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		<title>The New Blogger on the Block</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/the-new-blogger-on-the-block/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am turning my blog temporarily over to a guest blogger. Before I do, I want to remind everyone that writing is reading. The act of writing and revising requires reading and thinking. What a great way to grow your literacy! Blogging can be one way to allow kids to practice their literacy, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=1033&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pass the grammar and vocabulary please.</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/pass-the-grammar-and-vocabulary-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought all the reasons to read were on the table, here come some more! The feast of reading includes acquiring grammar, vocabulary and strong writing skills. As a matter of fact, according to decades of research, we gain the majority of our vocabulary knowledge and grammar skills through the act of reading [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=1027&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Resolutions?</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/reading-resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core State Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core State Standards Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early literacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider a reading resolution for this year! I might suggest to you to make reading nonfiction to/with your children a priority. By nonfiction here I mean an informational text that might be on a specific topic such as dinosaurs, pets, Mexico (the list is endless). Chances are teachers in your child&#8217;s school have shifted to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=1015&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Got Fluency?</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/got-fluency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early fluency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading scores]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone get a fluency reading score coming home from school for their school-age child recently? You may have recently received a report that gives a single number which represents the number of words your child read in one minute. Anyone wondering why we are timing our students to see how many words they can read [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=1007&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power of Pictures</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/power-of-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early readers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading comprehension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading strategies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently co-teaching in a middle school classroom where the teacher reminded his students that looking at pictures is not a bad thing. I thought it very insightful of him to anticipate that his students might feel this way. They may think that lingering over pictures is babyish or considered “cheating” because it is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=974&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Reading and Writing Positive</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/keep-reading-and-writing-positive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/?p=972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever said anything remotely like this, “If you continue to do &#8212;&#8211;, then you will have to go read in your room.” As a classroom teacher who wants to make learning an enjoyable experience, I pledged long ago to never put the words “have to” in front of “reading” or “writing”. Don’t create [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=972&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are YOU reading this summer???</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/what-are-you-reading-this-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[school-age book clubs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[summer book clubs for kids]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ahhh, summer vacation is here and my good friend and neighbor suggested something brilliantly simple (which are my favorite kind of brilliant ideas). She is reading every morning during summer break with her daughter for 30 minutes. They each read what they like but they do it together. She calls it a reading club. She [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=966&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peanut Butter and Jelly</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/peanut-butter-and-jelly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading and writing go together like peanut butter and jelly. They complement each other and make the other stronger.  Teachers who use best practice in their classrooms know this and incorporate writing daily with their reading instruction. Consider yourself. When you read something and put it down it is often the end of it. If [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=954&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Do You Notice?</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/what-do-you-notice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is an engaging question that I am going to start using more in my classroom instruction. Brilliantly simple and so powerful! I recently read a blog posted on the importance of this question to preclude ‘What are you wondering?’ because naturally we have to notice something before we may wonder about it. The minute [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=950&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 4 Things You Should Know When Reading to a Toddler</title>
		<link>https://betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/top-4-things-you-should-know-when-reading-to-a-toddler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Be There Creator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Have Repetition and Be Predictable: Do you remember how smart you felt, as a kid, when you figured out what was going to happen next in a story? With toddlers, it’s important to include books that contain repetitions, as they mature, add predictable and rhyming books. Read stories again and again. Your toddler enjoys repetition and it helps [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17212066&#038;post=944&#038;subd=betherebedtimestories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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