Day 12 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is about something we all know about, we all think about, we all have stories about.  EVENING. We bumped in the poem EVENING on Day 12 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids.  The poem was written by Sappho, an Ancient Greek poet who was born around 630 BC and died around [...]

Think about these things for a minute… When we read with children and encourage reading, we promote language skills, reading skills, writing skills and speaking skills.  We help develop longer attention spans.  When we take time to focus on reading with children in our families, we strengthen family ties. Reading is one of the greatest gifts we can give to [...]

The 31 Letters Project is a magical way to excite your children about literacy. The 31 Letters Project is a month’s-worth of letters about YOU, sent to your own children (or grandchildren, nieces, nephews, special friends) through the mail.  It’s that simple on the outside.  On the inside, your letters will delight children enough for them to read and re-read… [...]

31 Letters. Sounds.  Images.  Senses.  The WORDS of YOU. Literacy is all about words.  Getting kids to read words, understand words, enjoy words, experiment with words, talk about words is the key to LITERACY. Parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles and special friends can help children embrace words in the most simple, yet magical way – with LETTERS.  The letters can [...]

LITERACY is all about WORDS – Written, Spoken, Felt. It is the most amazing and magical feeling to see and hear words that come to life in letters.  In our 31 Letters Project, your children will have the feeling each day for 31 days to live and re-live the experiences of YOUR childhood… in your own words and in your [...]

The 31 Letters Project. It’s March.  And we’re marching into March with LETTER WRITING. Grab your writing materials and get ready to give your child/children, grandchildren, niece/nephew/special friend a wonderful gift… 31 LETTERS all about YOU in your own words.  31 Letters arriving in the mail. LITERACY is all about WORDS – experimenting with words, seeing words, hearing words, knowing [...]

Take a peek at the remarkable collection of ADJECTIVES we’ve gathered during the month of February. Let’s take a couple of seconds to marvel at these ADJECTIVES and recall their meanings. These words and all words that beautifully define reading, writing, speaking and feeling are your children’s best friends. This is what LITERACY is all about. Awesome, descriptive words will [...]

We’ve Already Zipped through the entire alphabet in our search of 56 Awesomely Zestful adjectives… and here are the A – Z’s, all happy to have met you and your children: 1. agile 2. azure 3. bay 4. blithe 5. camel 6. colossal 7. drowsy 8. defiant 9. elfin 10. enormous 11. faulty 12. flawless 13. golden 14. grizzly 15. [...]

Children love words.  Children love zestful, spirited words that add size, color, description and dimension to reading, writing and speaking. Two such words can be found at the very end of the alphabet… waiting to be discovered and used: 1.  zestful – flavored, spirited, enjoyable;  full of zest, characterized by keen enjoyment. What to love about this word? zestful derives [...]

Our 56 Adjectives Literacy Project is coming to a close in a couple of days… but your children will have their 56 adjective friends forever. Ah.  Adjectives. Y the need for adjectives? Adjectives enrich our reading, writing and speaking with definition and description.  Adjectives define our images and our thoughts. In 365 Days of Literacy for Kids, I’ve alphabetically offered [...]