Monday, June 14, 2010

Kid-to-Kid Reading

The importance of reading...we hear about it all the time.  Usually, the focus is on encouraging grown folks to read to kids.  What I've come to realize, though, is that when there are books around, kids read to kids!  Today that's what happened when Dareeona and Chunk Chunk stopped by:



This summer, the neighborhood scavenger hunters are working on putting together a website to share ideas and discoveries, and the video clip of Dareeona reading to Chunk Chunk is posted there too.  If you want to check it out, click here.  The D's mom, Donna, checked it out herself on the laptop - that's one proud mom:


So how might we rethink approaches to promoting "early literacy," to make the most of all the naturally occurring kid-to-kid reading, teaching and learning that's going on?  Maybe we could take a few hints from Sugata Mitra, and the "Hole in the Wall" efforts he's leading in India, posted on TED here.

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