https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rally-Jacksonville-A-Citys-Gift-to-Its-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/4/2006 Rally Jacksonville Transcript As the Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, John Peyton launched a pre-kindergarten literacy program that is remarkable in its scope, its accomplishments, and its support throughout the city. The program is called Rally Jacksonville, and it has quickly become a national model for how to bring […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Guysreadcom.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/11/2006 Guysread.com Transcript One of the coolest looking and most useful websites currently online for young people — especially young boy people — is John Scieszka’s guysread.com. Scieszka is the author of books like Science Verse, Math Curse, The Time Warp Trio, and The Stinky Cheeseman, that classic […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Real-Time.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/20/2005 Real Time Transcript How important is it that children learn to “read the world”1 along with the words on a page? More than 35 years ago, Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator, introduced the teaching of critical literacy, a reading strategy that “promotes reflection, transformation, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Reading-Out-Loud-Together.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/10/2001 Reading Out Loud, Together: An Interview with Mary Ann Paulin Transcript We spoke recently with Mary Ann Paulin, a public librarian from Marquette, Michigan, and the author of two books on the Creative Uses of Children’s Literature. Ms Paulin’s central concern is how […]
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Rita Smith’s Lost and Found essay today is about one of the hardest letters of the alphabet to make up anything about: the letter X.