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We will use this anthology in 2013. Help us name the next one! |
Name that Book Contest
Easy to Enter. Fabulous Prizes.
It's time to get your think on! Help us name our newest anthology of books by Maine authors and illustrators. The ninth in our series of anthologies, the collection includes titles by Scott Nash, Amy MacDonald, Lynn Plourde, Toni Buzzeo and Robert McCloskey.
Fabulous prizes: If we choose your title, you'll receive the very first copy of the anthology when it arrives in our hands next year. That's a long time to wait so we'll send you a canvas Raising Readers tote in the meantime. Plus, we'll acknowledge your contribution in the book itself.
It's easy to enter.Email your idea to: info@raisingreaders.org
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Generally, we try to use a title that shows the book is a collection of stories by Maine authors and illustrators for Maine kids. Previous anthology titles to help get your creative juices flowing!
Raising Readers: Five Stories for Maine Children Books from Maine: A Raising Readers Collection Raising Readers: A Treasury of Tales from Maine Maine Stories for Maine Children: A Raising Readers Collection
Raising Readers: A Collection of Stories from Maine (commemorative edition) |
 Setting the Scene for Literacy
As adults and readers, we encounter text all day every day. In fact, we process text so much we don't even notice it! Think back on your day...what text did you process today? Email? Stop sign? Recipe? Newspaper? Receipt? Help your child notice the print in your environment, and enrich the print in your environment by trying some of these ideas: - Make "book looks" the go-to activity between activities or while waiting for something like a doctor's appointment.
- Play "I spy" a word. See what words your child can find in your home. Encourage the hunting even if your child doesn't yet recognize the letters or the word. You're building awareness of print anyway!
- Enrich the words in your home by placing labels on common things like "door", "table", "chair", "window", etc.
- "Think aloud" about the print you use. Say things like, "I'm going to read this letter," or "I need to read the map to figure out where we are going." This models for your child that using and creating text is something important that big people do...and they can too!
Download our Early Literacy Calendar for more ways to help your child become a reader.
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