Archive for April, 2010
It Takes Just One
Besides “how do I finish my bookmarks,” another question I often hear is “how can I get involved?” Just as there are a gazillion answers to the first question, there are a gazillion answers to the second. Don’t worry, I’m not going to give you my gazillion answers here. Instead, I’m going to introduce you [...]
Barb’s Reading Roundup
Guess what! Stitching for Literacy has two children’s book professionals guest-blogging during the 2010 Bookmark Challenge. They’ve chosen some of their favorite books to share with us. Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem Written by Mac Barnett Illustrated by Adam Rex Billy Twitters’ parents threaten a singularly unusual punishment when he doesn’t clean his [...]
Bookmark Tips
I’m not finished with last week’s window bookmarks, so nothing to share on that front…yet! The card stock theme continues, though, with a tip from Gayle at Accents, Inc. in Metairie, LA (read: New Orleans). Gayle has participated in the Stitching for Literacy Bookmark Challenge since Day One. She also pitches in behind-the-scenes, tirelessly helping, [...]
Creating Creatives, Part 6
At the Peak of Things by Linda Stanek The highest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy is Evaluation. Here, students appraise, compare, defend (yes, defend) and evaluate their work. But it doesn’t stop there. Creatives are forever cycling back through the upper echelons of the model—back to Analysis—how could it be different? How could it be better? [...]
Extreme Reader
Welcome to our Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher series where we profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. Meet Kat Rocha: There are a few authors I will pre-order or try to buy the day a new bookcomes out. In the middle of the Harry Potter craze, J. K. Rowling [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
A bookmark by Bev. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~Francis Bacon What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, “The Premise of Meaning,” American Scholar, 5 June [...]
Stitching for Literacy All Year Long
A bookmark from Pine Glen Designs. They offer a number of complimentary bookmark patterns. Check them out! This is year four for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy annual Bookmark Challenge. The Bookmark Challenge event was designed to coordinate with Children’s Book Week, offering schools and libraries bookmarks they could use as awards and [...]
“But I Don’t Stitch…”
Bookmark from Bolivia Boutique. Read on for details. Believe it or not, we have a number of non-stitchers amongst us here on the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy blog. Some are family members, personal friends, reading enthusiasts, writers, educators, and library media specialists. A few are probably just lost. All kind folks are welcome [...]
Suzy’s Reading Roundup
Guess what! Stitching for Literacy has two children’s book professionals guest-blogging during the 2010 Bookmark Challenge. They’ve chosen some of their favorite books to share with us. The Quiet Book Written by Deborah Underwood Illustrated by Renata Liwska “Making a wish quiet.” “Top of the roller coaster quiet.” Underwood’s extraordinary picture book illuminates all types [...]
Bookmark Tips
I can’t help it, really I can’t. I made a list of ideas for the Bookmark Tips series before I decided to run the series, but I haven’t been using it. The card stock frenzy has taken over. You know those window cards (greeting cards) made out of card stock where you adhere needlework between [...]
