Using Rhyming Picture Books to Improve Reading

<blockquote>Great readers have many skills to help them decode unfamiliar words. The ability to identify rhyming words can help students read more easily and efficiently. Rhyming picture books are a great resource for second language instruction. The easy rhyming text makes it easy to teach reading. Using picture books to teach words that rhyme help students improve their reading.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Great readers have many skills to help them decode unfamiliar words. The ability to identify rhyming words can help students read more easily and efficiently. Rhyming picture books are a great resource for second language instruction. The easy rhyming text makes it easy to teach reading. Using picture books to teach words that rhyme help students improve their reading.</blockquote>
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The Power of the Mind: Reduce Your Fear of Public Speaking

Lisa Braithwaite has shared her experiences with panic attacks and anxiety on her blog. I admire her candour, and am thankful she shared her experiences, because this sort of story encourages those who feel trapped by the condition. I went through a similar time - panic attcks and anxiety, and certainly would not recommend it.

But in this particular article Lisa has given us all a new way of looking at the situation, especially as it applies to public speaking, with some incredibly powerful tools to use.

If our mind is powerful enough to create fear from “nothing,” it’s also powerful enough to reframe our thoughts to propel us forward in a positive way. There have been many books written about the power of positive thinking – the most well-known of these is Norman Vincent Peale’s, first published over 50 years ago. Recent medical research shows, for example, that a positive expectation of a medication has real measurable physical effects (not just the psychological “placebo effect”) on our health.

How does this apply to you as a public speaker? You can control the amount of fear and anxiety you experience around public speaking. You have the power to turn negative and fearful thoughts into positive ones. How do you do it?

Here's how ...

Stories

Generosity

Mahatma Gandhi went from city to city, village to village collecting funds for the Charkha Sangh.

During one of his tours he addressed a meeting in Orissa. After his speech a poor old woman got up. She was bent with age, her hair was grey and her clothes were in tatters. The volunteers tried to stop her, but she fought her way to the place where Gandhiji was sitting. "I must see him," she insisted and going up to Gandhiji touched his feet.

Then from the folds of her sari she brought out a copper coin and placed it at his feet. Gandhiji picked up the copper coin and put it away carefully.

The Charkha Sangh funds were under the charge of Jamnalal Bajaj. He asked Gandhiji for the coin but Gandhiji refused. "I keep cheques worth thousands of rupees for the Charkha Sangh," Jamnalal Bajaj said laughingly "yet you won't trust me with a copper coin."

"This copper coin is worth much more than those thousands," Gandhiji said. "If a man has several lakhs and he gives away a thousand or two, it doesn't mean much. But this coin was perhaps all that the poor woman possessed. She gave me all she had. That was very generous of her. What a great sacrifice she made. That is why I value this copper coin more than a crore of rupees."

This story was published at http://www.indianchild.com/inspiring_stories.htm
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funny quotations, humour, inspiration, open mind, social skills, thought for the day

"The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious."
-- Gardner Murphy

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Happiness, videos

Beautiful quotations on life, peace, the mind

attitude, motivation, Success

Positive attitude may be the next performance drug

Most of the time, luger Chris Mazdzer can't wipe the Cheshire-cat grin off his face. He's simply a happy guy. Turns out that his positive attitude could be a performance-enhancing drug that, thankfully, is 100% legal.

"I'm pretty jolly," says Mazdzer, who has been a national and junior national champion. "I have that type of personality. I never really get down on anything. When I do, there's something seriously wrong."

According to Trent Petrie, a sports psychologist and the director of the Center for Sport Psychology at the University of North Texas, a positive attitude goes hand-in-hand with confidence.

Thought for the Day

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

Abraham Maslow

powerpoint, Public speaking

Presenting to Teach and Inform — PowerPoint for Education & Training

You are invited to a training webinar.
.... presented by Ellen Finkelstein.

....Wednesday, February 24th at 11am PT, 12n MT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET

Ellen Finkelstein delivers high content in everything she does. She explains her material simply, demonstrates and provides follow-up support after the event.

At the end of this webinar, you'll know how to:

Present so your students understand and remember
Avoid the common, deadly mistake that ensures that your students won't hear what you're saying
Avoid the ineffective way of putting images on a slide and use the effective way
Use animation in a way that's helpful, not harmful to learning
Apply simple principles for maximizing educational results

Here’s what you'll learn about: