Youtube Acorn TV has UK Murder Mystery, Detective Fiction Classics

If you're like me, and have read every Christie, Sayers, Marsh you can find, and want to watch the movie versions, you need to read this. If you love Campion, Lord Peter, Poirot, Miss Marple, Sherlock, Miss Fisher, read on. If Prime Suspect, Foyle's War, Inspector Lewis, Bonekickers are your guilty pleasure, also read more. We don't have cable or even network TV (our antennae is defunct). So I'm Youtube-dependent. And I found all my UK favorites on Acorn TV. Subscribe to Acorn TV or Not? Tis the Question

Free Reading Crafts, Literature Response Lessons

Kids rejoice when released from school for vacation. But parents and teachers often worrry that learning will lag with too much time away from books? Here are reading activities and book-based crafts and literature response lessons.  Free Summer Reading Activities, Book Crafts, Literature Response Lessons

Anti-Bullying Bibliotherapy Books for Kids

This is the 75th anniversary year of the prestigious Caldecott Medal for children's book illustrations. Books are essential to learning and bibliotherapy is an important tool in teaching affective lessons. I use children's literature to defuse a gamut of emotionally charged issues. Bulling tops the list. Here's a reading list that helps kids deal with bullies in proactive ways. These books are funny and light-hearted. Anti-Bullying Bibliotherapy Books for Kids