Growing Book by Book turns 1 today! It has been a fun year learning about blogging and connecting with so many new people in the process. Very 1st Post My very first post was an introduction to View Post
Tips for Reading With Newborns to Age 5
Do you have little ones in your life? Would you like those kids to grow up and love to read? I believe that we can meet the needs of ALL growing readers and we can start when they are just little View Post
Mentor Texts to Use for Modeling Writing
Teaching children how to be authors is one of my all time favorite writing activities. It's a joy to see children create their own stories. Reflect and Refine: Building a Learning Community is View Post
Circle of Moms Top 25- Vote for Me!
If you enjoy this blog, please consider voting in the Circle of Moms Top 25 for me. Just click on the button above and it will take you to the voting page. Thank you! View Post
Have You Heard?
This post was originally published as a guest post I did on Playing With Words 365. Phonological awareness is the ability to hear differences in the ways words sound. Just as young children need View Post
Celebrities and Books
What do Barack Obama, Jerry Seinfeld, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peyton Manning, Madonna, Steve Martin, Jeff Foxworthy and Julie Andrews all have in common? They and many other celebrities have written a View Post
Shared Reading
Nurturing young readers involves reading with children, reading to children, and having children read on their own. Today we are going to explore reading with children which is commonly called View Post