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into your own “chapters.” Preschoolers can enjoy picture books that are divided into chapters, like Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner and The Josefina Story Quilt by Eleanor Coerr. Then I’d do a collection of stories in one volume about one family. One of the best is All About Alfie by Shirley Hughes, a collection of four stories
family. Nobody has a better handle on young families than Shirley Hughes.
Don’t Want to Go! and Bobbo Goe...
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hearing hundreds of picture books and novels like Beverly Cleary’s Ramona books, lots of Roald Dahl, and The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo.
My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris; Nurse, Soldier, Spy by Marissa Moss; Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown; POP! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy; Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson; and The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle by Don Wulffson. They are entertaining, informative, and, unlike textbooks, never dull.
Book Lust,
bowdlerize
Do not turn discussions into quizzes or
Use plenty of expression when reading. If possible, change your tone of voice to fit the dialogue.
The most common mistake in reading aloud—whether the reader is a seven-year-old or a forty-year-old—is reading too fast.
“Don’t Forget Your Flood Book.”
The Power of Reading,
Where you maintain strong reward factors and lower the number of difficulties, you will see a higher frequency of reading.
I should also note that the Three B’s (books, book baskets, and bed lamps) I mentioned earlier are invaluable to the success of family SSR.
surgical hospital (MASH) and became one of the world’s leading heart specialists, was required to read a book a week as a child.
“Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.”
creating fluent readers than the classics would? Definitely.
The Adventures of Tintin.
Deconstructing Penguins
The Breadwinner
Junie B. Jones books are creative fiction,
Lois Lowry’s Gooney Bird Greene,
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(which means you should clear or weed spaces at eye level for displaying books).
The lesson here is to display the cover as often as possible.
schools used the rain gutter shelving idea, go to www.trelease-on-reading.com/oliver.html.)
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle being force-fed to
Voices of Readers: How We Come to Love Books,
searches, while ignoring options like Google Scholar or Google Book Search.
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn,
It is not so much what children are doing while they watch multiple hours of TV; it is the experiences they are not having that make the viewing so dangerous.
Again and again, he points to two things: his mother’s religion (Seventh-Day Adventist) and the pivotal moment when she limited their television viewing and ordered him to start reading.
Mrs. Carson didn’t trash the set—she controlled it, and (2) with high expectations of her children, she demanded appropriate behavior from them.
Before looking at the recommended dosage, it’s important to understand that the greatest academic damage may be in what is not being done during those thirty-one
Over the years the plan was modified until it worked like this: 1. The television is turned off at supper time and not turned on again until the children are in bed, Monday through Thursday. 2. Each child is allowed to watch one school-night show a week (subject to parents’ approval). Homework and chores must be finished beforehand. 3. Weekend television is limited to any two of the three nights. The remaining night is reserved for homework and other activities. The children make their selections separately.
It stands to reason that moderate doses of captioned television can do no harm to students, and most likely it will help greatly with reading.
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“The Problem with Boys…Is Actually a Problem with Men.”
the men who are supposed to raise boys—-fathers.
a “boy-man,” whereas the father who can find his way to a ball game and to the library or
Here are four picture books from the list: Captain Abdul’s Pirate School by Colin McNaughton, How FAST Is It? by Ben Hillman, The Secret Shortcut by Mark Teague, and Snip Snap! What’s That? by Mara Bergman.
titled Six Men by David McKee,
For older children, try the short novel Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. Check out Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Dip anyplace into Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for Kids Only! You’ll be surprised at what you’ve been missing all these years. I’ll bet you missed David Lubar’s short story “Kid Appeal” in Guys Read: Funny Business, a humor collection for boys. Here’s one paragraph:
Personal interest can be a powerful driving force with boys, whether that interest is sports, auto repair, model racing, war, music, or computers.
guys are drawn more to what interests them, not what interests the crowd. That
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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