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“Computers deliver an abundance of symbols yet offer an impoverishment of experience. Do our children need to see more icons, corporate logos, and glitzy fonts... or do they need more time climbing, running, and figuring out how to get along with each other?”

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Book:High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

Source: High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

“Weaned on educational games and multimedia encyclopedias, kids naturally seek out the trivial when forced to read books. While visiting a school librarian, I listened to a high school senior seek help with an assignment: "I'm writing a report about Napoleon," he said. "Can you find me a thin book with lots of pictures?”

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Book:High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

Source: High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

“Naughty? Me? I'm just a sheepdog puppy who wants to have fun.”

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Book:Naughty Nana

Source: Naughty Nana

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together" - African Proverb”

Literacy Children

Author:Walters Eric

“What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child.”

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Book:The Read-aloud Handbook

Source: The Read-aloud Handbook

“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man, reading is most sacred, For from words come dreams and from dreams come great tomorrows.”

Inspiration Literacy Children

Author:Stephen Cosgrove

“teachers are not tellers of information who "give it" to students but are coaches and facilitators who arrange conditions (personal, social, and cognitive) so that students can "get it" for themselves.”

Literacy Children

Author:Ruth Schoenback

“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child--even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and cannot sound the words properly. You must do this that the child will grow up knowing of what is great---knowing that these tenements of Williamsburg are not the whole world.”

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Author:Betty Smith

“To remember if D points left or right, think of your Dad as he squeezes you tight.”

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Book:Letter Sounds Abound

Source: Letter Sounds Abound

“Ferns with their fronds freely abound, fluffy like feathers and the /f/ sound.”

Literacy Children

Book:Letter Sounds Abound

Source: Letter Sounds Abound