Tag: reading to children Archives · Wendy Orr
18th Aug
The comfort of bedtime stories
The saddest story I’ve ever heard about the importance of reading to your children came from someone who told me that the happiest times of her childhood were when her mother was…
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13th Aug
National Reading Hour – Would you like me to read you a story?
Australia’s National Reading Hour is fast approaching: 6 pm on Tuesday August 19: a time when we celebrate the act of reading with children. Reading is one of the most important things…
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17th Aug
From Mad Hatters to Reading Hour – sharing the love of reading
In honour of Australian Children’s Book Week, and the Reading Hour at the end of it, I thought it was time for a much delayed post on why I was so thrilled…
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1st Mar
Read Across America: from Australia to Yonkers
The teachers in a Yonkers school have extended Read Across America a little this year: I’m reading to their Grade 3 and 4 classes from my home in Australia. But since the…
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