Here’s some great news! There are over 1,000 new titles available, with support for pop-up text and highlighting the artwork in individual panels. Ana and I were just talking at lunch today about how toContinue reading
Category: In The News
Some Programming Notes
Some of you may have noticed the pace of new posts has slowed (even more) over the past couple of months. We’re very happy to tell you that the reason is that Ana is inContinue reading
Newest Carnival of Homeschooling Is Up!
Thanks to Christine at Our Curious Home for hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling and including us! There are so many good articles in this week’s edition, and these are some of our favorites soContinue reading
Cutting Back on Screen Time
From today’s Tennessean, Dr. Frank Boehm calls for replacing t.v. time with book time: If we began to encourage our children to replace screen time with reading books, they would be more able to counter ignoranceContinue reading
Celebrate The Freedom To Read What We Want
It’s that time of year again…the time to celebrate Banned Book Week. Held every year on the last week of September, BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or to create books that may sometimes beContinue reading
Start Your Kid’s Day With Cheerios and a Free Book!
They’re at it again…Cheerios will be giving away free books this fall for their Spoonful of Stories Program! If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a program that works to donate books to kids whoContinue reading
Literacy On the Web
One of the issues we’re already concerned about is setting a good reading example for our kids. We feel like it’s important to not only read to them, but for them to see us readingContinue reading
Reading Phailure?
USA Today has a pretty scathing criticism of Reading First in its editorial section. The crux of the argument is that the system has been duped by textbook publishers into wasting a lot of moneyContinue reading
COH Issue For June 10
The Carnival of Homeschooling is up–thanks to The Common Room for hosting! Just a few of the interesting posts that caught our eye here at RCO: Hands on ABC Order — some activities you canContinue reading
Age Guidance For Children’s Books…No Thanks!
That’s what Philip Pullman and over 80 other authors, illustrators, librarians, and booksellers are saying in their petition against the proposed age banding for children’s books by leading publishers. This proposal looks to add suggestedContinue reading
Where Does Literacy Begin?
Well, according to Esther A. Jantzen’s article in the LA Times, literacy begins at home, and I couldn’t agree more. She had this to say about the study which found that Bush’s Reading First programContinue reading
Kids Prefer To Read Classics
According to a Washington Post survey, kids still prefer to read the classics when given the choice. Children have welcomed the Harry Potter books in recent years like free ice cream in the cafeteria, butContinue reading
‘Reading First’ Not Working…Why Not?
The Reading First initiative is a federally funded program that aims to raise student performance by improving reading comprehension (as measured by state tests). The program has very strict guidelines that states and districts mustContinue reading
We Love Free and We Love Spanish
I love it when big companies reach out to help communities and make resources available for free! To honor El Dia de Los Niños – a Latin holiday that celebrates children as the center ofContinue reading
