Reading and Literacy

Sure, haiku can be an exercise in syllable counting, but if this were the only benefit, why teach it? Here are several other positive returns from composing haiku.

I avidly recall a second grade class that would excitedly huddle around my rocking chair for story time. Students scrambled around sliding chairs to the carpet where I read heartwarming and sometimes zany tales, they reminded me that story time was counted among the most meaningful and cherished moments of a child’s day. Story time is a child’s portal into endless worlds, kingdoms, and dimensions.

“Words from other countries can be difficult to spell. Italian gave us macaroni and broccoli, as well.”

Silent letters can be tricky to grasp for young students. One way of introducing them to students is to show that those letters aren’t always silent. They can be heard in similar words. For example, the b may be silent in debt, but it’s heard in debit.

Teaching poetry to children is often considered one of the most tedious aspects of the language arts. But much of that disdain is unfounded.

For me digital literacy involves reading widely, keeping informed, knowing when and how to be critical and when to embrace new information, new ideas. I

All learning happens through connection. We make sense of new information by forging connections to something we already know. For example, early automobiles made sense to people because

Try reading the poem as a group sitting in a circle. The poem is read with each person reading one word in turn.