by B.L. Unkel | Feb 20, 2021 | History
As an author, I work with words. But until I moved to Tennessee, I never thought about the history of words. I simply accepted their definition at face value. Morning Meal The way some words developed is easy to understand if you think about it. For example, take the...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 5, 2020 | Writing
In August 2019, Samantha Cleaver wrote 7 Surprising Facts About Reading that Prove It All Adds Up for weareteachers.com. The second fact on her list is the importance of children owning their own books. The basis for this claim came from a twenty-year study completed...
by B.L. Unkel | Oct 10, 2020 | History
Literally, the night after I wrote Did You Know You Don’t Have to Die to Be Buried? I read an article about a Detroit funeral home whose morticians found the corpse recently delivered to them wasn’t a corpse at all. She was breathing. EMS arrived—questioning the call,...
by B.L. Unkel | Sep 26, 2020 | Writing
By the end of third grade, if a child isn’t reading on a third-grade level, their reading skills are unlikely to ever catch up to their grade level. Of course, never say never, but . . . Last month as everyone prepared for a new—if uncertain, thanks to Covid—school...
