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Literature and Learning Differences ~ Written by Shawna Wingert of Not the Former Things For years, I have felt like a read aloud failure. I love books. I worked in the library all through college, and spend far too much money buying books on Amazon because they will deliver them to my door in …
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How to Read Aloud Every Day ~ Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. I'm convinced that the minutes and hours I spend reading to my children are the best invested moments of my entire life. With six kids underfoot to love on and teach, I fight a constant feeling that I’m not …
This post contains affiliate links. Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom The love of good books flows steadily through my bloodstream--always has. I have to admit, though, that I tend to stick to the tried-and-true classics, titles that have …
Written by contributor Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things When my oldest children were small, I couldn’t wait until we could read middle grade novels together. I enjoyed reading picture books with them, of course, but it had been Beverly Cleary and Roald Dahl who had sparked my own …
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The following is a guest post by Laura Thomas of This Eternal Moment. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. –Haruki Murakami I have a confession to make -- I did not grow up reading classical literature. While I have …
