In The Classroom: Reading Aloud Redux

In the latest Notes from the Horn Book, Richard Peck is very opinionated about teachers reading aloud his books:

4. You talk a lot with young readers. What are they telling you?

Things they didn't mean to. Over and over they're telling me that the books I wrote for them to read are being read to them by their teachers. And hearing a story read doesn't seem to expand their vocabularies. If a teacher is going to take limited classroom time in reading aloud (and even giving away the ending), the...