On Family Reading
Monthly columns by Julie Douglas
Julie
Douglas's monthly column On Family Reading is a feature of the
Missouri Humanities Council's free
Newsletter, Missouri Passages.
Julie directs our READ from the START program. A former Kindergarten teacher with fifteen years of classroom experience, Julie is also a published author of children's literature and an experienced workshop designer and trainer of adult parents, writers, and care-providers.
She created literature-based learning activities for use in The Mailbox Magazine, a teacher resource, and self-published a newsletter for primary grade teachers, "The Classroom Mouse." She is the author of A Parent's Guide to St. Louis (Parent's Guide Press).
Before and during her undergraduate education at Truman State University, Julie was a volunteer and summer employee of one of the country's premier living history attractions, Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa.
- The Lines We Remember - March 2008
- Smartening Up With Wordless Books - February 2008
- My Life as a Pioneer (At Living History Farms) - January 2008
- Devoted to Books (How to Select Books for Children - January 2008
- Writing Letters With Children - December 2007
- Why Does the Cat Look Guilty? - November 2007
- The Pleasure of a Good Scare - October 2007
- The Thrill of a New Book - September 2007
- When Love of Books Begins - August 2007
- Humor in Children's Books - July 2007
- Fathers and Books - June 2007
- The Gift of a Reading Mother - May 2007
- Poetry and Children - April 2007
- Creating a Family Storytelling Tradition - March 2007
- Favorite Children's Books of READ from the START Discussion Leaders - February 2007
- Developing a Taste for Great Books - January 2007
- All Aboard ABC and Ways to Extend What's in a Book - December 2006
- Books for Young Readers by Missouri Authors - November 2006
- Baseball Books - October 2006
- Books that Introduce the U.S. Constitution - September 2006
- Developing Identity in Early Childhood - August 2006
- What Makes Someone An "Other?" - July 2006
- The "Dance" of Family Reading - May 2006
- A Young Father's Breakthrough - April 2006
- A Reason to Read - March 2006