Wednesday. Already. What a week!
One of the things that makes the tour so special is not just that we share a passion for reading or sharing books with kids, but that we share parts of ourselves. Yesterday, it took three posts (!) for Chris Singer to share stories from dads about the gift of reading at Book Dads. What a wonderful follow-on to Paul W. Hankins' incredibly poignant, beautiful story about a student and a book on Monday. Talk about the power of a book! Both Chris and Paul are back again today, too!
Dawn Little and her guests at the Literacy Toolbox could fill a library with all of their great suggestions (Thanks Jen) for healthy readers (thanks Dawn). Amy Mascott of Teach Mama went a step beyond and showed us how to look beyond the words and images in sharing the gift At Book Loving Boys,Trina O'Gorman helped bring us full circle with her personal story about what happens when the kids get ahead of us.
For these past two days, we've been thinking and looking at literacy through a traditional lens. But change is afoot. There is no reason to think that we can't still keep and perpetuate those special moments of our kids sitting on our lap. But we may be using various media and digital ink.
Danielle Smith and her guests at There's a Book are looking at how those tools play a role in helping us learn to read and how we, as curators, can use them, too. Are they the be-all-to-end-all? Can we completely ignore them? Here's today's lineup. As posts go live, I will be back to link them.
- From Carisa Kluver @ Digital Storytime: With iPad books that look more like toys and entertainment how likely are they to be used as tools for literacy and how does it affect the reader, children
- From Eric Van Raepenbusch @ Happy Birthday Author Blog: Using video to extend the meaning of a book beyond its pages, teach basic skills, entertain, and provide primary sources of information. Eric's post includes examples of all these ideas, plus ideas to produce your own video as a literacy activity. And that’s not all....there are links to the sources of video I have used to write my blog.
- Chris Singer @ Book Dads talks about using the Nook Color with young, beginning readers.
- Pam van Hylckama Vlieg @ Bookalicio.us follows a similar line and talks about using technology to foster a love of reading in the home.
- Holly Slotkin shares her thoughts about using apps/iPhones/iPads/Tablets/etc. @ LitLad.
- Our friend and founding Share a Story contributor Susan Stephenson does what she does best: explores online resources for reading and writing and offers suggestions on ways to engage kids with fun literacy games. Head Down Under to the Book Chook blog.
- Melissa Taylor shares a post about Reading on the Go. From r0 Comments on Share a Story Day 3: Literacy 2.0 as of 1/1/1900Add a Comment