Read-Aloud Handbook : Sixth Edition,9780143037392

Read-Aloud Handbook : Sixth Edition

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Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780143037392
ISBN10: 0143037390
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-07-25
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

For more than two 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 Handbookimparts 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 Handbookoffers 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.

Author Biography

Jim Trelease is the editor of two anthologies, Read All About It! and Hey! Listen to This, and the author of the one that started it all, The Read-Aloud Handbook. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction xi
Why Read Aloud?
1(22)
When to Begin (and End) Read-Aloud
23(26)
The Stages of Read-Aloud
49(26)
The Dos and Don'ts of Read-Aloud
75(6)
Sustained Silent Reading: Reading Aloud's Natural Partner
81(23)
In Their Own Words
104(13)
The Print Climate in the Home, School, and Library
117(20)
Lessons from Oprah, Harry, and the Internet
137(20)
TV, Audio, and Technology: Hurting or Helping Literacy?
157(20)
Treasury of Read-Alouds
177(116)
How to Use the Treasury
177(2)
Wordless Books
179(1)
Predictable Books
179(2)
Reference Books
181(1)
Picture Books
182(41)
Short Novels
223(15)
Full-Length Novels
238(44)
Poetry
282(4)
Anthologies
286(3)
Fairy and Folk Tales
289(4)
Notes 293(26)
Bibliography 319(6)
Subject Index for the Text 325(10)
Author-Illustrator Index for the Treasury 335

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