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		<title>Using New Words: Fun Family Literacy Activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want a quick reminder about down-time activities for kids that can pick up the energy and create good feeling, check out the suggestions on Andrea Patten&#8217;s &#8220;What Kids Need to Succeed&#8221; blog. It&#8217;s an activity I created for the Way to Go! Family Learning Journal series—something simple and definitely not new, but something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Literacy Day Is Nov. 1: Four Fun Activities for Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 1 is Family Literacy Day. Cheers! What fun family activities for kids are you planning for that day? It’s the Sunday after Halloween. Hmm… Are there ways to combine family literacy with Halloween? Remember: Literacy is about more than simply decoding words, although decoding is the basic skill. Literacy is about understanding. Family literacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home-5: Kids&#8217; Imaginative Play, Based on Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gosh, Rose, age seven, loves to read! And best of all, she’s into imaginative play based on stories and books, and I know that develops reading comprehension. Yesterday I spent part of the day with her and Calvin, who’s almost five. Rose led me into her room to show me something she’d set up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home&#8211;4: Writing&#8211;Show Kids How to Make a List</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before kids start learning to read or write, one of the useful literacy activities you can do is to let them see you making lists: to do lists, appointment/schedule lists, grocery lists, names of people to invite lists…all kinds of lists. Then it’s especially fun to see what kind of lists they make once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home&#8211;3: Think Aloud When Reading Aloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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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>Kids in the Kitchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was with a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy in a kitchen yesterday evening. We couldn’t think of what to make for supper so we resorted to a variation of brecker—breakfast for supper. Here’s how they participated, with GREAT enthusiasm: Cleared off the table of paper scraps from a project in process—7 yr old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idea: A Toy Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned of a new-to-me idea. It’s especially great for people living in small spaces, people on a budget, people who like variety, and people who have kids that grow up fast: it’s a toy library! An Austin, TX mother writes about it in her first blog entry. Check out http://austinfrugalmom.wordpress.com for details. (This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home&#8211;2: Imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. I’m reading a book about dreams and imagination and loving what I’m learning*. There are spectacular opportunities for parents to support the intellectual and emotional growth of kids when they encourage expressions of imagination! Why haven’t I read or studied about this in depth before? It feels like I’ve missed a whole world of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home&#8211;1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(5/19/09 Note: This is a first draft of what I hope will be a longer article.) In a literacy-rich household, both WORDS and the big WORLD itself are enjoyed by everyone. Grown-ups and kids in a literacy-rich home know that life is about learning, thinking, sharing, and expanding their skills and interests. For the truth [...]]]></description>
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