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Children’s Literacy Initiative (Day of Blogs ’08 #42)

Won’t someone please donate to Children’s Literacy Initiative? Straight from their website, here is how CLI’s Professional Development Program works: • Developing Engaging Read Alouds Because being read to adds directly to children’s knowledge and vocabulary, experts stress the importance of reading aloud to students. At the writing center, a first-grader has word books, a [...]

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WordPress Theme Directory (Day of Blogs ’08 #33)

Had to run out to Starbucks real quick before they closed! While I don’t consider my blog to be of great literary value, there are a lot of blogs out there that are creating some truly valuable content.  Blogging is like the modern-day newspaper column, except you have no censorship and you get a live, [...]

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Are you ready to stay awake?

I participated in Blogathon 2006, but things were too crazy last summer for me to try and do it again (moving, applying for grad school, new job, new boyfriend . . .).  I decided I wanted to participate again this year, because I really did enjoy it last time.  I got all excited, I went [...]

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