Read With Your Kids, Especially on Lit World Day

Does your child enjoy reading? If not, there is a way people can change that "No." On March 3rd, 2010, there will be a read aloud at Books INC., in San Francisco from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Reading can help your kid fall in love with language. By this, your kids might bring you a book for you to read. Also, your child can be exposed with forms of language (like how to make good sentences and on grammar). This can help your kid in language at school.

Kids need to enjoy the way books are made. When kids enjoy books, it can help them with their actions. Did you ever think about how reading can build you and your kids relationship? Well, it can! As kids read, they can express their feelings. You can also deal with issues kids may be going through. Finally, kids can learn the power or strength of a story.

I would encourage parents to read with their children because it can bring happier lives into this world.

For more information about the book reading in San Francisco on March 3, click here.

To learn more, go to:

http://litworld.org/wrad/submissions/

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/storysection=view_from_the_bay/parenting_babies&id=7297850

Save the Words

Student: Jennifer L.

Every year we chuckle when words like “staycation” or “unfriend” are admitted into our dictionaries. But we often forget about the other, venerable words that get bumped to make room. Feel bad? Fear not. Save the Words, a clever new Web site from Oxford University Press, is doing something about it.

The makers of the Oxford English Dictionary (which catalogs every word in English, ever) have developed the site based on the simple idea that a word won’t die if it gets used often enough. To that end, the site creatively displays a swath of at-risk words, each of which you may adopt by promising to use it at least once a day. This isn’t as easy as it might seem. Try, for instance, using “frutescent”—approaching the appearance of a shrub—or “archiloquy”—the first parts of a speech—naturally. But then, it may be better than speaking a language whose most interesting words come from clever rhymes and Facebook.

Write a news story about this website. Remember to include the five W's of a good news story: who, what, when, where, and why. Also, explain how someone can use this website. Add a link, at least one image, and several labels.

Also, include several of your favorite at risk words and their definitions.