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The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting five recent French children's films with the following titles on the following days: > Ernest and Celestine Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30 pm - 3:50 pm > Kirikou and the Men and the Women Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Friday, April 19, 2013 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm > The Painting Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm > A Monster in Paris Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm > Zarafa Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:30 am - 12:00 pm For plot summaries and more information on the aforementioned films listed above, click here: http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/boston-international-children%E2%80%99s-film-festival. Tickets go on sale March 29th and are $10.00 for adults and children ages 3 & up.

Authors: Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin, Editors; Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National Research Council Authoring Organizations Description: With literacy problems plaguing as many as four in ten American children, this important book draws upon the expertise of psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators to establish clear recommendations on several prominent education controversies. This book explores how to prevent reading ...

This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances-especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question-as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities. This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community's current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K-12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.

NICHD Research: Setting the Record Straight NRRF Note: The following review of Gerald Coles' new book attacking NICHD and NICHD researchers was done by a respected non-NICHD researcher. The book, Misreading Reading: The Bad Science That Hurts Children, is being promoted widely and aggressively by the IRA, NCTE, and the WL communities. We are posting the review to set the record straight in an objective manner. Straw Men and Very Misleading Reading: A Review of Misreading Reading by Louise Spear-Swerling

"The Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE) is a hypermedia environment which contains video clips of reading classrooms, transcripts, questions to ponder, further reading resources, and an interactive notebook. The video footage of exemplary teachers teaching reading drives users' inquiries. We hope that RCE broadens teachers' opportunities to observe children and teachers from different cultural backgrounds, environments, and theoretical perspectives. "

Japanese children's website - good reading material for learners.

Good collection of links to reading resources, such as open content textbooks, folk tales, children's stories, as well as links to tools to support reading, such as addng furigana to kanji.

Interest piece from news station in Minnesota about decrease in second language programs in elementary schools. Features Elaine Tarone from CARLA at University of MN.