Quick hits for this week:
- What does it mean to teach disciplinary literacy?
- Sarah from The Reading Zone walks a mile in a reluctant reader’s shoes.
- The government of Afghanistan has asked countries that donate aid to focus 80% of that funding to a list of 23 priority programs, which includes literacy programs for adults.
- Some interesting advice about supporting a bilingual child’s reading in both of their languages.
- A look at how the act of reading might change with the shift to digital.
- In the age of computers and the Web 2.0, is blogging a “door” to digital literacy?
- Has the internet made us “stupider” by teaching us to endlessly skim?
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really enjoyed the smithsonian link, tough i wish they would have gotten more in depth on the topic of books and less “text in general”
Me, too! I’m enjoying that there are more and more articles coming out exploring this topic, though. Maybe one day, we’ll get one that devotes a bit more time to “books” specifically.
What a fabulous blog! I just noticed that you linked to one of the posts on Multilingual Living – thank you! It is no surprise that reading to our children is one of the best ways to help raise them bilingually (plus it is a TON of fun)! Right now we are in week three of our Language Challenge 101 and reading is a big element of it. We chose Spanish as our challenge language. The best part of it all is reading my favorite books from childhood to my kids in Spanish. I love an excuse to read kids books (in any languages).
Warm Wishes,
Corey