Reading and Literacy Tweets 9/19/12

https://www.facebook.com/fdnforearlylearning

 "So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, please go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookcase on the wall." Happy birthday Roald Dahl! In your honor, re-purposed spice racks!

https://www.facebook.com/fdnforearlylearning

Maybe now we might say computer time out.

 

1. Sound It Out  Assessing and learning the letters of the alphabet

http://www.readingrockets.org/blog/53818/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia 

2. New exams discriminate against dyslexics

https://www.senmagazine.co.uk/news/1053-new-english-baccalaureate-certificate-will-discriminate-against-dyslexics-says-charity.html 

3. Invest In Adult Literacy: Low Adult Literacy as a Public Health Issue

http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/event/invest-in-adult-literacy-low-adult-literacy-as-a-public-health-issue 

 Mind/Shift, I love you. You are so fascinating.

4. Survey: Parents Prefer Reading Print Books to Young Kids

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/survey-for-young-kids-parents-prefer-reading-print-books/ 

Print books are 3 dimensional and they smell good, too.