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You can read more about Bob and his wife Wanda, who were married for 55 years and delivered papers together every morning, in last week's column by Kitsap Sun Editor David Nelson. Bob enjoyed ...
$2.99 at amazon.com. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia are a classic of children's literature for a reason, but particularly fitting for our winter books reading list ...
The Extensive Reading Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable organization whose purpose is to support and promote extensive reading. One of its initiatives is the annual Language Learner Literature Award for the best new works in English. Another is maintaining a bibliography of research on extensive reading.
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.
Children read, certainly, but the books that they probably enjoyed reading (or hearing) most, were not designed especially for them. Fables were available, and fairy stories, lengthy chivalric romances , and short, affordable pamphlet tales and ballads called chapbooks , but these were published for children and adults alike.
We read Jorge Luis Borges and other great writers, and I’m grateful for that exposure. It wasn’t until later that I discovered Chicago writers like Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, who felt ...
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...
The BBC started the Big Read with the goal of finding the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS, and telephone. The show attracted controversy for adopting an allegedly sensationalist approach to literature , but supporters praised it for raising the public awareness of reading. [ 5 ]