Are E-Books Helping or Hurting Children's Literacy?
A mother stopped me after a parent evening last spring. Her daughter had started reading on a tablet, and she felt vaguely guilty about it. "It's still reading,...
Merve Talmaç brings a distinctive combination of child development training and literary expertise to her writing. She holds a vocational diploma in Child Development and Education, a Bachelor's degree in Turkish Language and Literature from Atatürk University, and a Master's degree in Modern Turkish Literature from Atatürk University and Erzurum Technical University.
As a practicing Turkish Language and Literature teacher at a public high school, Merve understands the pivotal role that language, storytelling, and reading play in a child's cognitive and emotional development. As a mother of a school-age son, she writes from the intersection of professional knowledge and lived parenting experience.
Her articles focus on language development, early literacy, the school-age transition, and how literature and storytelling can strengthen the parent-child bond.
A mother stopped me after a parent evening last spring. Her daughter had started reading on a tablet, and she felt vaguely guilty about it. "It's still reading,...
A girl in my class last year asked if she could go to the library alone during break. She was nine. The librarian was right down the hall, the distance barely t...
My son came home from school at 3:15. By 3:20, he was outside, digging a channel in the garden with a stick, narrating a flood rescue mission to nobody in parti...
Something happens around third or fourth grade. The child who once begged for "one more chapter" at bedtime starts leaving books half-finished on the nightstand...
Between ages one and three, your toddler's vocabulary explodes from a handful of words to hundreds—sometimes even a thousand or more. This rapid expansion doesn...