Friday Finds: Next In Learning

For the debut of our new Friday Find feature, we have selected NextInLearning.com, a blog by the people at Wizz-e.com, the award winning publisher of interactive eBooks for children. I learned of the NextInLearning.com blog when a Twitter post by Jeanette McLeod, one of the publishers at Wizz-e, caught my eye: Children who blog, text, use social networking websites more confident writers: National Literacy Trust...

Friday Finds: Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories

As parents, we’re always looking for ways to help our children develop those crucial literacy skills that they need to be successful in life. Cheerios would like to help us work toward that goal with their Spoonfuls of Stories program. I first learned of the Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories program on their Facebook page “where reading, nutrition and you come together.” I clicked on over to the...

Friday Finds: Top 100 Children’s Novels

I’ve always loved school librarians. How much? When I was in eighth grade, I chose “library helper” over art class as my elective so I could spend more time in the school library with the librarian. (Okay, I also loved having first dibs on the new book arrivals while they were still in pristine condition before anyone else got their grimy hands on them.) Therefore it should come as no big surprise...