While this year's Festival may be cancelled, you can still support our Authors & Illustrators as well as our retail partner, @SecondStarBooks, by ordering their titles via @Bookshop_Org
Order online for delivery at: https://t.co/zm9tjCrYXm
We're pleased to announce that the third annual Children's Festival of Stories will be held at McAuliffe International School @DPSNewsNow)!
Mark your calendars for April 25th and keep your eyes peeled for authors soon...
"All of us obviously want to help our students become better writers. But are there ways we can "double-dip," too—in other words, help them improve their writing AND also use writing instruction to improve reading skills?" https://t.co/BXn1mMp2jv
Calling all authors and illustrators! Submissions for the 2020 Festival of Stories are open until November 15th!
Submit now at https://t.co/zu8oq2JDLf
@diversebooks@scbwi
No one is born a reader, but from birth everyone is learning the sounds, words, and meanings that will lay a foundation for a lifetime of #literacy.
How to foster it... https://t.co/3fQL7Bi04L
"Research shows that children become the strongest readers when they learn to sound out words and slowly build a knowledge base of words they have memorized. But many students are taught by guessing based on pictures...or other contextual clues." #literacy
https://t.co/z11rq1p4Rt
"You've had people support accountability measures for students and teachers, but not necessarily be willing to think about and look at these larger structural factors that are actually impacting what's happening in the classroom." #literacy https://t.co/zhQOKZ6B31
"Compared to reading, writing is more active, encouraging students to be independent thinkers, take ownership over their own stories and ideas and communicate them clearly to others." #kidlit
https://t.co/7TnrgIqYkr
“What we’re showing is that meaning matters. Children take the meaning of the objects that they are seeing into account when they learn new words.”
https://t.co/sjvSa4BErY