A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, The Read-Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategies—and the reasoning behind them—for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.
This book discusses the benefits, the rewards, and the importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation.
Now, in Real Boys' Voices, Pollack lets us hear what boys today are saying, even as he explores ways to get them to talk more openly with us.
The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.
Teammates by Peter Golenbock, illustrated by Paul Bacon (Gulliver Books: 1990) (M) Read to baseball lovers, who also love heroes, history, and feeling a sense of justice. Good for an older child, who may have heard about the history of ...
Vocabulary is enhanced, of course, when kids read to themselves, but it's even better when they are read to. That's because their listening comprehension level is higher than their reading comprehension level.
You have always read it to me in Spanish . " I explained to him that as I read the book I would translate into Spanish , because that is the language we had chosen for him as a baby . Q : When you had your second child , did you find it ...
Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative ...
In this remarkable resource, Maria Walther shares two-page read-aloud experiences for 101 picture books that tune you into what to notice, say, and wonder in order to bolster students’ literacy exponentially.
As adults we use phonics whenever we encounter an unfamiliar , multisyllabic word , or we spell a word incorrectly . For instance , I can never spell Wollongong . The first time I type it I get too many o's or l's in it : Wollongongong ...
A collection of fairy tales, folklore, and famous stories from around the world arranged for reading aloud.