Michelle Carranza

#1
" You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, her will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

-Clay P. Bedford
#2

Reading aloud to children is vital because it helps them acquire the information and skills they need in life:

• Knowledge of printed letters and words, and the relationship between sound and print.
• The meaning of words.
• How books work, and a variety of writing styles.
• The world in which they live.
• The difference between written language and everyday conversation.
• The pleasure of reading.

Reading to young children promotes language acquisition and literacy development and, later on, achievement in reading comprehension and overall success in school.

#3

Interesting reading facts website:

http://visual.ly/interesting-facts-about-reading

#4 Interesting facts about dyslexia. 

http://athome.readinghorizons.com/community/blog/50-interesting-facts-about-dyslexia/

One out of every eight letters you read is an 'e'

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”   - Katherine Patterson

Did you know?

Early books didn't have titles or authors or anything printed on the covers?
Books used to be shelved "backwards" with the spine facing the back of the shelf and the fore-edge facing out?
Books used to be chained to the bookshelves in libraries?
Books were sold unbound in quires (gatherings of printed sheets or signatures). If you wanted a bound book you had to buy the quires from the publisher and take them to your favorite bookbinder for binding in your choice of material.
There are over 50,000 books published each year in the US alone?

Which writer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times?

Interesting Facts About Famous Writers


Robert Frost. Robert Frost, poet, was the favored writer of President John F. Kennedy. He participated in his 1961 inaugeration by reciting two of his poems. By the time Robert Frost died in 1963, he was the unofficial poet laureate of the USA.


The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."


"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.