by Cindy Noonan | Oct 15, 2017 | Parenting points to ponder, Worldview
I have family members with dyslexia who find reading hard work. I wish they didn’t have to struggle to learn this necessary skill. I recently found out that if certain changes are made to books, these people are better able to understand what they are reading....
by Cindy Noonan | Jan 15, 2016 | Parenting points to ponder, Worldview
I asked myself the above question when we celebrated Martin Luther King’s birthday in January. Did reading help him accomplish his goals as a Civil Rights Leader? Young minds are encouraged to dream big when reading becomes their passion. So I wondered how MLK fueled...
by Cindy Noonan | Dec 9, 2015 | Parenting points to ponder
Frank Bruni, an Op-ed columnist for the New York Times, recently published a column entitled “The Gift of Reading.” Here’s what he has to say: “The list of what a child needs in order to flourish is short but nonnegotiable. Shelter. Play. Love. Something else, too,...
by Cindy Noonan | Nov 12, 2015 | Parenting points to ponder, Worldview
Can kids better their reading scores by riding stationary bikes? North Carolina elementary counselor Scott Ertl wanted to find out. He put a donated bike in a classroom. One cycle soon grew into a room full of bikes pedaled by happy reading children. Scott has been...
by Cindy Noonan | Nov 11, 2015 | Parenting points to ponder
Author Anne Fishel, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Harvard Medical School, says that dinner conversation with your kids makes them better readers, and may even be more effective than reading them bedtime stories....
by Cindy Noonan | Nov 11, 2015 | Parenting points to ponder, Worldview
Well, here I am at Neil Armstrong Elementary School sharing about slavery and the Underground Railroad. When I first started writing Dark Enough to See the Stars, I didn’t realize how my book, or any other historical fiction, could impact a student’s...
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