How to add a fun daily dose of Reading with 365 Days of Literacy for Kids! Last year, on January 1, 2011, I began a daily series that I named 365 Days of Literacy for Kids! As a retired *Reading & English Teacher and Grandmother of 9 young children, I felt I still had it in me to plan, organize [...]

Get ready for “READ-IT-AGAIN!” during DECEMBER on 365 Days of Literacy for Kids! Reading aloud to your kids & grandkids is a wonderful and proven way to improve vocabulary and increase reading comprehension and thinking skills by connecting directly with a book… its words, its story, its message, its magic.  The more books in early childhood, the greater the chances [...]

  WORD POWER SHOWER OF THE DAY: fritinancy My favorite high school English teacher recited this Emily Dickinson poem to my class nearly every day: A word is dead by Emily Dickinson A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. This poem has stayed with me all these decades [...]

Today’s APRIL SHOWER WORD POWER – eye rhyme Here are a couple of little WORD questions for your kids: Do the words daughter and laughter rhyme? How about love and move?  Or said and maid?  OK.  Here are a couple more: come and home?  gather and father?  doll and roll?  rain and again? The answers, of course, are NO.  These [...]

Literacy begins with WORDS. Literacy is enhanced with WORD KNOWLEDGE. Word knowledge brings great confidence in reading, writing and speaking. Getting kids interested in knowing WORDS is a key to learning.  Join in the fun of acquiring new, interesting or intriguing words during April with APRIL SHOWERS bring WORD POWERS! Today’s WORD, on Day 95 of 365 Days of Literacy [...]

SHOWER your kids with awesome WORDS during the month of APRIL here on 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able. Join in the fun of discovering interesting, intriguing and sometimes even rarely used WORDS. Today, on Day 94, let’s rediscover the rarely used word crinigerous. crinigerous is an adjective meaning hairy or bearing hair, pronounced [...]

Visit 365 Days of Literacy for Kids each day in April and SHOWER your kids with interesting words! Here’s a little question for you on Day 93 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids:  What word is made plural by adding the letter X? Hmmmmmm.  Thinking.  Thinking. Answer:  The word beau, a noun meaning a boyfriend or male admirer, or [...]

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers is a lovely quote by 16th century English poet and farmer Thomas Tusser, who wrote the instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Tusser’s poem is a witty, lively and entertaining poem about gardening… and many, many of his quotes are still used today. We’re going to borrow Thomas Tusser’s April thought, [...]

Day 31. Our LAST DAY of our 31 Letters Literacy Project! Can you believe that March is marching out?  Hopefully, you were able to capture a topic each day and write a letter to your children, grandchildren or special children in your life.  The good news is that you can do this any time. 1 letter.  5 letters.  20 letters.  [...]

Day 30 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is about FATHERS. This letter topic is inspired by one of my favorite poems, My Father by Yehuda Amichai: MY FATHER by Yehuda Amichai The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out [...]