On Their Own

In my previous post, I wrote about the importance of reading to your children at least 10 minutes everyday and letting your children catch you reading. On a Wednesday afternoon, after I let them sit on one chair at our unfinished starter library, Nick and Toni picked a copy of this book entitled “Pag-abot ni Kolor sa Lungsod” (When Color Came to Town) and started “reading”. I guess this is what we get after one year of exposing our children to books. Nope, these aren’t fake or staged. These are real photos of them holding the book, sharing the book, and “reading” it.

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Basadours teams up with SM, Parkmall

Head off to these two malls on the dates mentioned. Interested to volunteer as storytellers or be part of the Basadours? Visit www.basadours.org or www.facebook.com/basadours. The Basadours joins two malls – SM City Cebu and Parkmall – in celebrating National Children’s Book Day (NCBD) by holding back-to-back storytelling sessions this …

The Pseudo-Reading Stage: The Timothy Experiment

Jeanne Chall’s Stages of Reading Development noted that between six months to six years old – called Stage 0 or Pre-reading/Pseudo reading stage – children “pretends” to read by retelling stories as they flip through the pages of books previously read to them. That’s happening to our Nicholas and Antoinette …

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