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  Today's tip for parents from two talented teachers comes from  365 Teacher Secrets for Parents  by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly.                                                         #131 Poetry   Too many of us strive for new abilities instead of striving to develop abilities we already have lying dormant within us. ~Alfred A. Montapert   There is a poet inside all of us in one way or another. We tend to think of poetry in the traditional way of exquisite verse that rhymes perfectly. Many of us think we could never write like that, but poetry is so much more than that—and so much less. It is simply someone’s view of the world put in such a way that may have not been done before; it’s seeing something extraordinary in something someone else has not; it’s the art of finding and interpreting ideas by...

  Today's tip for parents from two talented teachers comes from  365 Teacher Secrets for Parents  by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly.                                                              #120 Writing Reinforces Reading   It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ~ Napoleon Hill               In this chapter, you learned some ways to help your child conquer reading informational texts. There is one last way that deserves to be mentioned. Write! Yes, writing reinforces reading. It makes sense that the more a child reads, the better reader he becomes. The more he writes the better writer he becomes. Did you also know how much the two reinforce each other? The more a child writes the better read...

Today's tip for parents from two talented teachers comes from  365 Teacher Secrets for Parents  by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly.                                                              #119 Until We Meet Again   "Two roads diverged in a wood and I— I took the road less traveled by  and that has made all the difference."  ~Robert Frost               The two roads Robert Frost was talking about came together and offered him a choice. In the biographical books you read to your child or that she reads herself, rarely (if ever) do the paths of favorite people from different books come together. Wouldn’t it be neat if they did? Could your child make that happen? Sure! Here’s how: 1.      Discuss with your...