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  Linda Spears-Bunton, Ph.D.Florida International UniversityCollege of Education Let me begin by saying that when talking about learning to read at an early age,means beginning at birth. If I had my way, every child would come home from thehospital with a small library of lovingly selected children’s books. Like oral,language, which linguists have demonstrated can be observed within about 12hours of birth, infants mimic the mouth movements of adults—doing what we alldo—holding our face close to baby’s, making sounds –-almost instinctively in thehigh pitched tonal frequency babies can hear, and saying words—sometimesnonsense, sometimes not. The point is, babies and their...

  By Dr. Debbra LindoSuperintendent, Emeritus As a retired English teacher, Superintendent of Schools, parent and grandparent Iwas delighted to be introduced to Dr. Grace Carroll’s new children’s book series onliterary devices. The first book in the series, Akira’s Animal Alphabet Alliterations,disrupts one’s thinking about the perceived difficulty children might have in conceptmastery, particularly in grasping complex literary terms. Au contraire, this bookseries makes reading and learning truly enjoyable. The Oxford dictionary defines alliteration as, “the occurrence of the same letter orsound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words, as in, “Peter Piperpicked a peck of pickled peppers…”...