Deborah L. Wolter

There are plenty of studies and observations on the value of early childhood education, scripted reading programs, and instructional methods for literacy development. Research can be quantitative or qualitative and some research designs are stronger than others. No matter, it’s hard to research growing children in an ethical manner while accounting for all their individual…

A friend asked, is doodling a form of literacy? Why not? My friend responded that he always got in trouble in school for doodling. Perhaps not for doodling, but for seemingly not listening when he claimed he was listening. All of us have found ourselves scribbling, sketching, and making random little designs with patterns, textures,…

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What do we need to thrive as readers and writers? The kind of reading that catch kiddos reading under their covers by flashlight long after their bedtimes? The kind of reading that make people miss their subway stops? The kind of reading that satisfy curiosity? Or the kind of reading that wants to make people…