorate for her birthday is by creating a birthday dragon. Everyone has something to add from . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:41 AM EDT --
(No, not THE E.B. White. I have the fortune of sharing the name, or at least initials, of one of the greatest writers of all time. I've used it for good and evil purposes. When I . . .
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May 28, 2008 10:28 PM EDT --
Ed Extras
Helpful information about learning brought to you by Reading Rockets, Colorín Colorado , and LD OnLine
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June 17, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
One morning, a mysterious rabbit floats over town in a hot-air balloon, releasing thousands of balloons on the unsuspecting population below. The adults are confused and frustrated at the mess the balloons . . .
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September 07, 2007 03:21 AM EDT --
Cusi, a precocious child of the ancient Inca culture, had a strange upbringing. His guardian, an old man named Chuto, was a llama herder living in the Andes mountain range near Cuzco, Peru. At the beginning . . .
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January 18, 2008 03:52 PM EST --
Have you ever heard of the wealth of Croesus? Well it is not a myth! There was really a King of Lydia, the last one in fact, who ruled from 560 to 546 BC. He captured major Greek cities in Western Anatolia . . .
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February 01, 2008 08:10 PM EST --
Stories of Aesop and Xanthus the Philosopher
In the early 1400's, knowledge about the life of Aesop came from the research of Maximus Planudes , a monk of Constantinope, who was sent on an embassy . . .
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January 20, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
Like Socrates, and other later Greek teachers, Aesop did not write out his teachings, but gave them by word of mouth, to be copied down by his hearers. That is why no collection of fables can be definitely . . .
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January 22, 2008 02:13 AM EST --
Aesop knew what it was like to be a slave. He had once had two masters. But now
he was a free man. "One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission . . .
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June 29, 2007 11:57 AM EDT --
Little Rabbit’s best friend Harry is very special. They play in the snow, swim in the summer months and watch out for each other. Little Rabbit is always looking out for Harry’s interests, . . .
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