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The Value of Reading Aloud to Children
By: Librarian Molly Technology certainly has its benefits and we here at TILT use it as a tool to help make literacy accessible to all children. We cannot and would not want to put the genie back in the bottle as far as technology goes, yet we still place great value on time honored literacy tools–namely reading aloud to children. We are reading about several current studies that point to the fact that an increasing number of children are not being read aloud to. The School
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Jan 202 min read
Can't See The Forest For The Trees
By Josefa Beyer That's me, deep in the weeds. My reading students, by contrast, are big-picture thinkers and thank goodness, because our...
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Sep 7, 20221 min read
3 Questions with Erica Scott
700 Books And Counting Erica Scott and her a daughter Amor started a book drive to collect 35 books with Black characters to give to her...
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Feb 8, 20211 min read
Building A Reading Culture
A sneak peak into how we build a reading culture... Our tutors provide explicit instruction giving students the tools to read. They also...
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Nov 30, 20201 min read
Concept of Word
Julie and this preschool student are practicing concept of word. Concept of word refers to the ability of a reader to match spoken words...
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May 1, 20191 min read
Important Lasting Gains In Literacy
This preschool student at Mt. Zion Academy LOVES books. She is "reading" this book to herself which practices a very important skill of...
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Mar 2, 20191 min read
Dialogic Reading Works
Did you know how you read to your children is as important as how often you read to them? Children who have been read to dialogically are...
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Feb 26, 20191 min read
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