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	<title>PLUS IT! Family Activities for Kids: Promote Learning, Family Literacy &#124; Esther Jantzen &#187; children&#8217;s books</title>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home-6: &#8220;Books-I-Read&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s an idea to add to your literacy activities for kids: Have you ever wanted to know how many books you or your kids have read in a month or a year? Did you ever get stuck trying to think of the exact title of a book, or the author?
Since nowadays the titles and author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Literacy Day Is Nov. 1: Four Fun Activities for Kids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 1 is Family Literacy Day. Cheers! What fun family activities for kids are you planning for that day? 
It’s the Sunday after Halloween. Hmm… Are there ways to combine family literacy with Halloween?
Remember: Literacy is about more than simply decoding words, although decoding is the basic skill. Literacy is about understanding. Family literacy is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home-5: Kids&#8217; Imaginative Play, Based on Books</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gosh, Rose, age seven, loves to read! And best of all, she’s into imaginative play based on stories and books, and I know that develops reading comprehension.
Yesterday I spent part of the day with her and Calvin, who’s almost five. Rose led me into her room to show me something she’d set up in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Literacy Rich Home&#8211;3: Think Aloud When Reading Aloud</title>
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		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading aloud to children is one of the very best things a parent or care-giver can do to prepare them for success in school.  Sometimes people read aloud in a mechanical just-keep-turning-the-pages way. But you can also really PLUS a reading experience by using a technique called Think Aloud.   I&#8217;ll bet both [...]]]></description>
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