Reading Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/reading/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Reading Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/reading/ 32 32 89931359 What Grade Are You In? A Bit of Common Sense from Understood Betsy https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:13:09 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3746 Summer is winding down in the northern hemisphere and schoolbooks are being dusted off and swimsuits put away. I always enjoyed getting back into an orderly and predictable schedule (as orderly and predictable as was possible in a household with...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/feed/ 1 3746 Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Art of Historical Fiction https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:24:52 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3627 The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was recently renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, a remarkably generic name for such a prestigious award. A lot has been said about the change, and most that I have seen has been negative, with reactions...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/feed/ 2 3627 Middle School Reading Lists: What a difference 100 years makes! https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:20:03 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3614 I recently came across an interesting comparison of two middle school reading lists. The author, Annie Holmquist, compared a list from 1908 with a current list from the same state on the basis of time period, thematic elements, and reading...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/feed/ 2 3614 When is Reading Hard? https://doingwhatmatters.com/when-is-reading-hard/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/when-is-reading-hard/#respond Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:38:14 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3570 Reading, Comprehension, and Knowledge Do you enjoy reading? I do. I grew up reading voraciously — new books, old books, books set in the city, the country, in foreign lands, and many books that featured characters that lived lives very...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/when-is-reading-hard/feed/ 0 3570 How to Enjoy Poetry Every Week https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:35:28 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3325 Do you read poetry and share it with your children? I’d like to prescribe a dose of poetry every single day, but I know that might seem daunting. How about poetry every week instead? Start with simple poems, laying a solid...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/feed/ 0 3325 July 2017 Newsletter https://doingwhatmatters.com/july-2017-newsletter/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/july-2017-newsletter/#respond Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:32:32 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3445 A newsletter and a reading suggestion I’ve had several people ask me if there is a difference between the newsletter I hand out at conferences, and the one that comes via email, so I thought I’d show you a sample....

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/july-2017-newsletter/feed/ 0 3445 Choosing Books for Boys https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:17:10 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3407 Choosing books for boys isn’t all that hard. Give them adventure — the kind with blood and courage, dirt and ingenuity — and watch their imaginations soar, assuming they haven’t been “Eustaced”* by the sort of twaddle mentioned in Martin...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/feed/ 1 3407 A poem, truth, and the month of May https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/#respond Thu, 05 May 2016 20:14:27 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2476 Under the Willows by James Russell Lowell, 1819 – 1891 May is a pious fraud of the almanac, A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind; Or if, o’er-confident, she trust the date, And, with her...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/feed/ 0 2476 The Benefits of Reading: Seven Tips for Reading More https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-benefits-of-reading/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-benefits-of-reading/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:56:36 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2241 Why spend time reading? Just in case you need an excuse to read to your children (or just to read for yourself), the infographic below outlines a host of benefits of reading. Although there are many practical reasons to read...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-benefits-of-reading/feed/ 7 2241 Winter Reading: Something Old, Something New https://doingwhatmatters.com/winter-reading/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/winter-reading/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:14:22 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1641 I love long, cosy winter evenings spent with a good book and a cat. This is when I whittle down the reading pile I’ve accumulated by my chair during the convention season and travel months. While some of my winter...

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