Of Books, Writing, & Reading Aloud

Following are links to some interesting newspaper articles and blog posts:

• Here’s an article from The Vancouver Sun written by Chris Lackner: Coraline author Neil Gaiman an explorer of strange, new worlds (February 5, 2009)
  
  


• Here’s an article from The Orlando Sentinel written by Leslie Postal: Orlando-area students learn to escape the FCAT writing 'cage' (February 9, 2009)
  
  


• And from The Seattle Times, here’s an interesting article by Isolde Raftery: Infants learn earlier than thought (February 3, 2009)

• From Millie Davis at the NCTE Inbox blog: To Read Aloud or Not to Read Aloud (Note: Davis includes a link to Franki Sibberson’s post of February 9th at A Year of Reading—Reading Aloud Conversation.

• Reading Aloud Conversation includes a link to How Can We Encourage Reading Aloud? At Jen Robinson’s Book page.