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From: James Elliott <libraryjim>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:59:21 -0500 (EST)
Sorry to keep posting, but I keep thinking of things to say!
My son (age 13, who also started off as a slow reader, and is now BEYOND grade reading level)) and I tried an experiment a few months ago:
We took the book "The Anybodies" by N. E. Bode (a pen name of an FSU English professor!!!), and read it aloud. The twist was that we'd alternate reading on the pages. I'd read page 1, he'd read page 2, I'd read page 3, etc. It went quite well, we did about a chapter a night. But after chapter 3, we'd both gotten quite tired of the concept, and so he read ahead on his own -- but not aloud.
Try it sometime. It's funny to do especially when one of you forgets and keeps reading into the next page -- "Hey, it's my turn!", sentence breaks don't count, if it's on the next page, it's the next persons turn!
By the way, there are some great commercials running on talk radio. An exciting paragraph or so of an audio version of a YA novel (Paulsen's "Hatchet" is one in rotation) is played and then suddenly stopped, while the announcer continues "IF you would like to see what happens next, pick up the book "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. Neat-o!
Jim Elliott
----- Original Message ----- From: Jean Hildreth <jhildreth at luxcasco.k12.wi.us> To: Celeste Steward <csteward at aclibrary.org> Cc: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:40:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Old is New Again
Celeste,
What if teachers, at least in grades K through grade 8, read aloud from a book of their choice on at least one occasion a week....even a single chapter? (It's amazing how many devout middle school "non-readers" become quite intrigued with a book which is enthusiastically read aloud to them. Many of today's kids have little experience of the oral mode without the visual, which allows much more freeplay of the imagination.)
Received on Tue 26 Feb 2008 03:59:21 PM CST
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:59:21 -0500 (EST)
Sorry to keep posting, but I keep thinking of things to say!
My son (age 13, who also started off as a slow reader, and is now BEYOND grade reading level)) and I tried an experiment a few months ago:
We took the book "The Anybodies" by N. E. Bode (a pen name of an FSU English professor!!!), and read it aloud. The twist was that we'd alternate reading on the pages. I'd read page 1, he'd read page 2, I'd read page 3, etc. It went quite well, we did about a chapter a night. But after chapter 3, we'd both gotten quite tired of the concept, and so he read ahead on his own -- but not aloud.
Try it sometime. It's funny to do especially when one of you forgets and keeps reading into the next page -- "Hey, it's my turn!", sentence breaks don't count, if it's on the next page, it's the next persons turn!
By the way, there are some great commercials running on talk radio. An exciting paragraph or so of an audio version of a YA novel (Paulsen's "Hatchet" is one in rotation) is played and then suddenly stopped, while the announcer continues "IF you would like to see what happens next, pick up the book "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. Neat-o!
Jim Elliott
----- Original Message ----- From: Jean Hildreth <jhildreth at luxcasco.k12.wi.us> To: Celeste Steward <csteward at aclibrary.org> Cc: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:40:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Old is New Again
Celeste,
What if teachers, at least in grades K through grade 8, read aloud from a book of their choice on at least one occasion a week....even a single chapter? (It's amazing how many devout middle school "non-readers" become quite intrigued with a book which is enthusiastically read aloud to them. Many of today's kids have little experience of the oral mode without the visual, which allows much more freeplay of the imagination.)
Received on Tue 26 Feb 2008 03:59:21 PM CST
