Although there will be one special post next week, this is the last regular post for 2015 on By Word of Beth. With that in mind, I’d like to spend a few moments wrapping up the year, before we get ready to unwrap the new one. Over the course of the year on this blog …
This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on April 26, 2011. In reading about bullying, both in books and on the internet, I have become intrigued by the use of bibliotherapy in dealing with bullying — both for bullied and for the bully. I can see the possibility of incredible benefits both in one-to-one bibliotherapy, and …
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This was first posted on April 25, 2011. Bullying, from seemingly innocuous teasing to much more serious acts, is all too often seen by adults as “a normal part of growing up.” Nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing “normal” about bullying, and it should not be condoned in any way. Bullying, …
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This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on April 23, 2011. A friend recently recommended to me a list of picture books on the topic of bullying. Serendipitously, I encountered a chapter book/middle-grade novel on the same subject just a day or two after she’d sent me the list. Bullying is an experience that all too …
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This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on June 26, 2011. Interestingly, it received by far the most hits from search engine queries than any other post on that blog. In the over ten years (!) since I wrote this series of blog posts under the umbrella heading of “reading aloud to the elderly,” there have …
From the archives — The Fine Art of Reading Aloud, 5, Older Adults and Isolated People Read More »
This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on June 23, 2011. One of my favorite memories of sixth grade is of the half-hour or so after lunch time, when our teacher read aloud to us. For the most part, all the students were able to read for themselves, but this was different. This wasn’t work. This …
From the archives — The Fine Art of Reading Aloud, 4, Older Kids Read More »
This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on June 13, 2011. From picture books we move into the exciting, vast realm of chapter books with our emerging readers. This post continues my series about reading aloud to emerging readers. As I have done in previous posts, I want to recommend not just the listing of suggested …
This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on June 8, 2011. As I said in my initial post on reading aloud to emerging readers, not only should being read aloud to still be an important part of an emerging reader’s life, but there is definitely still a place for picture books in the reading choices for …