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[2] [1] Starfall arose from Blue Mountain Arts, a publishing house in Boulder, Colorado founded by Stephen Schutz. Starfall received this name because the founders believed that the name "evoked wonder and delight". [2] Stephen Schutz had trouble reading books when he was 9 years old, so he decided to help young readers by creating this website ...
In 2008–9, the Clown Conservatory's Advanced Program Ensemble spent a year developing and performing a circus adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland under the direction of Jeff Raz. The production, titled Wonderland, was developed around the performing skills of an ensemble of nine Conservatory students selected by audition. [1]
Jeff Raz is an American clown, [1] actor, teacher, and director. He founded and served as director of the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco, California , [ 2 ] the country's only remaining professional clown training program from 2000 to 2010.
The program began as a 2-year pilot project in 1966 designed to provide grants to assist schools serving "nutritionally needy" students. [3] Original legislation within the Child Nutrition Act, required schools in poor neighborhoods and areas where kids had to travel a long distance to school to be priority recipients of the program.
Typically, teachers administer the program to the students in their own classes, but in some cases, the program is administered by a central contact for the entire school. Within Scholastic, Reading Clubs is a separate unit (compared to, e.g., Education). Reading clubs are arranged by age/grade. [45]
Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for targeted at children ages 12 and under. [1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. [2] Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue [3] and launched in 2014. [4]
This is a list of television programmes that are currently being broadcast or have been broadcast on ABC Television's ABC TV (formerly ABC1), ABC Family (formerly ABC2, ABC Comedy and ABC TV Plus), ABC Kids (formerly ABC 4 Kids), ABC Entertains (formerly ABC3 and ABC ME) or ABC News (formerly ABC News 24) in Australia.
There are now a plethora of e-book sites that place children's picture books, along with LeapFrog-like sound effects and word pronunciation, completely online-often for free. Some will actually read an entire story aloud. These "virtual libraries have done a lot to both preserve books and make them more available.