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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they're reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors-that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher {or librarian} who doesn't read much will fail for sure.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head-by reading.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?"Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.
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Jim Trelease _ The Read-Aloud Handbook
Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.
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