by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 29, 2014
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 28, 2014
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 24, 2014
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 23, 2014
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 21, 2014
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 17, 2014
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January 16, 2014
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 14, 2014
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January 10, 2014
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
December 20, 2013
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
December 18, 2013
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
December 10, 2013
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
December 06, 2013
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
December 03, 2013
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
November 30, 2013
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
November 27, 2013
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
September 30, 2009
No matter the age, serve 'em language desserts, and kids always want more!
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
September 12, 2009
I left that first family literacy home visit filled with questions. Had I sown any seeds there? Would that book-sharing prompt more reading and interacting with print in Suzanna’s home? Would Suzanna and her family ask to adopt another lonely book from our classroom?
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
August 25, 2009
So what do you do to help your child be the powerful talker who’s leading the pack in a positive direction? It’s really quite simple.
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
July 18, 2009
Long ago, I found that serving desserts to kids works every time. Even when those desserts are of the word and poem and story and book ilk. Those desserts quickly move kids into an “I wanna read!” mode.
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
July 13, 2009
Why I tell kids about my work as a stripper to teach a bit of phonics and a prefix...and to share all my ins and outs of writing.
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
July 08, 2009
She did it. She did it, I think, because I’d asked. And I think she did it because she recognized that she had, in fact, been doing something really important for her child now and for his future.
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
July 07, 2009
What kind of shy is it when a child acts on a stated expectation of the parent or caregiver? If one throws out the label, shy, does it then become a habit for the adult...and child? Ah! Awareness...and a tip to build child's self-confidence!
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
July 03, 2009
Learning to hear word parts, separate those parts, and then put them back together is an all-important reading-readiness skill. Yep, it’s one of the skills that helps children make sense of phonics in order to learn to read.
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