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Booklist: Reading Around the World

World Tour Booklist: Reading Around the World How is your summer going? Any travel? At Scintilla.info, we dream of travel but most of our road trips involve visiting our three grandchildren–not that we mind doing that at all! But we do travel in our reading, and we’ve reviewed some books that take us to real […]

August 5, 2019By scintilla.admin Resources #Booklists, #ReadingAroundTheWorld, #resourcesLeave a Comment

Booklist: 10 Books for a Reading Roadtrip Across America

Booklist: 10 Books for a Reading Roadtrip Across America Scintilla.info has been proudly international from the beginning, intentionally seeking books and authors from around the world. But we are based in the United States. Given that our country celebrates her birthday on July 4th, we decided to highlight some books that we have reviewed […]

July 1, 2019By scintilla.admin Resources #America, #AmericanAuthors, #AmericanThemes, #booklist, #Booklists, #fiction, #Nonfiction, #resources, #RoadTripLeave a Comment

Book List: Astronaut Books for Shared Reading with Children

Book List: Astronaut Books for Shared Reading with Children Growing-up to be an actual astronaut is a daunting and competitive career path considering how many astronauts there really are in the world. So why is it that so many children have dreams of working or living in space? Perhaps it is the adventure that challenges […]

May 30, 2018By scintilla.admin Shared Reading #BookExtentions, #Booklists, #ChapterBooks, #elementary, #fiction, #InteractiveReading, #Nonfiction, #PictureBooks, #preschool, #SharedReadingLeave a Comment

Booklist: Books with Poems & Rhymes for Shared Reading with Children

Booklist: Books with Poems & Rhymes for Shared Reading with Children Use poetry and song lyrics to introduce your child to the interesting sounds in language. Explore poetry pieces and nursery rhymes with alliteration, rhyming couplets, and onomatopoeia. For older children who enjoy structure, patterns, and math try sonnets with iambic pentameter and haikus. […]

May 15, 2018By scintilla.admin Poetry, Shared Reading #BookExtentions, #Booklists, #elementary, #InteractiveReading, #PictureBooks, #poems, #poetry, #preschool, #rhymes, #SharedReadingLeave a Comment

Booklist: Books about Libraries for Shared Reading with Children

Booklist: Books about Libraries for Shared Reading with Children Our boys grew up loving libraries. On son #2’s 10th birthday, by his choice, we did the two things he loved most in the world – eat at the local Chinese restaurant and then visit the library. He had a special seat by the window […]

April 9, 2018By scintilla.admin Shared Reading #BookExtentions, #Booklists, #ChapterBooks, #elementary, #fiction, #InteractiveReading, #libraries, #library, #NationalLibraryWeek, #Nonfiction, #PictureBooks, #preschool, #SharedReadingLeave a Comment

Booklist: If You Like Peter Rabbit… Bunny Books for Shared Reading with Children

If You Like Peter Rabbit… Booklist: Bunny Books for Shared Reading with Children When I first heard of the 2018 live action movie of Peter Rabbit, I must admit to being worried, because I adore Beatrix Potter’s detailed and delightful watercolor illustrations. Peter Rabbit, himself is also an irrepressible trickster with that balance of naughty and […]

April 5, 2018By scintilla.admin Shared Reading #BookExtentions, #booklist, #Booklists, #BunnyBooks, #ChapterBooks, #elementary, #fiction, #InteractiveReading, #Nonfiction, #PictureBooks, #preschool, #SharedReadingLeave a Comment

Booklist: Worms on the Sidewalk, Books for Shared Reading

Booklist: Worms on the Sidewalk, Books for Shared Reading Ground Hog Day’s Punxsutawney Phil may get the notoriety for heralding the onset of spring, but to me the surest sign of spring is worms on the sidewalk. My mother is a gardener, so I grew up respecting worms and using gardening gloves to move them […]

April 2, 2018By scintilla.admin Shared Reading #BookExtentions, #Booklists, #ChapterBooks, #children, #elementary, #fiction, #InteractiveReading, #Nonfiction, #PictureBooks, #preschool, #SharedReading, #wormsLeave a Comment

Booklist: LOL Books to Laugh Out Loud with Your Children

Booklist: LOL Books to Laugh Out Loud with Your Children The day before I went to see the grandgirls, I was in the bookstore and saw a picture book with a funny cover that was on sale. Of course, I just had to buy it! It was one of the best things I have ever […]

April 1, 2018By scintilla.admin Shared Reading #BoardBooks, #BookExtentions, #Booklists, #ChapterBooks, #children, #elementary, #fiction, #infants, #InteractiveReading, #LOL, #PictureBooks, #ReadAlouds, #SharedReadingLeave a Comment