The Z house is where stories grow up – the real ones,
the made-up ones and the ones in-between.

Recent Blog Entries

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  • Visit Storyline Online for Good Storytelling
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  • Is picting replacing words in our digital age – is this the new literacy?
  • Storyline Online: As Fast As Words Could Fly
  • What you might not know about readability testing
  • Book-Rich Environments Initiative to benefit children
  • Add fake news to the list of challenges for children: telling fact from fiction
  • When your cat tells you it’s time and she means it … a tribute to BJ
  • Pre-K to K-3 transitions: what can states do?
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  • Sign Language for Babies & Young Children
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  • Should your child enroll in a dual language program?
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  • How should reading literacy be measured? PISA thinks globally …

    • Holly K. Zanville, Ph.D.

    With over 35 years of working in the education field, Holly Zanville is an author of children’s books known as the Z House Stories. Her books tell stories about the people and animals who live in the Z house. Holly blogs at Z House Stories about reading to children — and adults too.

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