Raising life long readers...
First step is to enable children to identify themselves as readers. Learning to read means decoding skills and acquisition of a whole...
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lakshmimitter
- Feb 14
- 4 min
How Much Is Enough Detail in Creative Writing?
Is it possible to go overboard with detail in an attempt to fill in gaps that a reader may point out at a later date? How does one know...
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lakshmimitter
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Power of Dialogues in Writing Fiction
Dialogue writing can be a very useful tool in writing as illustrated in several captivating children's books. Encouraging children to...
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lakshmimitter
- Nov 23, 2022
- 4 min
Peer Support Helps Build Confidence in Communication and Public Speaking Skills
Do these skills get acquired only if a child appears in short term courses, oratorical competitions and debates? Perhaps yes. But these...
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lakshmimitter
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
Making Book Recommendations Is Retelling
Here is why "retelling" is a critical component of enhancing your child's reading comprehension abilities. Recommending a book that they...
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lakshmimitter
- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
The Lesson That My Young Reading Companions Taught Me
Just like my young reading companions, I like to bring forth books that I have read recently and absolutely loved. Yesterday, my young...
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lakshmimitter
- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 min
Books Help Teach Empathy Through Stories. This Is One Such Book
My association with books as a reader has always been the luxury of travelling across the world from the comfort of my reading chair...
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lakshmimitter
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
Around The World In 30 Minutes
Sounds impossible? Not exactly. With an amazing book such as this one, the readers at the young readers' club managed to travel to four...
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lakshmimitter
- May 26, 2022
- 4 min
When Reading A Book Takes You On A Memorable Journey
I have always associated reading with unwinding on my favorite chair with a steaming hot cup of coffee within arm's reach. This book kept...
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lakshmimitter
- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
Enable young readers to take ownership of their reading journeys
The lessons that my young reading companions taught me. I once recommended Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger to a few young readers....
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lakshmimitter
- Jan 12, 2022
- 4 min
Want To Raise A Reader?
Then stop insisting that your children must read your book recommendations. #choiceofbooks #librariesacrossIndia #children'sbooks...
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lakshmimitter
- Dec 22, 2021
- 5 min
Do children enjoy reading a book because of the characters in it?
Children's literature is filled with a variety of interesting characters, some who can be utterly unrealistic like perhaps Ms.Trunchbull...
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lakshmimitter
- Nov 24, 2021
- 3 min
Developing the power of reading comprehension
There is a tendency to focus on maths and second language and even third language in a child's learning curriculum and rightly so....
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lakshmimitter
- Oct 13, 2021
- 5 min
How to Enhance Reading Comprehension?
Simply asking questions from the passage to test comprehension skills is hardly useful in enabling young readers to acquire the skill of...
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lakshmimitter
- Aug 11, 2021
- 4 min
An Exploration Into How The Legendary Amar Chitra Katha Comics Are Created @ The Young Readers' Club
We love experimenting with a variety of books at the Young Readers' Club. Comics and graphic novels aren't shunned but appreciated as...
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lakshmimitter
- Jun 11, 2021
- 5 min
Asha Nehemiah comes to Young Readers' Club As a Reader!
What does a children's book author read for fun? What does reading mean to an author? All this and many more questions were on our minds....
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lakshmimitter
- Mar 31, 2021
- 4 min
Reading can be awesome! Age no bar:)
It depends on what one associates reading with. Photo by Brina Blum on Unsplash “We tend to think of that era as one when there were no...
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lakshmimitter
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
What Do You Think Is The Story?
Every young reader as always was asked to find and read books that caught their attention. But this time, they were told that they would...
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