Hot off the Google Alerts presses . . . Thanks to Rachel at Big Little Brains for pointing out the uses of Wordle for advanced readers! In case you’ve never seen wordle before, it’s a website that will take any batch of text and turn it into a very cool looking word mosaic! The more frequent the word, the larger it appears… Read More
Nintendo + Books = More Literacy?
Nintendo is a popular video game company, famous for creating popular games like Super Mario. While the first system was designed to be plugged into the TV, the Nintendo DS console is a handheld device that allows the gamer to take adventure with them wherever they go. Although this has seemingly made the old consoles obsolete, many of the older… Read More
The 10 Greatest . . . (Fill In the Blank)
In my search for those literary gems at the higher reading levels for our advanced readers, I stumbled across The 10 Greatest . . . series. These are non-fiction books, but there’s one for just about any interest your kids may have, AND they have fairly challenging reading levels. Short bursts of interesting subject matter, at reading levels that will… Read More
Flights of Fancy
I stand in constant amazement of the creativity of little minds. As I finished each chapter of my novel, I read it to my children. I could tell which characters captured their imagination, as they started to show up in the on-going narrative play in our household. My kids thought nothing of sending my characters off on wild, universe-conquering adventures that were completely unrelated to my… Read More
Ink Spells talks Savvy
RL: 6.0 CSM: 9+ Rating: PG-13 Content: Puppy love, chaste kiss, drunk adult Savvy, by Ingrid Law, is a charming tale chock-full of down-home-isms that give a feel for the Nebranska-Arkansas setting of this coming-of-age story. Mibs, a twelve year old girl about to turn thirteen and get her very own savvy, tells the story of the misadventures of her and… Read More
Community of Writers
I went to a writer’s conference this weekend, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Prairie Writer’s Conference. It was an amazing and intense day of break-out sessions and speakers and a chance to meet other writers, published and unpublished, as well as agents and editors. While writing is, by necessity, a solitary pursuit, the community of writers… Read More
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