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From: edie.ching at verizon.net <edie.ching>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:28:08 -0600 (CST)
In my early days on the job as a librarian, I discoverd that Miracle on 34th Street was really a book first and decided to read it aloud at the dinner table to my family (one non reading husband, 3 teen-age children) during the month of December. They moaned and groaned and decided I was taking my job much too seriously. But one night, when I decided to just give up and not bore them any longer, they became incensed that I wasn't going to "finish the story" and so I did. I think you can try reading aloud at any time..it is a wonderful bonding experience and a very personal one. And it also a great way to "get through" a difficult reading assignment when your children are older. I had a friend who read her children Shakespeare all through high school and when they came home from college on breaks. Edie Ching St Albans School
Ross Smith Niagara Falls
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Edith Ching Washington Children's Book Guild President Librarian, St. Albans School
If she...had known how long he first haf-inch beginning to let go would take--and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight--would she have begun?
Annie Dillard
Received on Fri 29 Feb 2008 12:28:08 PM CST
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:28:08 -0600 (CST)
In my early days on the job as a librarian, I discoverd that Miracle on 34th Street was really a book first and decided to read it aloud at the dinner table to my family (one non reading husband, 3 teen-age children) during the month of December. They moaned and groaned and decided I was taking my job much too seriously. But one night, when I decided to just give up and not bore them any longer, they became incensed that I wasn't going to "finish the story" and so I did. I think you can try reading aloud at any time..it is a wonderful bonding experience and a very personal one. And it also a great way to "get through" a difficult reading assignment when your children are older. I had a friend who read her children Shakespeare all through high school and when they came home from college on breaks. Edie Ching St Albans School
Ross Smith Niagara Falls
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Edith Ching Washington Children's Book Guild President Librarian, St. Albans School
If she...had known how long he first haf-inch beginning to let go would take--and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight--would she have begun?
Annie Dillard
Received on Fri 29 Feb 2008 12:28:08 PM CST
