WSU Cougar Football players Alex Brink (left) and Jed Collins read “The Story of Ferdinand” to local school children Thursday morning as a part of the Read for the Record campaign sponsored by Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe. The national campaign was started by Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization that raises money to support early education programs for underserved children. […]
Michael Dunn spent much of last summer drawing, reading, writing and laughing with children at his Thirsty Thinkers workshop. His goal was literacy education research. His plan was to encourage the elementary students to successfully write a story by first imagining the story, then illustrating it with drawings or sculptures and finally translating those illustrations […]
Terrell Young’s goal is to learn each college student’s name by the first day of class. And his interest continues long after they’ve graduated and have classrooms of their own. “I think that involvement is very important,” said the associate professor of teaching and learning at WSU Tri-Cities. “I hear regularly from dozens of my […]
Mary Roe, professor of literacy education, sees her new summer reading program — in which her teacher-education students tutor Pullman school children — as a “triangle of learning opportunities.” First, tutoring will help children to become better readers and more successful students. Second, Roe’s students, who are future teachers enrolled at the College of Education, […]
The spring WSU Tri-Cities Reading Series will feature one of the state’s premier poets, Sam Hamill, on Friday, April 7 at 8 p.m. in the East Building Auditorium on the north Richland campus. The event is free and open to the public.The author of more than 14 books of poetry and translations, Hamill has received […]
WSU Vancouver will host “Many voices, one nation, one night @ your library,” an engaging evening in which community members are invited to join faculty and staff in reading aloud from book passages that represent the community’s rich heritage, on Monday, April 3 at 7 p.m. in the Library Building, Room 100.Faculty, staff and students will […]
WSU Department of English will kick off the fall literary reading series with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrom. Lunstrum will read from her book, “This Life She’s Chosen,” a collection of short fiction published by Chronicle Books in 2005. “This Life She’s Chosen” is Lundstrom’s first book and was selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great […]
Critically acclaimed American author Dorothy Allison will be at the Washington State University Pullman campus for a literary reading and book signing at 7:30 p.m. on March 30 in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the WSU Department of English 2004-2005 Visiting Writer’s Series with […]
The Washington State University Department of English will get its spring reading series underway March 1 with a reading by faculty member Linda Kittell.The 7:30 p.m. event will be in the Museum of Art/WSU, co-sponsor of the event. The reading is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.Kittell, a WSU faculty member […]
For Christmas, Cindy Ellis, information technology systems specialist at Holland/New Library, will give her daughters and their families one of the gifts she most loves — the book “Miracle on 34th Street.” That’s right; not the movie, the book. “The book and the film were developed at the same time, in 1947,” Ellis said. “I, […]