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Dyslexia News - Massachusetts Action Alert upcoming legislation July 2018 -Decoding Dyslexia Massachusetts Decoding Dyslexia MA is a grassroots movement driven by parents, educators and professionals concerned with the limited access to research based interventions for dyslexia. We are inspired by and collaborating with other Decoding Dyslexia groups nationwide. We aim to raise awareness, to empower students with dyslexia and their families, and to inform policy makers on best practices to identify, remediate, and support students with dyslexia in Massachusetts public schools and institutions of higher learning. -Decoding Dyslexia Massachusetts Blog Most recent post from January 15, 2017 is '2017 Dyslexia Screening Legislation for Massachusetts' Massachusetts July 11, 2017 - State House News Service -DYSLEXIA INTERVENTION PITCHED AS CRITICAL NEED Colin A Young Understanding Dyslexia: The Intersection of Scientific Research & Education -MA Senate Full Committee Hearing -US Dept of Education Guidance Letter on Dyslexia Michael K Yudin -Call to Action for Children with Dyslexia - Wrightslaw -YES! (Youth Examples of Self Advocacy) Program -Dyslexia Laws in the USA: An Update -Hard to Read : How American schools fail kids with dyslexia Emily Hanford, APM -Unidentified Dyslexia Takes Heavy Toll Kyle Redford, Education Week -The Parent Grassroots Movement Julya Johnson and Deborah Lynam -International Dyslexia Association -The Gabrieli Lab at MIT -Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, Ed.D ELL and Learning Disabilities -Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Team at MGH -Dealing With Dyslexia Tonya Mosley, WBUR -They Struggled for Help WCVB Chronicle Episode -Why Doesn't MA Screen at an Early Age WCVB Chronicle Episode -Parents Take Their Case to the State House WCVB Chronicle Episode -Kids Want to Know They Have Dyslexia WCVB Chronicle Episode -Kindergarteners teaching Logic of English from Youtube Parents : Learning Gifts and Challenges -Proust and the Squid by MaryAnne Wolf -Embracing Dyslexia: The Interviews - Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D. YouTube video -Is Online Skimming Hurting Reading Comprehension? Maryanne Wolf on Here&Now -Overcoming Dyslexia Sally Shaywitz -Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity profile of Henry Winkler -Unwravelling the Myth by Priscilla Vail -From ABC to ADHD: What Every Parent Should Know About Dyslexia by Eric Q Tridas ed. -The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald Davis -Leading Literacy Change by Sandra Jones, et al. -Expert Perspectives on Interventions for Reading by Louisa C. Moats, et al. -A Guide To Helping Your Child At Home by Diana King -One by One: Working with Dyslexia by Diana King -Learning Cursive-Elementary Level; Keyboarding Skills by Diana King -Curious Reader Level One by Alicia Estes Ziegler -The Human Side of Dyslexia by Shirley Kurnoff -Uncovering the Logic of English by Denise Eide -Parenting a Struggling Reader by Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats -Best Reading Spelling Method by Susan B. Kahn The Writing Revolution What Works in Writing Instruction, Leslie Laud, Education Week From Talking to Writing, Terrill M. Jennings and Charles W. Haynes For Dyslexia State Dyslexia Laws trailer for "One by One the Teachings of Diana King Children's Literacy and Speech Sound Lab at Emerson College Is 'Internet Addiction' Real? Lesley McClurg KQED For Teens, Internet Addiction And School Burnout Can Be A Vicious Cycle Keith Wagstaff For The Children's Sake, Put Down That Smartphone Patti Neighmond Other Books for Adults -Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount Jr. -Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Hardcover by Kory Stamper NPR Fresh Air interview with Kory Stamper -Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea Children's books -Most People by Michael Leannah -Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett -Mrs. Gorski, I Think I Have The Wiggle Fidgets by Barbara Esham -A Walk in the Rain with a Brain by Edward Hallowell -Girls Think of Everything by Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet -Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Jones -How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer (read aloud on YouTube) -She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton -She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History by Chelsea Clinton -I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy -Dr. Seuss -Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! by Lynne Truss -The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes! by Lynne Truss -Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts! by Lynne Truss -Falling Up by Shel Silverstein -A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein -Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein -If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries by Judith Viorst -Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D.B. Johnson -If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond by Robert Burleigh -Compost: A Family Guide to Making Soil from Scraps by Ben Raskin -Wonder Books: Phonics Series by Alice K. Flanagan -Hank Zipzer Series by Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver -Patricia Polacco -Gail Gibbons -Waseca -Who Is Malada Yousafzai? by Dinah Brown -Serena Williams by Kristen Rajczak Nelson -Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renee Watson -Florence Mills : Harlem Jazz Queen by Bill Egan -Margaret And The Moon, How Margaret Hamilton Saved The First Lunar Landing by Dean Robbins -Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly -Grace Hopper, Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark -Who Was Rachel Carson? by Sarah Fabiny -Who Is Jane Goodall? by Roberta Edwards -Farmer Will Allen's Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin -One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies -Lin-Manuel Miranda by Stephanie Kraus -Who is JK Rowling? by Pamela Pollack and Meg Belviso -Wonder by RJ Palacio -Save Me a Seat by Gita Varadarajan -Women in Sports by Rachel Ignotofsky -Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix by Jaqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee -Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg -New Shoes by Sara Varon -Scoots, the Bog Turtle by Judy Cutchins and Ginny Johnston -Any Questions? by Marie-Louise Gay -Jack Prelutsky -Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome -Who Is Jeff Kinney? (Who Was?) by Patrick Kinney and John Hinderliter -Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guiberson -What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada Zen for Kids GoNoodle.com meditation for kids -A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles by Thich Nhat Hanh -Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry Lee MacLean -Master of Mindfulness: How to Be Your Own Superhero in Times of Stress by Laurie Grossman and Mr. Musumeci's 5th Grade Class -I Am Peace by Susan Verde Teens -Hamilton (musical) by Lin-Manuel Miranda -Inspirational video - Nadya Okamoto is running for Cambridge City Council (via YouTube) -A World Of Difference Institute Peer Training -Three Dot Dash -Michaela DePrince -The Food Project Lincoln MA -The Service Learning Project -EarthEcho International Nature and Education David Sobel's Outdoor School for All: Reconnecting Children to Nature, chapter in EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet, ed. E. Assadourian and L Mastny, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC, 2017. is available here as a PDF -Childhood and Nature by David Sobel -Place-Based Education by David Sobel -Mapmaking with Children by David Sobel -Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors by David Sobel Forest Schools article from Outdoor Families Magazine A Parents Guide to Nature Play Green Hearts Institute School's Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten documentary film At 'Nature Preschools,' Classes are Outdoors, Julie Depenbrock, Education Week Juniper Hill School, Alna, Maine Cedarsong Nature School, Vashon, Washington Greenschool, Bali, Indonesia Natural Start Alliance Teaching Among the Trees American Forests Nature books for children -Nature Log by Deanna Brandt -Bird Watching with Margaret Morse Nice by Michael Elsohn Ross -Fun With Nature by Mel Boring -Birds, Nests and Eggs by Mel Boring -Backyard Nature Coloring Book by Dot Barlowe -Truth about Nature by Stacy Torino -Arctic Lights Arctic Nights by Debbie S Miller -Little Loon by Fran Hodgkins -Beavers by Gail Gibbons -Frogs by Gail Gibbons -Ladybugs by Gail Gibbons -Sea Turtles by Gail Gibbons -Whales by Gail Gibbons -I Love Dirt by Jennifer Ward -For the Birds, The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Peggy Thomas -A Moose's World by Caroline Arnold -Henry Builds a Cabin by DB Johnson -If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden by Robert Burleigh -Henry David Thoreau for Kids by Corinne Hosfield Smith -Henry David Thoreau Loved the Seasons of the Year by Donna Marie Przybojewski -Born in the Nick of Time by Donna Marie Przybojewski -Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Tracking Guide by Lynn Levine and Martha Mitchell -Frogs, Toads & Turtles: Take Along Guide by Diane Burns -Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles by Kathryn Lasky and Christopher G Knight -Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles by Philippe Cousteau and Deborah Hopkinson -Moose (Animals of North America) by Christy Mihaly -Flower Watching With Alice Eastwood (Naturalist's Apprentice Biographies) by Michael Elsohn Ross and Laurie A. Caple -Seed Leaf Flower Fruit by Maryjo Koch -Trees (National Audubon Society First Field Guide) by Brian Cassie -The Tree Giants by Bill Schneider and D.D. Dowden -Mighty Tree by Dick Gackenbach -The Beaver Pond by Alvin R. Tresselt (Author), Roger Duvoisin (Illustrator) -Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart and Constance R. Bergum Nature books for adults -Naturally Curious by Mary Holland -Naturally Curious Day by Day by Mary Holland -On Arctic Ground and Midnight Wilderness by Debbie S Miller -Songbirds: Celebrating Nature's Voice by Ronald Orenstein -After Dinner Gardening by Richard Langer -Grow Your Own In Pots by Key/Wooster Maguire -The Bluebird Effect, Uncommon bonds with Birds by Julie Zickefoose -Letters from Eden by Julie Zickefoose -Baby Birds: An Artist Looks into the Nest by Julie Zickefoose Listen to Julie Zicklefoose on NPR A Lucky Wren In A Warehouse -The Year of the Turtle by David M. Carroll -Swampwalker Journal by David M. Carroll -Nature Connection, Clare Walker Leslie -The Curious Nature Guide by Claire Walker Leslie -Keeping a Nature Journal by Claire Walker Leslie -Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt -Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast by Michael Wojtech -Camping with Kids by Helen Olsson -The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling by John Muir Laws -A Blessing of Toads : A Guide to Living with Nature by Sharon Lovejoy -Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages by Joseph Cornell and Richard Louv -Nature Guide to New England by Erin McCloskey and Gregory Kennedy -Walden (Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau -Walden Pond A History by W. Barksdale Maynard -The Guide to Walden Pond by Robert M Thorson -Blazing Ahead by Jeffrey H. Ryan (about making the Appalachian trail) -Appalachian Odyssey: A 28-Year Hike on America's Trail by Jeffrey H. Ryan -Birding without Borders by Noah Strycker -The Big Year movie based on the book by Mark Obmascik -Winged Migration movie, trailer on youtube -Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien -Wesley the Owl audiobook -BirdNote, the Book collection of short essays from the radio show by multiple authors -Forest Bathing by Qing Li -The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben -A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Wild Gatherings by Matt Sewell -Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb -Secret Lives of Common Birds by Marie Read -The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker Nature websites Mass Audubon To the Arctic - IMAX movie Harris Center for Conservation Education Salamander Crossing Brigades in NH Massachusetts North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (with links to frog calls) Your Great Outdoors (A Mass Audubon Blog) Why Birds Matter, and Are Worth Protecting by Jonathan Franzen (National Geographic) Why Birds Matter in 2018 NPR On Point interview with Jonathan Franzen) National Audubon Society Birding site The Cornell Lab of Ornithology BirdNote radio show online Naturally Curious Blog Mary Holland Lang Elliott Music of Nature Great Meadows Concord MA photography blog by Larry Warfield Walden Pond Concord MA Walden Film The Walden Woods Project Sudbury Valley Trustees nature sightings page Jonathan Kolby Honduras Amphibian Rescue David Suzuki Foundation The Jane Goodall Institute An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power Call Of The Forest documentary featuring Diana Beresford-Kroeger Zoo New England's Grassroots Wildlife Conservation Nature museum The W!LD CENTER, Tupper Lake NY cross country skiing Windblown New Ipswich NH cross country skiing Great Brook Carlise MA Maine Huts & Trails Mount Washington Observatory International Mountain Equipment North Conway NH Climbers Who Volunteer, by Erik Eisele Appalachia, Winter/Spring 2018 about Rick Wilcox is available here as a PDF OuterU faceGlove cold weather nose and cheek protection Hutchins Farm Concord MA organic farm Nature programs National Park Service Junior Ranger Program Appalachian Mountain Club Family and Teen Programs Kroka Expeditions Summer and year round wilderness expedition school in Marlow, NH Summer Camps Mass Audubon Artists Carroll art gallery Artist Libby Davidson Tapestries and recycled sweater creations Pear Tree Studio Math and Art Glass Geometry MoonCrazy Fibre Arts Dan Johnson Designs Rubia The Maine Alpaca Experience Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm in Unity, Maine Open Door Theater Acton, MA Lin Manuel Miranda Rosegarden Freestyle Lin Manuel Miranda Julie's Greenroom Julie Andrews

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