After being featured at the Southern California Book Publicists' booth at the Festival of Books at USC, Robert Escalante's Scrabble Book 13th Edition was touted by Bo Lebo on James Lowe's radio show on KJAG radio in Kansas talking about literacy, vocabulary development and funding after school and summer tutoring and enrichment studies.
The goal have fun learning words using technology, solving a large social problem and building verbal automaticity...in other words...mastering spelling, reading, meaning, and word roots, suffixes, and sources.
At First Five's Glendale conference last month, Dr. Dana Suskind is promoting her initiative and Penguin's new release promoting language arts, cognitive research applied to a fantastic future for our kids, economy and parents. "Language is power and at the heart of the achievement gap today". Bob's new edition playfully addresses Dr. Suskind's outcry for innovation and from cochlear implants......to the Scrabble book the Internet has brought us social media as a vocabulary tool solution to language development.
We don't have to be deaf to words. We can use our phones and scrabble boards or words with friends as innovations to help children, parents, grandparents, families make vocabulary gains.
With this new Lulu book, and social media, families, teachers, students, and teachers can gain a new socialness...when hanging with your child the gains can be enhancing verbal engagement, awareness, experience, and verbalizing to learn verbs, nouns, adverbs, adjectives...descriptors....something that equals the playing field in the 30 million word gap between birth and entrance into kindergarten. You can watch these terrific videos and go out and buy this vital 440 plus page referrence book. From Barbara Bush to Bunce and Riseley and from Hart to Marzano, Suskind, and Pinker, you can discover the fun of being able to make meaning and have a way to describe it and along the way you can beat a friend and stimulate others to see the value of words and fund children's summer and after school programs for Kids First of So Cal in Los Angeles while making gains for summer recreational reading. Side by side with a novel, comic book or audio book, a dictionary, or a thesaursus, you might excel at reading with a child or a teen and become a great lifelong learner, spur dinner conversations, and have fun getting "Caught reading", "Caught listening", "Caught speaking"...riding yourself of lifelong fears, developing neuroplasticity, and developing an enriched verbal environment that will help writing, comprehension, and function whether for a lovely life, school success, or unlimited ability to learn new skills that when fortified lead to career success and the ability to give voice to experience and wonder to sharing.
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Ted Talk on increased engagement (Yale):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42UV8Y620qA
Building young brains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP_wu7GuP60
Hear the Show (Jiggy Jaguar Show from James Lowe):
http://recordings.talkshoe.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/TC-81009/TS-1247593.mp3
Buy the Book:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/rob-escalante/scrabble/paperback/product-23627627.html
Donate directly, we need your help now:
www.kidsfirst.la
Write us for talks, presentations, and arts in education teacher interventions and shows:
bo@kidsfirst.la
Get Caught Reading:
http://www.getcaughtreading.org/
CDE info that will lead back to CPIN, "Sing, talk and Read", and full family engagement:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/re/ececomps.asp