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November News 2024
Thanksgiving In the United States celebrates Thanksgiving the last Thursday in November every year. In my family Thanksgiving is a big celebration as we basically have a family reunion. During our celebration, we express gratitude to all the farmers, ranchers, and...
Summer Storytelling Fun
Things to do with your children, friends, or grandchildren ... ... spend the summer gathering Family Stories of all kinds! I bet you are a storyteller and you did not even know it. Every day you share with someone something that happened to you, that is telling a...
Creative Writing Tips
My DFB Creative Writing Tool Box! Communication is Power!”™ Words Parts of Speech Punctuation Marks Writing a quality sentence is like putting a puzzle together. You know the basics, noun and verb. But if you want to paint a picture for the reader you need to include...
March Visits
Temphis, Tennesse Recently I had the opportunity to travel with my husband to Memphis, Tennesse. There were many things to do and I did but one thing I wanted to do was to find a place where more inspiration would occur and sure enough I found the spot during a visit...
Memorizing Sight Words
Reading Last month we discussed reading to your children. This month I thought I would share ideas on sight words. What is a sight word? Sight words are also referred to as high-frequency words and it means they are words that do not follow the phonics rules for...
SCBWI Conference 2019
I attend The Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Conference in New York City this March, and what a great experience it was! As I took my seat for the opening ceremony, I looked around the ballroom filled with over 800 authors and illustrators, and I...
Developing Reading Skills
Well, I never thought I would be entering this part of social media but here I am with my own blog, of which to start with I'm focusing on ideas about developing reading skills at home and at school. Enjoy ... Reading Let’s start with what is most important ......
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