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From: Dipesh Navsaria <dipesh>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:49:18 -0500
I'm getting in on this conversation late (which seems to be the story of my life these days), but...
Reading aloud is marvelous. I'm currently enjoying reading more complex narratives to my kids (5.5 and 4.5 years old). It feels like it was not that long ago that they wouldn't tolerate books with long passages of text and (relatively) few pictures. However, I recently read them "The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys" and they were spellbound. I'm starting to pull other books in a similar format
(mostly text, a few pictures) to take this further with them.
Reading aloud is one of the elements we promote in Reach Out and Read: I always enjoy the look on parents' faces when they see their children listening with rapt attention to a volunteer reader in the waiting room -- this just after the parents have usually claimed that their children wouldn't sit still for a book. :-)
Reading aloud is probably the centerpiece of the project we're on the verge of kicking off at the Meriter Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit in Madison. There, we'll have a collection of books (already in place, actually) with our nursing staff encouraging parents and family members to read aloud to their newborns. We know the sounds of parents' voices are soothing to newborns, and it gives parents something constructive to do during those endless days of waiting for their preemies to become infants that they can do "something" with -- even just feed, hold, and touch. Voice may be the only tangible connection they have with their child, and by offering books as a conduit, it can (I hope) make a difference to their relationship at a critical time.
I always read a story aloud to my audience when I talk about books, reading, and influences on child health and development. Everyone deserves to be read to -- even grownups. ;-)
Peace and Prosperity, Dipesh
-<*>---------------------------------------<*>- Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MS(LIS), MD Resident Physician, Pediatrics Occasional Children's Librarian Madison, Wisconsin, USA e-mail: dipesh at navsaria.com web/blog: http://www.navsaria.com
Received on Sun 09 Mar 2008 05:49:18 PM CDT
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:49:18 -0500
I'm getting in on this conversation late (which seems to be the story of my life these days), but...
Reading aloud is marvelous. I'm currently enjoying reading more complex narratives to my kids (5.5 and 4.5 years old). It feels like it was not that long ago that they wouldn't tolerate books with long passages of text and (relatively) few pictures. However, I recently read them "The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys" and they were spellbound. I'm starting to pull other books in a similar format
(mostly text, a few pictures) to take this further with them.
Reading aloud is one of the elements we promote in Reach Out and Read: I always enjoy the look on parents' faces when they see their children listening with rapt attention to a volunteer reader in the waiting room -- this just after the parents have usually claimed that their children wouldn't sit still for a book. :-)
Reading aloud is probably the centerpiece of the project we're on the verge of kicking off at the Meriter Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit in Madison. There, we'll have a collection of books (already in place, actually) with our nursing staff encouraging parents and family members to read aloud to their newborns. We know the sounds of parents' voices are soothing to newborns, and it gives parents something constructive to do during those endless days of waiting for their preemies to become infants that they can do "something" with -- even just feed, hold, and touch. Voice may be the only tangible connection they have with their child, and by offering books as a conduit, it can (I hope) make a difference to their relationship at a critical time.
I always read a story aloud to my audience when I talk about books, reading, and influences on child health and development. Everyone deserves to be read to -- even grownups. ;-)
Peace and Prosperity, Dipesh
-<*>---------------------------------------<*>- Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MS(LIS), MD Resident Physician, Pediatrics Occasional Children's Librarian Madison, Wisconsin, USA e-mail: dipesh at navsaria.com web/blog: http://www.navsaria.com
Received on Sun 09 Mar 2008 05:49:18 PM CDT
