Collecting My Thoughts

The word gap in early childhood is important. A child with a Mom who reads to her may hear a million more words than one who doesn't hav...

   In summer we spend a lot of time reading books on our porch,  then a short walk to the kitchen for a snack.  

“Recent educational philosophy has been that it doesn't matter WHAT children read as long as they DO read. I am glad I grew up and went ...

  Sounds wonderful, but as a mother who read to her children every day, and who took them to the library, and bought them books, I don...

I wonder sometimes how my mother got so smart--many happy memories of her reading to my brother and me while the three of us cuddled in a la...

  I read a lot--but more and more it's on a screen, which encourages skipping, wandering off to another topic, and the flicker is bad ...

Yes, there's a gender gap--in reading. And it is world wide, highest in Finland despite the praise for its school system. Not to worry t...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15824285-what-jefferson-read-ike-watched-and-obama-tweeted I was at Half-Price Books today and notice...

Guess what determines poverty for children? You know what I'm going to say. Marriage --or the lack of it. Look at this chart. Poverty ra...

Last night my neighbor asked me about summer selections for reading for her 15 year old grandson. He has a school suggested list with 2 book...

This was her after breakfast nap. The click on the phone awoke her, so she shifted positions to her before lunch nap. She got up long eno...

When it came out in 2008 that President George W. Bush was an avid reader--about 100 books a year, non-fiction--the left, particularly libra...

"The older I get, the fewer books I finish, and the more I read highly selectively — fast forward set on high. This is either the gett...

Now I can feel good about it. Slow Reading by John Miedema . You'll feel better about all the time you wasted in speed reading classes.

Dan Kennedy in Dumb and Dumber by Choice begins by pointing out that reading is down 20% in the last 25 years and that 40 million Americans ...

The Effort Diet Seth says that effort is more important than luck, and suggests you try his diet . . . here's a bootstrapper's/marke...

Learning to read Everyone learns differently, and if you're lucky, when you were learning to read you had phonics. Some people have a ...

The week I couldn't read Finnish is a daunting language. In Finland, you're better off to try Swedish, their second language--at l...

I know just how he feels This blogger was writing about comments that go off-topic here , "That actually validates my thesis. When you...