News & Links to Articles

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• Language heard in pre-school is linked to later reading article: http://www.eyeonearlyeducation.org/2011/11/01/language-heard-in-preschool-linked-to-later-reading/
• April is poetry month. Here are some sites for poetry: http:www.readinga-z.com/books/poetry-books
• Article to read: Pre-schooler's language skills improve when placed with more skilled peers.  http://www.researchnews.osu.edu/archive/preklang.htm

 Celebrate Marc Brown's by reading his wonderful books. He wrote the Arthur series as well as illustrated Wild About Books, Born to Read and many others.
.  www.pbs.org/parents/arthur/index.html/
.  http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/brown/
There is a list of books here as well as an interview with Marc Brown

.  Storytime, debunked is an opinion piece from the 1/1/12 New York Times.
http:www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/scientific-answers-to-the-mysteries-of-childrens-literature.html