Children's Biographies

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Literacy Link!

Health News—A minute a day can improve reading skills

LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 15 (UPI) -- Parents need only spend one minute a day to help their children improve their literacy skills, a U.S. literacy advocate says.

Sharon Darling of the National Center for Family Literacy says it only takes a minute to sing short songs like "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Then leave off the last word each time until there are no words left.

Darling suggests other ways to build literacy skills. READ ON!

Resolve to Read in 2009

Parents that read influence children to read. Why not resolve in 2009 to make a family outing each week (or a couple times a month) to your public library. Did you know your library is an endless resource of fun … and FREE … literacy programs for adults and children? Find out about your public library and its benefits. Your child will love to get his/her first library card this year!

See our extended Special Offer below for a fun way to keep your child reading next year!

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Inspired through History

Who … or what … will be your child’s source of inspiration this coming year? What will he or she aspire to do? The positive and negative catalysts that influence today’s children are too numerous to decipher. However, it is the role of the parents and educators to introduce positive sources of influence. A look through our American history provides some amazing accomplishments of our heroes and heroines.

"The Story of Phillis Wheatley is particularly inspirational . . . young readers will be fascinated by Young Patriots like the gifted Phillis Wheatley, her self-doubts, and her ultimate triumph over circumstances that would defeat most people."
-- ForeWord Magazine, review

Young readers will aspire to pursue his or her own creative dreams with Phillis Wheatley’s accomplishments as a guide.

Beyond the Book . . .
Activities for Kids, Parents and Teachers
Phillis Wheatley

Volume 10 of the Young Patriots Series
– Phillis Wheatley, Young Revolutionary Poet –
depicts the dramatic girlhood adventures of the woman
who would become the first notable, female
African-American writer to publish a book.

In celebration of Phillis’s first published poem this December, here is a classroom activity from the Phillis Wheatley, Young Revolutionary Poet Teacher’s Guide:

Students can see a photograph of Phillis’s published book online. Phillis’s credit on the title page and circling the portrait is especially interesting. It reads: “Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.”

Find the complete Teacher’s Guide and Webquest here.

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