What’s In A Word?
Think about it. What do our words actually say when uttered? Whether they are said in our minds or out loud, our words have power. We may teach our children the chant “sticks and stones may break my bones, but
When to start reading to your child
I have asked this question this week in a poll, out of the 51 votes at this point in time, 3 said after the age of 2, where 48 said before the age of 2. Was anyone right or wrong?
Scrabble Can Be Fun!
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward
Opinion – Why Reading for Leisure is so Important
By Fatuma Abdullah – Author of Akiki’s Stories Reading for leisure has been defined as ‘reading done of our own free will outside the routine of school and or work’. The idea of leisure reading is that you read at your
ADD/ADHD, reading and learning
Nowadays almost every second child has ADD/ADHD. On every teachers, parents or moms facebook group, people are asking for advise, or ask parents for their opinion on the medicine available and where to get it. I have however also started
Literacy and Reading Goes hand in hand with Child & Youth Development
“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.” Literacy starts at infancy and reading is for life. We are forever reading be it messages on a billboard, a menu at a restaurant, ingredients, directions, news, the
Linking SA Literature to the Rest of the World
In 2004, I had proudly finished my first manuscript of the YA/time travel novel “Children of the Moon”, and there was still a long way to go from manuscript to published book. After about 15 test readers had given me
Learn What Your Name Means
Did you know that March 5th each year is Learn What Your Name Means day? We use names to identify people and things. It may be that your child does not actually KNOW your name as they always call you
Children’s Indie Book Tour
To all of our supporters and sponsors, this post is long overdue. But here we go! If you haven’t heard about the Reading Road Show, well, let me enlighten you and simultaneously, delight you! Mommies, teachers, and grandmothers, here we
“Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.”
That famous saying is attributed to St. Ignatius Loyola of the Jesuit Order and also to Aristotle, but I know it from a series of documentaries started in the ’60s that follows a group of British children, from a cross-section