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Scholastic Parents: Raise a Reader

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Celebrate Creativity and Imagination with Your Kids!

May 24, 2013

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Maggie McGuire

Join Sarah Jessica Parker and Zac Posen at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards LIVE from Carnegie Hall.

Help Your Child Fall in Love With Reading. It's...

May 23, 2013

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Sonja Cole

Reading as a leisure activity is the best predictor of comprehension, vocabulary, and reading speed.

Take a Trip to Medieval Europe Through Books

May 23, 2013

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Sonja Cole

You can -- and should -- help guide your children to great books, but let them make the ultimate decision about what to read.

What to Do When Your Child Can't Remember What He...

May 20, 2013

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Amy Mascott

How parents can support children who need help remembering what they read.

Scholastic Parents: The Learning Toolkit

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4 Interactive Apps That Help Toddlers and Preschoolers...

May 24, 2013

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Leticia Barr

The abundant apps available for toddlers and preschoolers provide a wealth of hands-on learning through interactive activities.

Pictures 1, 2, 3

May 22, 2013

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Amy Kraft

Charts with illustrations and photographs are great for reminding pre-readers of the steps needed to complete a task.

This Week from Bedtime Math: Wrong Number

May 21, 2013

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Laura Overdeck

How many phone numbers do you think are out there? And how many of them are actually wrong numbers? Try some phone number math to find out!

10 Reasons to Take Your Child to Maker Faire

May 17, 2013

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Amy Kraft

In this celebration of making and DIY, inspire your kids to learn new skills, invent new things, and imagine amazing possibilities for the future.

Media Macaroni

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An Epic Saturday Morning

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Amy Kraft

May 22, 2013

Olive and I had the pleasure of attending our first movie world premiere on Saturday, with the premiere of Epic the Movie at the Ziegfeld. I promised...

5 Years of Media Macaroni

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Amy Kraft

May 21, 2013

Wanna know something crazy? Today marks five years since my very first post on Media Macaroni! Crazy, right? To give you a sense of what five years is...

Go to Times Square You Must. Big Lego Surprise You...

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Amy Kraft

May 20, 2013

This Thursday, May 23, head down to Times Square at 11:00 am to see an unveiling of the world’s largest Lego model. All I can say is that it has...

GeoGuessr: The Global Game

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Amy Kraft

May 11, 2013

I’m warning you, don’t read this post if there are productive things that you’re meant to be doing right now. I happened on GeoGuessr in a friend’s...

Teach Mama

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budgie and parakeet fun fact lunchbox notes: help kids...

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Amy Mascott mascott

May 22, 2013

We are now the proud owners of two budgies. Or parakeets. Or budgerigars. Two budgies. Two boys (we hope!). Right. Apparently, all budgies are parakeets...

how to help your child remember what he reads

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Amy Mascott mascott

May 20, 2013

Some children are able to easily read the words on a page but cannot remember a lick of what they read. Believe it. Whole paragraphs, pages, chapters can...

raising word conscious kids: a chat with Mando and...

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Amy Mascott mascott

May 16, 2013

I can’t stress enough the importance of raising word-conscious kids. Words are everywhere, all around us. Why not capitalize on the learning...

how to get your kids started with texting: texting 101

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Amy Mascott mascott

May 14, 2013

Texting is big. For tweens, it’s really big. It’s like the coolest thing ever. And everyone is doing it (or so they think), and so Maddy has asked...

No Time for Flash Cards

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18 Books About Sea Animals

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Allison McDonald

May 24, 2013

This week was aquarium week for us. My son’s kindergarten class visited the Seattle Aquarium on Wednesday and yesterday my parents and I took my daughter...

Simple Play Stations For Busy Days

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Allison McDonald

May 23, 2013

Every parent has those days at home when you HAVE to get stuff done. Maybe it’s work , homeschooling older children, or maybe you are fighting a bad cold...

13 Patriotic Crafts For Kids

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Allison McDonald

May 22, 2013

Next Monday is Memorial Day and whenever I do any patriotic posts I consult with my husband since he’s American and a former Air Force Officer. I on the...

Water Balloon Game { Learning After School}

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Allison McDonald

May 21, 2013

My son’s all time favorite activity we’ve ever done was our Angry Birds Water Balloon Game. Warm weather and a half day of school made yesterday the...

On Our Minds @ Scholastic

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Summer reading: What’s in our “stacks”?

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Lauren

May 24, 2013

Happy Memorial Day Weekend, OOM readers! That’s right, this weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and for some of us, the official start of...

In Our Feeds: excerpt of The Dream Thieves, 20 most...

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Jessica

May 24, 2013

Every Friday, we share a handful of links that we found funny, provocative or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a good weekend! I wanted to...

130th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge

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Alex

May 24, 2013

Today marks the 130th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge! As many of you know, Scholastic Headquarters is located in downtown Manhattan so many of my...

Freddy says . . .

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Suzanne

May 23, 2013

Few people know more about kids and reading than Freddy Hiebert. The California-based literacy expert and head of TextProject has devoted her life to...