#reading friends

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Yellow Favorites (Both the books and the cardigan)

QOTD: What is the longest book you have ever read? How many pages?

Mine is Atlas Shrugged, 1,168 pages

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I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

Lloyd Jones, Mr Pip

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-Looking for science fiction/space opera along the lines of: ...

lover-of-the-starkindler

E. B. Dawson's novella _Voyage of the Pequod_ comes to mind, and scrolling through my Kindle shows David D. Levine's _Arabella of Mars_, Kathleen McClure's _Soldier of Fortune_,  J. Grace Pennington's _Firmament: Radialloy_, and Stephanie Ricker's _The Cendrillion Cycle_ (particularly volume 2, which was published in the anthology _Five Glass Slippers_)

Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions! I’ve popped Firmament: Radialloy onto my Kindle already and am looking forward to checking the others out.

jomiddlemarch

The Dazzle of Day is about Quakers in space. I'm not kidding. It's gorgeous and meditative and very sci-fi.

This sounds amazing, and I’m really irritated none of the libraries in my library’s system have this for Kindle. I’ll have to request it as an ILL once the local library opens back up for regular loaning.

selkiesstories

Sharon Shinn?

I’d almost forgotten that she’s written some sci-fi as well as fantasy! I adore her Elemental Blessings series. I’ve been leery about the Samaria series because I get twitchy over fiction featuring angels/demons/spiritual forces. Is it something that is going to get my theological radar going, or is it less “real” angels and more “entities that are called angels but actually have no relation to Biblical angels even in-story”?

fictionadventurer

Maybe "Binti" by Nnedi Okorafor? It's on the weird side and I wasn't overly crazy about it, but from what I remember it's a small, personal, relatively pleasant story.

I have read that! It was a little too much on the weird side for me, as well as a little more gore than I generally prefer. I tried the second one as well and couldn’t get into it enough to finish it, alas.

Thank you for all the suggestions, everyone! I love that no matter what sort of story I’m looking for, I can always be certain that if I bring my needs to Tumblr you all will come through for me.

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We were friends for fifty years and we did many things together. We mended roofs. We cooked. We collaborated on books. We travelled. We mixed cement. We went on demonstrations. Sometimes we read the same book in the same week so as to discuss it.

John Berger

Confabulations

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Truth About Reading Friends

Reading Friends is developed by a Reading Specialist with a master's degree in special education. Designed to teach children how to read through interactive games, puzzles, and music. Each lesson follows a developmentally appropriate sequence, beginning with skills for children who have little or no reading background through early grade school level reading. 

Children will complete 10-17 games within each lesson and can revisit any previous lessons to reinforce what they've already learned. This repetition gives children the needed practice for these skills to become part of their long-term memory. The lessons are designed around themes that appeal to young children, such as Ocean Life, Prehistoric, and Transportation. 

Each activity is highly interactive, fun, and will keep your children wanting more. Children are rewarded with gold coins that they can spend on various prizes. This encourages children to stay on task and keeps them motivated.

Children will learn the names and sounds of letters, identify and spell the most common high-frequency words (sight words), recognize rhyming pairs, build word families and spell CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant). They will master all of the necessary reading readiness skills, such as left to right directionality, both in a word and a sentence, one to one correspondence, and being able to follow a pattern in a book created at their level. The lessons get progressively harder, building on what your children have already learned. 

Children can progress at their own pace while being challenged to go on to the next developmental level.

Every lesson ends with a short pattern book that children will have a choice to read on their own or have read to them. Each book highlights the skills that have been previously taught and encourage children to use other word solving strategies, such as initial sounds and picture cues to challenge them further. The books also offer a chance for children to gain confidence as they begin reading on their own.

At the end of each theme (every 15 lessons), there is an assessment. This assessment gives parents and teachers feedback on what your child is learning. If children do not pass the assessment, they will be directed to go back and review previous lessons until they are able to pass. 

Children can spend as much time in one lesson as they need in order to master it and go back to any previous lessons already completed.

The Reading Friends team has also added a Dyslexie font option. With the click of a button, you can change the font throughout the entire website. Just altering the font so that each letter is unique and can be recognized more easily, can help children immensely with dyslexia. 

Learn more here about reading friends :

https://www.facebook.com/readingfriendswebsite/

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