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Fantastic Books
There is a wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated book entitled Hurry Scurry Worry by Brooke Davis that my niece absolutely loves. What I like about this author is that she has even put a free flash game on her website that teaches kids the alphabet. http://www.kittenpuppypress.com/free_flash.html Hurry Scurry Worry relates to children ...
Posted to Family by mwhitlatch on July 25, 2008
The Prolem with the Article
Erica S. Perl, did a stack of comics fall on you as a small child? Why the arrogance in this article? Comics, as have been alluded to many times by other posters, have started many great readers. They have built a multitude of stupendous vocabularies. Yes, I am trying to show mine off. Getting down to brass tacks, the attitude presented ...
Posted to Family by danhenneke on July 24, 2008
If Bollywood Can Do Literacy, Why Not Hollywood
Why shouldn't Hollywood teach our kids to read? Someone might as well do it! India has a very interesting twist on this, with Brij Kothari's brilliant same language subtitling. It started as an adult literacy project called Desi Lassi: since nearly everyone knows the lyrics to the Bollywood movie songs, Brij applied same-language subtitling to ...
Posted to Family by mbjesq on July 22, 2008