How can we make learning and reading fun again? How can we get our children excited to open a book? Or explore a new subject? Here are some ideas we used. Besides, these don’t just work for kids!
Find Fun Bookmarks
Do you have a super comfortable place in your home just for reading? Perhaps it’s time to make one! Throw blankets on the floor or make a permanent window seat where anyone can go to enjoy a good book. By making your home suitable for reading, you’ll be setting the stage for lifelong readers.
Get Into a Program
Most libraries have a reading program that ends in a prize especially in the summer. If your kids don’t have one, make your own reading challenge or program.
Model Learning
If you want your kids to become lifelong learners and readers, they should see their parents doing it too. The truth is that we do what is modeled for us, not what someone tells us to do.
| A．Create a Reading Spot |
| B．Find a Place for Reading |
| C．Find books that you love to read and join a challenge yourself |
| D．One of the best gifts you could give your kids is a love for learning |
| E．Adults can also use extra motivation to get our minds in high condition |
| F．These cute printable bookmarks to color are the perfect start to reading |
| G．Let the kids decide what they’d like to do if they hit their reading goals |
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【推荐1】How to Teach Respect
Respect is one of the most important, fundamental skills a child can ever learn. A sense of respect is important for succeeding in school, holding down a job, and having adult relationships.
You should set a good example to your kids. When it comes to teaching children respect, it all boils down to this. Children are easily affected by what they see.
You should encourage activities that require sharing and cooperation. One of the reasons that respect is so important is that it's needed to form helpful friendships and relationships with others. Teach your children that respect allows them to build bridges by giving them fun opportunities to work with teammates and partners toward a mutual (共同的) goal. If they get rude, warn them.
You should control your own negative emotions. Children don't have the argumentative skills that adults do.
| A．You should be patient |
| B．If they keep it up, end the activity |
| C．You should read some stories about respect to your kids |
| D．Using your own behavior to teach your kids needs much time |
| E．The number one place that children learn respect is in the home |
| F．Losing your temper can be a scary, confusing experience for them |
| G．In addition, they naturally look up to their parents and imitate them |
【推荐2】Wouldn’t it be great to spend a few days in the woods walking around and exploring nature?
Stay calm.
Stay positive. Remember that you’re out in the forest for a reason, whether it’s to experience new things, build memories with friends and family, or simply relax and enjoy life. Remembering what brought you to the forest in the first place will help keep your mind positive.
Build a shelter and start a fire. Your first order of business when you lose your way is to build a shelter and start a fire.
| A．Be hurry. |
| B．Be patient. |
| C．Of course, it would, but it’s easy to get lost. |
| D．ackpackers are usually very adventurous types. |
| E．Panic is often what leads you to lose their way in the forest. |
| F．This will help keep you warm and safe throughout the night. |
| G．If you take a positive attitude, chances are much higher that you’ll make it back alive. |
【推荐3】Life isn’t fair. Some people just seem blessed with the ability to effortlessly charm anyone they meet. Well, it might seem like a magical power, but in fact there are a number of factors at work.
But first, the bad news. People initially judge each other based purely on physical appearance. With just a glimpse of a face, people make snap judgments about each other’s likeability, trustworthiness and confidence. How should we deal with this?
What other tricks might we have?
So we’ve looked at body language, but of course what you say is hugely important too, unless you want to just stand there grinning foolishly. The golden rule of friendship is if you make people feel good about themselves, they’re going to like you. In other words, you should not talk about yourself and all your wonderful achievements.
Finally, finding common ground is good to form a connection. Charming people are particularly skilled at seeking out shared interests or experiences to bond with others. Simple things like asking where someone’s from really can open up a discussion and allow you to find areas in common. And if all else fails, you can fall back on that most British of topics: the weather.
| A．It can be a nice start of a conversation. |
| B．Instead, you need to show interest in them. |
| C．There’s one incredibly simple tool: your smile. |
| D．So, can you learn to develop superhuman charm? |
| E．What good tricks can we employ to become charming? |
| F．Shared interests are the key to making connections with others. |
| G．Our brains often survey the environment for friend or enemy signals. |
【推荐1】These 3 Books Are Perfect For Your Back-To-Middle-Schooler
Pham has written and illustrated more than 100 books for kids. Here are three of her favorite reads she recommends for kids heading back to school. The books are all about sort of creating empathy and figuring out how to enter back into the school world in such a crazy time right now.
A High Five for Glenn Burke, by Phil Bildner
It talks about this really special kid named Silas Wade, and he enters the world through baseball and he gets the world excited by baseball. And he's a very special kid because of it. And he uses baseball as a way to come out. And specifically, he uses the story of Glenn Burke, who was this amazing player for the Dodgers (道奇队) way back then, and he was the man who was credited as creating the high five.
The Breadwinner, by Deborah Ellis
It’s a book that feels strangely prescient (有先见之明的), even though it was first published more than 20 years ago. And it's a story of a young Afghan girl named Parvana whose family lives under Taliban rule. And it's really just the remarkable story of the lengths to which Parvana goes to help her family survive. She’s a normal little 11-year-old girl. She's got an older sister who bothers her. She wants to be out in the world, and she can't be. She doesn't understand why she needs to wear this headdress, why she needs to cover herself. She is only allowed out at the age of 11, because she's too young to need to be covered up. So she’s able to go with her father to the marketplace. And that's where the story takes place. Her father was once a professor, once they had this very nice life. One day he's taken by the Taliban, and so she is forced to cut off her own hair and pretend to be a boy to keep her family alive. She doesn't realize she's being a hero. She doesn't realize she's doing anything special. She just knows she has to do this.
New Kid, by Jerry Craft
It’s about a seventh grader named Jordan Banks who loves to draw, and dreams of becoming an artist. But instead of art school, his parents decide to send him to a famous private school focused on academics where he frankly just doesn't fit in. It's almost as though in this story, no one's really a bad guy ... this kid, Jordan Banks, he goes through the school and he doesn't hate anyone. He feels empathy for everyone.
1. What can you infer from the passage?| A．Glenn Burke was an excellent baseball player. |
| B．A High Five for Glenn Burke is a kind of magazine. |
| C．It is Phil Bildner who created the high five. |
| D．Silas Wade has participated in few competitions. |
| A．She couldn’t adapt to her new life. |
| B．She was ambitious to defend her country. |
| C．She was devoted to her family. |
| D．She believed what she had done could save her people from Taliban rule. |
| A．Primary school students. | B．High school students. |
| C．Undergraduates. | D．Graduates. |
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Immediate benefits:
●As a special offer, you may choose any reduced-price books from our new members' book list, to the value of $6 in total (plus postage and packing). By doing this, you will save pounds on the publishers prices.
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●If you reply within seven days, we will send you another free gift carefully chosen from our book list by our staff.
●Order a DVD from the many on offer in our list, at half the recommended retail price.
●When you've joined：
As a member, you'll enjoy savings of between 30% and 50% off the publisher's price on every book you buy, and what's more, they'll come straight to your door. Your free club magazine arrives once a month, to keep you up-to-date with the latest best-sellers. This means that every year we offer over 1,000 books to choose from. On the Internet, you can find all our titles for the year on our exclusive members' website.
Being a member：
All we are asking you to do while you are a member is to choose four books during your first year. After that, you can decide on the number of books you wish to take.
In each of our monthly club magazines, our experienced staff choose a Club Choice book — a work of fiction or a reference title which they feel is particularly worth buying, and which is offered at an extra-special price. However, if you do not want this book, just say so in the space provided on the form. We will always send the book if we do not receive this.
So, return your application form today, but hurry — it's not every day we can make you an offer like this. To apply to become a member, all you need to do is simply fill in the enclosed form and return it in the postage-paid envelope supplied.
Before you know it, your books will be with you. Please don't send any money now, as we will send you your bill with the books. And remember, you have up to a fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered. You should then either return the books or send your payment.
1. Which of the following doesn't belong to the benefits of being a club member?
| A．Get a gift for nothing. |
| B．Order a free watch. |
| C．Get four books for free in the first year. |
| D．Order a DVD at a low price. |
| A．let readers know the number of books to be sold |
| B．attract more and more readers to join the club |
| C．make readers know the club's development |
| D．keep readers well informed of recent best-selling books |
| A．$20. | B．$70. | C．$60. | D．$40. |
| A．express your idea in the space provided in the book |
| B．choose whether to keep them or not after you read them carefully |
| C．decide whether to keep them or not within a certain period of time |
| D．send money to the club at once |
An idea that started in Seattle's public library has spread throughout America and beyond. The concept is simple: help to build a sense of community in a city by getting everyone to read the same book at the same time.
In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求) to be enjoyed by all, the program allows strangers to communicate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as promoting reading as an experience to be shared in families and schools. The idea came from Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched (发起）the "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book " project in 1998. Her original program used author visits, study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hong Kong.
In Chicago, the mayor appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the "One Book, One Chicago" program. As a result, reading clubs and neighbourhood groups sprang up around the city. Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about plot and character.
The only problem arose in New York, where local readers could not decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population. This may show that the idea works best in medium-sized cities or large towns, where a greater sense of unity can be achieved .Or it may show that New Yorkers rather missed the point, putting all their energy and passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.
Ultimately as Nancy points out, the level of success is not measured by how many people read a book, but by how many people are enriched by the process or have enjoyed speaking to someone with whom they would not otherwise have shared a word.
1. What is the purpose of the project launched by Nancy?
| A．To invite authors to guide readers. |
| B．To encourage people to read and share. |
| C．To involve people in community service. |
| D．To promote the friendship between cities. |
| A．In large communities with little sense of unity |
| B．In large cities where libraries are far from home |
| C．In medium-sized cities with a diverse population |
| D．In large towns where agreement can be quickly reached |
| A．exchanged ideas with each other |
| B．discussed the meaning of a word |
| C．gave life experience |
| D．used the same language |
| A．the careful selection of a proper book |
| B．the growing popularity of the writers |
| C．the number of people who benefit from reading. |
| D．the number of books that each person reads. |
