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(list in progress-watch for more titles) Dyslexia News Massachusetts July 11, 2017 - State House News Service -DYSLEXIA INTERVENTION PITCHED AS CRITICAL NEED Colin A Young -US Dept of Education Guidance Letter on Dyslexia Michael K Yudin -Hard to Read : How American schools fail kids with dyslexia Emily Hanford, APM -Unidentified Dyslexia Takes Heavy Toll Kyle Redford, Education Week -Decoding Dyslexia Massachusetts -International Dyslexia Association -The Gabrieli Lab at MIT -Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Team at MGH Parents : Learning Gifts and Challenges -Proust and the Squid 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, Priscilla Vail -From ABC to ADHD: What Every Parent Should Know About Dyslexia, Eric Q Tridas ed. -The Gift of Dyslexia, Ronald Davis -Leading Literacy Change, Sandra Jones, et al. -Expert Perspectives on Interventions for Reading, Louisa C. Moats, et al. -A Guide To Helping Your Child At Home, Diana King -One by One: Working with Dyslexia, Diana King -Learning Cursive-Elementary Level; Keyboarding Skills, Diana King -Curious Reader Level One, Alicia Estes Ziegler -The Human Side of Dyslexia, Shirley Kurnoff -Uncovering the Logic of English, Denise Eide -Parenting a Struggling Reader, Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats -Best Reading Spelling Method, Susan B. Kahn The Writing Revolution For Dyslexia State Dyslexia Laws trailer for "One by One the Teachings of Diana King Is 'Internet Addiction' Real? Lesley McClurg KQED For Teens, Internet Addiction And School Burnout Can Be A Vicious Cycle Keith Wagstaff Children's books -Extra Yarn, Mac Barnett -Mrs. Gorski, I Think I Have The Wiggle Fidgets, Barbara Esham -A Walk in the Rain with a Brain, Edward Hallowell -Girls Think of Everything, Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet -Mistakes that Worked, Charlotte Jones -How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids, Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer (read aloud on YouTube) -She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, Chelsea Clinton -Dr. Seuss -Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, Lynne Truss -The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes!, Lynne Truss -Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts!, Lynne Truss -Falling Up, Shel Silverstein -A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein -Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein -If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries, Judith Viorst -Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, D.B. Johnson -If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond, Robert Burleigh -Compost: A Family Guide to Making Soil from Scraps, Ben Raskin -Wonder Books: Phonics Series, Alice K. Flanagan -Hank Zipzer Series, by Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver -Patricia Polacco -Gail Gibbons -Waseca Teens -Hamilton (musical) by Lin-Manuel Miranda -inspirational video -Nadya Okamoto is running for Cambridge City Council (via YouTube) 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, David Sobel -Place-Based Education, David Sobel -Mapmaking with Children, David Sobel -Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors, 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 adults -Naturally Curious Mary Holland -Naturally Curious Day by Day Mary Holland -On Arctic Ground and Midnight Wilderness Debbie S Miller -Songbirds: Celebrating Nature's Voice, Ronald Orenstein -After Dinner Gardening, Richard Langer -Grow Your Own In Pots, Key/Wooster Maguire -The Bluebird Effect, Uncommon bonds with Birds, Julie Zickefoose -Letters from Eden Julie Zickefoose -Baby Birds: An Artist Looks into the Nest, Julie Zickefoose Listen to Julie Zicklefoose on NPR A Lucky Wren In A Warehouse -The Year of the Turtle, David M. Carroll -Swampwalker Journal, David M. Carroll -Nature Connection, Clare Walker Leslie -The Curious Nature Guide, Claire Walker Leslie -Keeping a Nature Journal, Claire Walker Leslie -Mozart's Starling, Lyanda Lynn Haupt -Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast, Michael Wojtech -Camping with Kids, Helen Olsson -The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws -A Blessing of Toads : A Guide to Living with Nature, Sharon Lovejoy -Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages, Joseph Cornell and Richard Louv -Nature Guide to New England, Erin McCloskey and Gregory Kennedy -Walden (Life in the Woods), Henry David Thoreau Nature books for children -Nature Log, Deanna Brandt -Bird Watching with Margaret Morse Nice, Michael Elsohn Ross -Fun With Nature, Mel Boring -Birds, Nests and Eggs, Mel Boring -Backyard Nature Coloring Book, Dot Barlowe -Truth about Nature Stacy Torino -Arctic Lights Arctic Nights Debbie S Miller -Little Loon Fran Hodgkins -Beavers, Gail Gibbons -Frogs, Gail Gibbons -Ladybugs, Gail Gibbons -Sea Turtles, Gail Gibbons -Whales, Gail Gibbons -Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Tracking Guide, Lynn Levine and Martha Mitchell Nature websites Mass Audubon 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) National Audubon Society Birding site The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Naturally Curious Blog Mary Holland Great Meadows Concord MA photography blog by Larry Warfield Walden Pond Concord MA Sudbury Valley Trustees nature sightings page David Suzuki Foundation An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power Grassroots Wildlife Conservation Nature museum The W!LD CENTER, Tupper Lake NY local canoe trips Big Heart, Little Feet cross country skiing Windblown 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 The Maine Alpaca Experience Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm in Unity, Maine Zen for Kids GoNoodle.com meditation for kids -A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles, Thich Nhat Hanh -Moody Cow Meditates, Kerry Lee MacLean -Master of Mindfulness: How to Be Your Own Superhero in Times of Stress, Laurie Grossman and Mr. Musumeci's 5th Grade Class

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