Reading Time: 7 minutes Literacy Games, Images: Green Board Game Company, The Creativity Hub, Bananagrams Back in April, I shared 5 games and activities that can help with math skills and homework. Today I’m bringing you 4 more games and activities for your family, this time focusing on literacy games which will help with language […]
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Reading comics is all about the fun. And fun increases reading skills.
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The single most thrill-inducing milestone I’ve watched my children hit in the past ten years was not their first teeth or their first steps. It wasn’t even the first day of school or the day we bid goodbye to diapers, although that was awesome. No, the moments that made me most giddy were when they learned to read.
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My husband and I have this little trick we play on our children.
Every night, we try to get our three children in bed as close to 7:00 pm as possible. Our rule is that they need to stay in their rooms quietly and lights must be off. Oh, unless they feel like using this.
Are you scratching your head over there?
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The more kids are able to incorporate words, images, sounds, and any other information presented, the more prepared they will be for their brave, new world that doesn’t include Walkmans.
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I’ve been thrilled with the Scholastic and Energizer “Power Up and Read” program for the summer, running from May 4th – September 4th, 2015.
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Science literacy is important, fun, and doable!
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Celebrate the magic of Harry Potter with fans worldwide on February 5, 2015!
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GeekDad welcomes today’s new sponsor, the free online storytelling service Cooberry.
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If you think librarians are all prim women, shushing loud children, you need to visit your local library and update your thinking. Librarians are the gateway to knowledge, defenders of freedom, and more!
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What’s a great way to bring science into your family life? Attend a talk by your local, friendly scientists!
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This Saturday, December 7th, is the fourth annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day.
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Star Wars Reads Day strikes back this year on Saturday, October 5.
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Creating a free library for our neighborhood has been a surprising treasure for our family as well.
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Don’t miss this awesome resource about the many benefits of comics for building literacy skills!
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Last year my son started at our local pre-school and ever since his appetite for knowledge has simply grown and grown. Every day he points out letters, number, and shapes around our home or on the street and asks what they are. He’s even asked for phonics books as his bedtime story. It’s something I want to encourage and so when Wombi released a new series of three Monster apps that teach letters, shapes, and numbers I was eager to see what he would make of them.
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If you lose yourself in a story, or solve problems through reading, you may wish like I do to pass along that gift to others. Tuesday, April 23, is the second annual World Book Night, an event when volunteers give away specially produced editions of from a list of paperback novels or memoirs to disadvantaged or struggling adult readers.
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Cort Lane, producer of the Ultimate Spider-Man show, talks about what viewers can expect in the new season that starts this Monday and about Marvel’s new program to improve literacy through comics.
Continue ReadingSitting down to read a stack of picture books is one of life’s little pleasures. Especially when those books are an ever-changing delight thanks to our friendly local library. Each read-through is a journey of imagination and learning. But if your kids are anything like mine, they regularly pick up on inconsistent text and […]
Continue ReadingBack in April, we told you about fantasy author James A. Owen’s ebook, Drawing Out the Dragons; Owen has recently launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds for a print edition. Owen explains that although the ebook (available in PDF …
Continue ReadingFor the last few years, James A. Owen has been turning out volumes of his fantasy series, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, beginning with Here, There Be Dragons in 2006 and following up with Search for the Red Dragon, …
Continue ReadingChildren’s inner lives may not seem all that complicated. But they are, even if kids may not fully be fully aware of the complexities they’re dealing with until they’re much older. That’s one reason it’s hard for them to talk …
Continue ReadingIncreasingly, those who are interested in how mobile technology is being used to raise and educate our geeklets are telling us that if we just use these Android, iOS or other smart mobile tools in ways that simply mimic analogue …
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I was quickly cruising through my email inbox on Friday morning, making sure there wasn’t something urgent needing my attention, when I came across a link to a New York Times article about how picture books are losing popularity. The subject matter stopped me in my tracks. I skimmed through the article, tagging it for […]
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