The most amazing commercial...

A friend of mine sent this video to me in an attachment. I just had to post it and I'm sure we can figure out the literacy connections later...

Do you know your alphabet?

I bet that if you set this alphabet in front of any kid, he or she would be able to identify each of these brands. I dare any grown-up to try this ...

Kanye Gave 'Em Something to Write About!

I am not a fan of Kanye West. At all. It was nothing short of amazing, however, that after his deplorable behaviour on the MTV Video Music Awards, kids everywhere had an awful lot to write about. Blogs were rolling and Twitter was tweeting. It was an amazing time to be online to witness real time reactions to an incident that people were so interested in. Granted, in the grand scheme of things, Kayne West's dissing of Taylor Swift (as unfortunate as it was because no one deserves that kind of humiliation on television) made no real impact on anyone or anything, but it just goes to show that if given something that is immediately relevant, kids WILL write.