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When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.


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The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.



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I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

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I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.



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Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly: the chances are, it's holding you, too.



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As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.



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Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.



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