This post may contain affiliate links. With virtual schooling becoming a reality for most students, more parents are choosing to homeschool their children. However, homeschool curriculums are really expensive and sometimes you don’t know what you are getting until you actually get it. Reading is a big part of any student’s life so you want to make sure you start them off on the right foot. Did you know there are apps that can teach your children to read? I mean isn’t technology so … [Read more...]
The Last of the Hunger Games Trilogy Mockingjay
From the author who first brought readers The Hunger Games, continued the story into the second novel Catching Fire, comes the final book in the trilogy. Fans will be delighted to get their hands on Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. The story wraps up the world first introduced to us as Panem, a world that came into existence after the fall of North America. If you remember the story, the evil Capitol has chosen to force a selected child to fight in their games all the way to death. When Prim is … [Read more...]
Pizza Hut Kicks Off 32nd Year of Book It!
To kick off the 32nd year of the BOOK IT! Program, Pizza Hut® unveiled its first-ever Page Turner Grant program to support individuals and organizations in local communities that share the restaurant’s commitment to literacy and reading. The BOOK IT! Program and Page Turner Grants are part of Pizza Hut: The Literacy Project, a broader commitment to literacy and reading announced earlier this fall. The goal of The Literacy Project is to impact 100 million people by enabling access to books and … [Read more...]
2 Free Kindle Books from Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! Program
The Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program is celebrating their 32nd year by offering two free Kindle books to parents of BOOK IT! readers – Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo and Maisy Goes to the Library by Lucy Cousins. An audiobook version of Mercy Watson to the Rescue is also available for download from Audible for free. Parents can access the free books by visiting bookitprogram.com/amazon. This is in partnership with Candlewick Press and Listening Library. Also, Pizza Hut is … [Read more...]
Make Reading Fun
I was recently looking through one of my teaching magazines and they had this awesome idea. You’ll hear lots of giggles with this reenactment of “Little Miss Muffet”! Attach a string to a large plastic spider. Get a stool and a plastic bowl and spoon. Then sit on the stool with the bowl and spoon and give the spider to a volunteer. Pretend to be Little Miss Muffet as you lead students in reciting the rhyme. Prompt the child to hold the spider by the string and put it near you when appropriate. … [Read more...]
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