<html><head><base href="x-msg://3027/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Right on. Heard some great data from a Prof from UVA called David Grissmer. Turns out that fine motor skills and general knowledge at kindergarten are better predictors of 4th and 8th grade reading than is k-garten reading. And there were 20,000 kids in the sample he used. k<br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Susan Linn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">CCFC was sent this youtube video by Jim Gill (<a href="mailto:jimgill@jimgill.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">jimgill@jimgill.com</a>) who leads workshops connecting play and early literacy. I thought you all would enjoy it, especially after the first few minutes—and that those of you with students might find it useful as a teaching tool. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; "><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2NsY8XASo" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2NsY8XASo</a><br><br></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Susan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></p><pre style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Susan Linn<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Director, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">CCFC: Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood<br><a href="mailto:ccfc@commercialfreechildhood.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">ccfc@commercialfreechildhood.org</a><br><a href="http://commercialfreechildhood.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org</a><br>Visit CCFC on <a href="http://bit.ly/c89BWW" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/commercialfree" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Twitter</a>!<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><o:p> </o:p></pre></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit this group at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en</a>.<br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>
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