What activates reading? What do we read? When do we read? Here are 47 things: Blog Articles Songs Poetry Drama Advertisements Billboards Television Brochures Grocery packages Grocery receipts Bills Bank Statements Notes Text messages Emails Magazines Tabloids Newspapers Timetable: school, examination Bus routes, tickets Train routes, tickets Street directories Recipe books Novels Storybooks Textbooks Invitation [...]
What Activates And Deactivates Reading? 47 Things.
by Annie Cook on August 25, 2009 in Language, Learning Skills, Personal Blog
The Love Of Silence
by Hanifa K. Cook on February 3, 2009 in Childhood, Montessori
Silence is golden and ignorance is bliss. How are we to understand the real meaning of silence if it were not for the presence of noise? This is a blog about silence. On a cold winter night, the fireplace in the family room at home would be the perfect place for sharing the quiet ambience [...]
Spanish Lessons Review
by Hanifa K. Cook on January 27, 2009 in Language
My page on ning is giving me good Spanish learning experience. It offers most of the variables needed to learn language for adults of any age. You get time, space and lots of friends to mingle with. I am through my first week in the site and am learning more each day. It is a [...]
How Do Children Construct Knowledge?
by Hanifa K. Cook on November 26, 2008 in Childhood, Language, Learning Skills
Childhood formula is by far the most intimate and priced possession of a person. It does not matter who you are, where you live, or what background you come from; every person has a childhood history. The growing up formula which we carry into adulthood, are the necessary ingredients which fashion our behaviour towards our [...]
My Aussie Blog
by Hanifa K. Cook on November 6, 2008 in Language
When I first visited Australia, I was pleasantly surprised and amused at how different English sounds. All along, we are taught to pronounce our English like it is the only way it is suppose to be. Australian accent is so different I could hardly understand a word especially when they speak so fast. I have [...]
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