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	<description>Smarter kids;                                 Stronger Families</description>
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		<title>The First Story Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took the two-year-old to his first  Toddler Story Time at the library, just as I took his sister and brother before him.
It has been a while since I had a toddler, nine years to be exact. Long enough to forget that two-year-olds don&#8217;t always sit patiently through every story, rhyme, and fingerplay. In fact, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/the-first-story-time/</link>
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		<title>A Creativity Primer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a news-piece about the top passwords that people use to guard their access to their electronic accounts.
The fact that so many use PASSWORD, 123456, 654321, ABC123, not only demonstrates a disturbing  lack of concern for information security, but also a frightening lack of creativity.
While some are born with the “creativity gene,” it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/a-creativity-primer/</link>
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		<title>Putting Words to Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/332/</link>
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		<title>A Sentence A Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/a-sentence-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Hijinx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This December, we read and enjoyed a couple of Christmas books this season with a similar theme&#8211;destroying a Christmas play. Both books focus on abhorent characters who display an offensive behavior or two or three, but while this will attract your young reader&#8217;s attention, he/she will absorb the overall positive lesson behind the tale.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever&#8211;By Barbara Robinson
Though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/christmas-hijinx/</link>
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		<title>A Fifteen-Minute Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I talk about reading with my kids with other parents&#8212;-that is, either me or my husband sitting down with them to read aloud or share the reading duties&#8212;-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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/a-fifteen-minute-investment/</link>
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		<title>REVIEW: The 13 Days of Halloween</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine—celebrating thirteen days of Halloween instead of just one&#8230;As of this writing, there are precisely thirteen days remaining until All Hallows Eve, making this the perfect day to review The 13 Days of Halloween By Carol Greene, Illustrated by Tim Raglin
In this revision of the Christmas standard, The Twelve Days of Christmas, a charming ghoul showers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/review13days/</link>
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		<title>Multi-tasking Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve got lots of books going &#8212; or we are about to get them going&#8211;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/multi-task-reading/</link>
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		<title>Fall Into Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we wait for the first of the leaves to make their way to the ground, how about some seasonal reading, the kind that you can fall into to escape all the raking?  Here are my autumn favorites&#8211;Each makes creative use of language and is richly illustrated.These are books you can fall into as if they were piles of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readwritethrive.com/fall-into-books/</link>
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		<title>Writing Spark!: Walk the Plank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, started by John Baur and Mark Summers, aka Cap&#8217;n Slappy and Ol&#8217; Chumbucket aka eight years ago.
Here&#8217;s a treasure chest of ideas for pirate-themed writing:

Ask your crew to make up their own pirate names and to describe what they look like, what adventures they&#8217;ve been on, what [...]]]></description>
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