Read. Write. Thrive!

My first grade teacher, Miss Mary Bodi, spent a lot of time bringing out the writer in  her students. Regularly throughout the year, she asked us to choose a picture from a file. In it were magazine advertisements, clipped comics, and other images she’d collected.
One-by-one, were called to sit next to her at a table [...]

If your writers-in-training resist sitting for a fifteen-minute jounal entry or other writing exercise, you might have some success weaning them into writing “a sentence a day.” 
 This can be done on a computer, or handwritten in a notebook. I prefer the latter, since flipping to the story will maintain the quick and easy nature of [...]

When I talk about reading with my kids with other parents—-that is, either me or my husband sitting down with them to read aloud or share the reading duties—-I hear these responses like these: “I wish I could find the time to do that,” or “we’re just too busy to read.”
I understand completely. Between work, [...]

We’ve got lots of books going — or we are about to get them going–at our house. Nothing escapes the necessity of multi-tasking in our wacky world, does it? Not even the relaxing practice of reading.
I can only imagine that Logan, our 5th grader, must have picked up the habit from me. I always [...]

Want to see what a difference 30-minutes of reading each day can make in your child’s life?
Check out the Feed Me A Story page at the America Reads website.

A few days ago, our ten-year-old reader began reading

Welcome to my blogazine, Read. Write. Thrive!
I started this site to share my family’s experiences with reading and writing, two activities that are necessary for academic and life success.
While the importance of reading is emphasized and encouraged in our schools, writing is not yet given its due. This is not to say that there haven’t [...]