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		<title>There are Reading Games and THEN There are the SATs</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/07/therersquos-reading-games-and-then-therersquos-the-sats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter just finished an academic rights of passage.  She took the SATs.  Or – as I call them – Sad (but necessary) Academic Trauma Test.  Actually, she took the PSAT once, six practice SATs, and then two “the real things.”  Why so many times you ask?  Well, she never practiced free throws and she’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Play A REALLY FUN Reading Game? Make an Apple Pie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, Happy 4th of July! This is a very special day for America. I thank all the troops – past and present – who have allowed our great country to remain the land of the free.  And for the most part coffee drinkers instead of all that tea the British would have us drink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go on a Reading Adventure with your Child</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/05/go-on-a-reading-adventure-with-your-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 02:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a reading activity for you and your child to enjoy.  We start a Sketchy Adventure for the two of you.  What ending do you two imagine? Sketchy&#8217;s Adventure #2 One day, Sketchy went to a parade but could not see above the crowd. So she drew an elephant to sit on, which worked very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why First Grade Reading Is Not Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/04/why-first-grade-reading-is-not-las-vegas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Diana Sharp served as the reading consultant for ItzaBitza and ItzaZoo. Her website is www.dianasharp.com. Unlike the Las Vegas slogan, what happens in first grade doesn’t stay in first grade. Reading in First Grade Matters! A first grader who is frustrated by reading and ends the year with reading failure has an 88%  chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think outside &#8211; and inside &#8211; the book</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/03/think-outside-ndash-and-inside-ndash-the-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Diana Sharp served as the reading consultant for ItzaBitza and ItzaZoo. Her website is www.dianasharp.com. Dear Dr. Sharp: My son’s first grade teacher has been teaching phonics, and he can sound-out words. But he’s very reluctant to go the next step and read sentences, saying it’s “too hard.” I get the easiest books I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Books to Life (or Why I Ate Cricket Cookies)</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/03/bringing-books-to-life-or-why-i-ate-cricket-cookies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Diana Sharp served as the reading consultant for ItzaBitza. Her website is www.dianasharp.com. Dear Dr. Sharp: In your last posting, you described your #1 piece of advice for preschool parents who want their kids to love reading. What’s your #2 suggestion? My next suggestion is: “Do the opposite of Advice #1.” OK, let me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Convince Kids to Read in Their Free Time</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/02/how-to-convince-kids-to-read-in-their-free-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dr. Sharp: Aren’t you afraid that between video games, social networking, and virtual worlds, there’s no way today for books to compete? Even when software like ItzaBitza and ItzaZoo help kids learn to read, how in the world can anyone convince kids to choose reading – just plain old book reading – in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Benefits of Installing Good Reading Habits in Your Child</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/02/491/</link>
		<comments>http://sabigames.com/2010/02/491/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all remember the crusty octogenarian librarian of our youth, hunched over our upturned childish faces, peering down from ancient eyeglasses as she extolled the benefits of reading. As she droned on and on about some dude named Dewey Decimal and the dusty standardized tests of the distant future, your eight-year-old eyes drifted to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Number Lovers: The Case for Reading</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/02/for-number-lovers-the-case-for-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://sabigames.com/2010/02/for-number-lovers-the-case-for-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Sharp has been a key member of the team since we started our passionate journey back at Microsoft to rethink reading practice. Besides being a wonderful human being, she has a very deep knowledge and background on young children’s reading. Dr. Sharp is also an excellent author. We have learned so much from her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How our Reading Games Level Up a Player’s Reading Skill</title>
		<link>http://sabigames.com/2010/01/464/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our games “level up” to three reading levels.  The reading levels were identified by our reading specialist &#8211; Dr. Diana Sharp. A way to support the strengths of beginning readers, and simultaneously prevent frustration, is to offer them text that matches their skill level in terms of how much mental work it takes to translate [...]]]></description>
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