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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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Illuminated Manuscripts (Day of Blogs ’08 #39)

Illuminated manuscripts – the world’s first picture books!  To see some stunning images (I absolutely LOVE looking at illuminated manuscripts), please click below! Collect Britain Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum New York Public Library Flickr search results Another fascinating link is to the St. John’s Bible project.  This is a work in progress to recreate [...]

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NaNoWriMo (Day of Blogs ’08 #36)

I sooo want to participate in NaNoWriMo!  Last year I considered doing it, but I didn’t start thinking about it until the end of October, so I really didn’t have any time to prepare myself for it.  Perhaps if school and work aren’t too crazy this year I will be able to give it a [...]

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