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	<title>PLUS IT! Family Activities for Kids: Promote Learning, Family Literacy &#124; Esther Jantzen &#187; Books &amp; Movies</title>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home-6: &#8220;Books-I-Read&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s an idea to add to your literacy activities for kids: Have you ever wanted to know how many books you or your kids have read in a month or a year? Did you ever get stuck trying to think of the exact title of a book, or the author? Since nowadays the titles and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home&#8211;3: Think Aloud When Reading Aloud</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading aloud to children is one of the very best things a parent or care-giver can do to prepare them for success in school. Sometimes people read aloud in a mechanical just-keep-turning-the-pages way. But you can also really PLUS a reading experience by using a technique called Think Aloud. I&#8217;ll bet both you and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Business Is Booming!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that may be a bit of exaggeration. However, Plus It! received wonderful publicity this week. The book is featured in the LA Parent magazine’s Education Directory for July 2009. The editors reprinted much of the first chapter in a two-page spread, and put a small picture of the book in the corner. I’m thrilled! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mary Poppins Left</title>
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		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I sat on the couch with Rose (age 7) and Calvin (age 4), watching them watch Mary Poppins for the first time. They knew the songs, of course, from “Dad’s computer” and sang along loudly with Mary and Burt. But Mary Poppins is set in 1910 in imperial England. How does one [...]]]></description>
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