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• Back to the Third Grade for This 71-Year-Old

  He stands more than a head taller than his classmates, but what really makes Alferd Williams stand out as a member of the third grade at Edison Elementary School is his age. He's seventy-one. The son of a sharecropper, Williams headed to elementary school two years ago when he was sixty-eight. He started back in first grade, the last grade he attended before dropping out as a child in Missouri to help his family make a living. Read More... Posted Mar 22 2009, 12:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: education, school, books, reading, schools, literacy, Jeanne Sager, summer school, learning to read

• How Do You Spell 'Burberry'?

  It’s so much fun to hear language be manhandled by kids who are highly verbal but still preliterate. Their untrained ears find hilarious and creative sounds in words that we adults have memorized too well to really hear anymore. When I was little, I used to think that the word “reconnoiter” was actually a phrase: wreck and order. Read More... Posted Feb 11 2009, 06:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: toddlers, babble talk, burberry, teddy bear, learning to read, kids say the cutest things, learning to talk, misunderstandings

• Learning to Read through Video Games

  Increasingly, books for children and young adults are being released with related video games. Since 97 percent of children ages 12 to 17 play computer and video games, this seems like a surefire to draw at least some reluctant readers into books. But when libraries host gaming tournaments and elementary schools incorporate video games into English lessons, you have to wonder, “Is this still reading?” Read More... Posted Oct 06 2008, 06:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: gaming, online games, video games, tv, computers, children's books, books, young adult literature, schools, roald dahl, libraries, digital media, novels, banned books week, pj haarsma, getting kids to read, print media, young adult, reluctant readers, computer skills, future of reading, preteen, televisions, learning to read