LeVar Burton gave an interview on NPR yesterday about his thoughts on the end of Reading Rainbow, which I posted about a few weeks ago here. Burton, who speaks a bit at first about his years with Star Trek: The Next Generation and about how science fiction was his first reading love, says about [...]
PBS’s Reading Rainbow, hosted by LeVar Burton is going off the air after 26 years. Apparently, the higher-ups think we need to teach kids about phonics and forget about getting them to *want* to read. IMO, nothing makes a child, or an adult, learn something faster than the desire to do so. [...]
Sharing this great post from PBS’s Booklights. The question asked was, what book do you wish you could read for the first time, all over again? Since Booklights is a site for education and parents, many of the answers are children’s or young adult books.
Me? It’s hard to pick, of course. I’d be [...]
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