“…the single activity that consistently correlates with high levels of performance on standardized tests of reading [and I would say writing] ability. And that isfrequent, voluminous reading.”
~Nancie Atwell
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
In its annual effort to get Austinites on the same page, the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation announced today its 2012 Mayor’s Book Club pick,
Jesmyn Ward’s
Salvage the Bones.
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award winner for fiction,Salvage the Bonesfollows a 14-year-old girl named Esch, newly pregnant and obsessed with Greek mythology, in Gulf Coast country on the eve of Hurricane Katrina.The New York Timescalled it a “taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written.”
Teaching skills for college and work
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