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From: David Harrison <davidlharrison1_at_att.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:05:04 -0600
Regarding the importance of reading to children at home, preschool children in particular:
In my work associated with Drury University's School of Education and Child Development, I'm chairing a project called Family Voices. As we know from national surveys, fewer than half of today's children five and under are read to at home on a regular basis. When neither parent graduated from high school, the percentage drops to 36% and, for families living at or below the poverty level, only 32% of preschool children are read to routinely.
Family Voices has recorded a number of well-known people in this area, each reading a picture book selected by children's librarians. In December we will mount a campaign to record the voices of parents of preschool children reading a story to be added to the collection. The entire library of stories will then be saved on a personalized CD and given to the parents along with a free book for each child in the family who is five years old or under. Our goal is to eventually reach a high percentage of the 8,000 - 10,000 preschool children in this community. By doing this, we hope to help increase awareness of how important it is to read to children on a daily basis during the critical learning years prior to starting school. In families that struggle to find time and resources to accomplish this, we will give them a CD library of 33 stories that their children can listen to even if Mom or Dad can't take the time to do the reading.
Thanks to the sponsorship of Springfield's Gannett paper, News-Leader, and to area Borders and Barnes & Noble stores who are offering children's books at a discount for Family Voices, we will hold a month-long book drive during December to increase the quantity of books we can give to families who participate in the project.
Here's a list of the books that will appear on the CD. A family with a DVD player can play the CD. For families without the means to play their CD, Family Voices will provide information for obtaining inexpensive players.
1. Baby Dance the Polka by Karen Beaumont 2. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle 3. Cha Cha Chimps by Julie Durango 4. Cows in the Kitchen by June Crebbin 5. Daddy Hugs 123 by Karen Katz 6. If You’re Happy and You Know It by James Warhola 7. Duck on a Bike by David Shannon 8. Little Gorilla by Ruth Bornstein 9. Who Will Tuck Me In Tonight? by Carol Roth 10. Time For Bed by Mem Fox 11. When Cows Come Home by David L. Harrison 12. Hi Pizza Man! By Virginia Wallters 13. Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle 14. I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont 15. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff 16. How Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by Jane Yolen 17. Five Little Monkeys Sitting In a Tree by Eileen Christelow 18. This Little Chick by John Lawrence 19. The Napping House by Audrey Wood 20. Mrs Nauch Hangs Out Her Wash by Sarah Weeks 21. Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells 22. Silly Sally by Audrey Wood 23. The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone 24. Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown 25. The
Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 26. The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins 27. Three Little Pigs 28. Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard 29. Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst 30. Humpty Dumpty, Hey Diddle Diddle, Little Miss Muffet, Itsy Bitsy Spider 31. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 32. Piggy Wiglet by David L. Harrison
I welcome comments. David Harrison http://davidlharrison.com
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Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 12:09 AM To: ccbc-net digest recipients Subject: ccbc-net digest: November 06, 2010
CCBC-NET Digest for Saturday, November 06, 2010.
1. picture books twenty minutes a day 2. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 3. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 4. RE: Picture book twenty minutes a day 5. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 6. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 7. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 8. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 9. Re: A Paucity of Picture Books 10. RE: Cost of Picture Books 11. Re: Cost of Picture Books 12. Re: Price of picture books 13. Re: Cost of Picture Books 14. Picture books 15. Cost of Picture Books 16. Picture Books
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Subject: picture books twenty minutes a day From: Lisa Von Drasek Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:31:17 -0400 X-Message-Number: 1
So many teachers and parents have fallen in love with "twenty minutes a day" The average picture book read aloud is five to 10 minutes. How many of us have witnessed a parent trying to corral an active three year old to sit for one more story. I try to assure parents that the twenty minutes a day didn't need to be in a row.
If I recall from Reading Magic... Mem recommends three a day.
Lisa
Lisa Von Drasek Children's Librarian Bank Street College of Education School for Children Pre-K- 8 610 West 112th St NY NY 10025
lisav_at_bnkst.edu
212 875 4452
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Subject: Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: Lynn Rutan Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:40:38 -0400 X-Message-Number: 2
Like many things in eduction, a good idea - reading with your child - has ended up being mandated and sometimes abused. The problem isn't the idea of course, it is how we help parents and, sadly sometimes teachers, understand how that glorious and impactive practice can best be implemented.
Of course children who read become better readers and I know that 20 minute a day rule comes from the best of intentions. It is how and what that is often the issue. A teacher wanting all of his/her students to read every night may have to send home something to be read. But how? School libraries are nonexistent in many places, school librarians in elementary schools a very rare thing indeed. If there IS a school library, students only get to go once a week or so and the collections are often woeful with pitiful budgets.
I think the question Marc and others is asking is really a valid question. While $16 for a glorious picture book is far from over-priced for what you get, the question of school library budgets and affordable books for families needs to be thought about. How can we make a quality reading experience possible for more children?
Public libraries are of course a wonderful resource and the one in my town is so busy that they can hardly keep up. Families leave with piles of picture books and the collection is used heavily. But many families can't get to the library on a weekly basis. The reality of life for many young parents means that between the time they get off work, retrieve their children, make dinner and then try to deal with homework, there is very little time for anything else. Add poverty, access and a myriad of other issues into the mix and you've got children whose only access to books comes from school.
Like many grandparents I'm helping to raise my grandchildren. My grandsons bring home a different "baggy book" every night and part of their homework is to read the book. These baggy books are paperbacks and usually controlled vocabulary beginning readers of increasing levels of difficulty. They are usually pretty dreadful. Volunteers collect these baggy books every day from school bags and redistribute them to a different child to take home to read. We are a family of readers and our house is full of books of course and although we love reading together, that baggy book is not something any of us regard as an entertaining reading experience. We hurry through so we can get to the good stuff but how can we get the good stuff into more hands?
I read to my grandsons' classes as a volunteer and at least in that one school I can attest to the fact that children still love a wide variety of books. Someone earlier posted that this generation needed action and noise on every page and I would heartily disagree with that. Quality and developmental appropriateness are what matters, story is what matters. It is the story told through illustration and text that matters to children still.
This is a community of smart people. I'd love to see us find ways to make larger numbers of quality books available more readily. Surely if we can develop technologies that fight wars thousands of miles away we can find was to get more good books to more children.
Lynn Rutan Bookends - Booklist Online Youth Blog Holland, MI lynnrutan_at_charter.net
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Subject: Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: Monica Edinger Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:04:37 -0400 X-Message-Number: 3
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Lynn Rutan wrote:
This is a community of smart people. I'd love to see us find ways to make larger numbers of quality books available more readily.
Hear hear. I think GIVING books to families who may not generally be book folks is always great. I love the programs I've read about of doctors giving books to patients with new babies in communities that are not otherwise book-focused. Even emergency rooms (since many without health insurance go there for relatively small problems --- I've been to our
NYC emergencies room and seen lots of small children there) and health clinics where parents will definitely be with their young picture book- ready readers. What a great places, I'd think, to have folks with books to give and perhaps some low-keyed parent ed on the value of picture books. Even just looking at the pictures for those parents whose first language may not be English and who may not be highly literate. I fear that many of the parents we might most want to connect to feel intimidated, overwhelmed, and stay clear of book situations. So having them in a place they need to go -- the hospital, emergency room, health clinic seems a possible way to go.
Monica
Monica
Monica Edinger 600 West 111th Street Apt 2A New York NY 10025 educating alice _at_medinger on twitter My Huffington Post Blog
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Subject: RE: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: "Payne, Rachel" Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:11:09 -0400 X-Message-Number: 4
Thanks for brining up programs where doctors "prescribe" reading with children to parents. Brooklyn Public Library has worked with Reach Out and Read (http://www.reachoutandread.org/) for several years and I have seen first hand the impact they can have on families who might otherwise read with their child. One of the key ingredients in these programs is the voice of authority, the doctor, saying it is important to read with your child. If a parent hears that reading is important from their doctor, it has all the more weight. My son's pediatrician, who I absolutely love, can influence me like no one else. Maybe we can encourage doctors to also spread the message that reading picture books with your 3 and 4 year old is one of the best things you can do and there is no need to abandon them for chapter books.
Best, Rachel
Rachel Payne Children's and Family Services Brooklyn Public Library Neighborhood Services Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238 phone: 718-230-2233 r.payne_at_brooklynpubliclibrary.org website: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/first5years/
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Subject: Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: "Payne, Rachel" Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:44:24 -0400 X-Message-Number: 5
Also, are there other professions who could speak on the importance of reading with children? The only other profession I can think that carries as much weight as the doctor is the clergy. Maybe we should be reaching out to ministers, rabbis, priests and imams to spread this good news!
Forgive the typos. The sleep deprivation of motherhood is to blame.
________________________________
From: Payne, Rachel To: ccbc-net_at_lists.education.wisc.edu Sent: Sat Nov 06 10:11:09 2010 Subject: RE:
Picture book twenty minutes a day
Thanks for brining up programs where doctors "prescribe" reading with children to parents. Brooklyn Public Library has worked with Reach Out and Read (http://www.reachoutandread.org/) for several years and I have seen first hand the impact they can have on families who might otherwise read with their child. One of the key ingredients in these programs is the voice of authority, the doctor, saying it is important to read with your child. If a parent hears that reading is important from their doctor, it has all the more weight. My son's pediatrician, who I absolutely love, can influence me like no one else. Maybe we can encourage doctors to also spread the message that reading picture books with your 3 and 4 year old is one of the best things you can do and there is no need to abandon them for chapter books.
Best, Rachel
Rachel Payne Children's and Family Services Brooklyn Public Library Neighborhood Services Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238 phone: 718-230-2233 r.payne_at_brooklynpubliclibrary.org website: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/first5years/
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:05:04 -0600
Regarding the importance of reading to children at home, preschool children in particular:
In my work associated with Drury University's School of Education and Child Development, I'm chairing a project called Family Voices. As we know from national surveys, fewer than half of today's children five and under are read to at home on a regular basis. When neither parent graduated from high school, the percentage drops to 36% and, for families living at or below the poverty level, only 32% of preschool children are read to routinely.
Family Voices has recorded a number of well-known people in this area, each reading a picture book selected by children's librarians. In December we will mount a campaign to record the voices of parents of preschool children reading a story to be added to the collection. The entire library of stories will then be saved on a personalized CD and given to the parents along with a free book for each child in the family who is five years old or under. Our goal is to eventually reach a high percentage of the 8,000 - 10,000 preschool children in this community. By doing this, we hope to help increase awareness of how important it is to read to children on a daily basis during the critical learning years prior to starting school. In families that struggle to find time and resources to accomplish this, we will give them a CD library of 33 stories that their children can listen to even if Mom or Dad can't take the time to do the reading.
Thanks to the sponsorship of Springfield's Gannett paper, News-Leader, and to area Borders and Barnes & Noble stores who are offering children's books at a discount for Family Voices, we will hold a month-long book drive during December to increase the quantity of books we can give to families who participate in the project.
Here's a list of the books that will appear on the CD. A family with a DVD player can play the CD. For families without the means to play their CD, Family Voices will provide information for obtaining inexpensive players.
1. Baby Dance the Polka by Karen Beaumont 2. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle 3. Cha Cha Chimps by Julie Durango 4. Cows in the Kitchen by June Crebbin 5. Daddy Hugs 123 by Karen Katz 6. If You’re Happy and You Know It by James Warhola 7. Duck on a Bike by David Shannon 8. Little Gorilla by Ruth Bornstein 9. Who Will Tuck Me In Tonight? by Carol Roth 10. Time For Bed by Mem Fox 11. When Cows Come Home by David L. Harrison 12. Hi Pizza Man! By Virginia Wallters 13. Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle 14. I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont 15. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff 16. How Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by Jane Yolen 17. Five Little Monkeys Sitting In a Tree by Eileen Christelow 18. This Little Chick by John Lawrence 19. The Napping House by Audrey Wood 20. Mrs Nauch Hangs Out Her Wash by Sarah Weeks 21. Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells 22. Silly Sally by Audrey Wood 23. The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone 24. Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown 25. The
Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 26. The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins 27. Three Little Pigs 28. Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard 29. Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst 30. Humpty Dumpty, Hey Diddle Diddle, Little Miss Muffet, Itsy Bitsy Spider 31. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 32. Piggy Wiglet by David L. Harrison
I welcome comments. David Harrison http://davidlharrison.com
Message-----
From: CCBC Network digest
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 12:09 AM To: ccbc-net digest recipients Subject: ccbc-net digest: November 06, 2010
CCBC-NET Digest for Saturday, November 06, 2010.
1. picture books twenty minutes a day 2. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 3. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 4. RE: Picture book twenty minutes a day 5. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 6. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 7. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 8. Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day 9. Re: A Paucity of Picture Books 10. RE: Cost of Picture Books 11. Re: Cost of Picture Books 12. Re: Price of picture books 13. Re: Cost of Picture Books 14. Picture books 15. Cost of Picture Books 16. Picture Books
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Subject: picture books twenty minutes a day From: Lisa Von Drasek Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:31:17 -0400 X-Message-Number: 1
So many teachers and parents have fallen in love with "twenty minutes a day" The average picture book read aloud is five to 10 minutes. How many of us have witnessed a parent trying to corral an active three year old to sit for one more story. I try to assure parents that the twenty minutes a day didn't need to be in a row.
If I recall from Reading Magic... Mem recommends three a day.
Lisa
Lisa Von Drasek Children's Librarian Bank Street College of Education School for Children Pre-K- 8 610 West 112th St NY NY 10025
lisav_at_bnkst.edu
212 875 4452
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Subject: Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: Lynn Rutan Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:40:38 -0400 X-Message-Number: 2
Like many things in eduction, a good idea - reading with your child - has ended up being mandated and sometimes abused. The problem isn't the idea of course, it is how we help parents and, sadly sometimes teachers, understand how that glorious and impactive practice can best be implemented.
Of course children who read become better readers and I know that 20 minute a day rule comes from the best of intentions. It is how and what that is often the issue. A teacher wanting all of his/her students to read every night may have to send home something to be read. But how? School libraries are nonexistent in many places, school librarians in elementary schools a very rare thing indeed. If there IS a school library, students only get to go once a week or so and the collections are often woeful with pitiful budgets.
I think the question Marc and others is asking is really a valid question. While $16 for a glorious picture book is far from over-priced for what you get, the question of school library budgets and affordable books for families needs to be thought about. How can we make a quality reading experience possible for more children?
Public libraries are of course a wonderful resource and the one in my town is so busy that they can hardly keep up. Families leave with piles of picture books and the collection is used heavily. But many families can't get to the library on a weekly basis. The reality of life for many young parents means that between the time they get off work, retrieve their children, make dinner and then try to deal with homework, there is very little time for anything else. Add poverty, access and a myriad of other issues into the mix and you've got children whose only access to books comes from school.
Like many grandparents I'm helping to raise my grandchildren. My grandsons bring home a different "baggy book" every night and part of their homework is to read the book. These baggy books are paperbacks and usually controlled vocabulary beginning readers of increasing levels of difficulty. They are usually pretty dreadful. Volunteers collect these baggy books every day from school bags and redistribute them to a different child to take home to read. We are a family of readers and our house is full of books of course and although we love reading together, that baggy book is not something any of us regard as an entertaining reading experience. We hurry through so we can get to the good stuff but how can we get the good stuff into more hands?
I read to my grandsons' classes as a volunteer and at least in that one school I can attest to the fact that children still love a wide variety of books. Someone earlier posted that this generation needed action and noise on every page and I would heartily disagree with that. Quality and developmental appropriateness are what matters, story is what matters. It is the story told through illustration and text that matters to children still.
This is a community of smart people. I'd love to see us find ways to make larger numbers of quality books available more readily. Surely if we can develop technologies that fight wars thousands of miles away we can find was to get more good books to more children.
Lynn Rutan Bookends - Booklist Online Youth Blog Holland, MI lynnrutan_at_charter.net
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Subject: Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: Monica Edinger Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:04:37 -0400 X-Message-Number: 3
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Lynn Rutan wrote:
This is a community of smart people. I'd love to see us find ways to make larger numbers of quality books available more readily.
Hear hear. I think GIVING books to families who may not generally be book folks is always great. I love the programs I've read about of doctors giving books to patients with new babies in communities that are not otherwise book-focused. Even emergency rooms (since many without health insurance go there for relatively small problems --- I've been to our
NYC emergencies room and seen lots of small children there) and health clinics where parents will definitely be with their young picture book- ready readers. What a great places, I'd think, to have folks with books to give and perhaps some low-keyed parent ed on the value of picture books. Even just looking at the pictures for those parents whose first language may not be English and who may not be highly literate. I fear that many of the parents we might most want to connect to feel intimidated, overwhelmed, and stay clear of book situations. So having them in a place they need to go -- the hospital, emergency room, health clinic seems a possible way to go.
Monica
Monica
Monica Edinger 600 West 111th Street Apt 2A New York NY 10025 educating alice _at_medinger on twitter My Huffington Post Blog
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Subject: RE: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: "Payne, Rachel" Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:11:09 -0400 X-Message-Number: 4
Thanks for brining up programs where doctors "prescribe" reading with children to parents. Brooklyn Public Library has worked with Reach Out and Read (http://www.reachoutandread.org/) for several years and I have seen first hand the impact they can have on families who might otherwise read with their child. One of the key ingredients in these programs is the voice of authority, the doctor, saying it is important to read with your child. If a parent hears that reading is important from their doctor, it has all the more weight. My son's pediatrician, who I absolutely love, can influence me like no one else. Maybe we can encourage doctors to also spread the message that reading picture books with your 3 and 4 year old is one of the best things you can do and there is no need to abandon them for chapter books.
Best, Rachel
Rachel Payne Children's and Family Services Brooklyn Public Library Neighborhood Services Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238 phone: 718-230-2233 r.payne_at_brooklynpubliclibrary.org website: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/first5years/
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Subject: Re: Picture book twenty minutes a day From: "Payne, Rachel" Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:44:24 -0400 X-Message-Number: 5
Also, are there other professions who could speak on the importance of reading with children? The only other profession I can think that carries as much weight as the doctor is the clergy. Maybe we should be reaching out to ministers, rabbis, priests and imams to spread this good news!
Forgive the typos. The sleep deprivation of motherhood is to blame.
________________________________
From: Payne, Rachel To: ccbc-net_at_lists.education.wisc.edu Sent: Sat Nov 06 10:11:09 2010 Subject: RE:
Picture book twenty minutes a day
Thanks for brining up programs where doctors "prescribe" reading with children to parents. Brooklyn Public Library has worked with Reach Out and Read (http://www.reachoutandread.org/) for several years and I have seen first hand the impact they can have on families who might otherwise read with their child. One of the key ingredients in these programs is the voice of authority, the doctor, saying it is important to read with your child. If a parent hears that reading is important from their doctor, it has all the more weight. My son's pediatrician, who I absolutely love, can influence me like no one else. Maybe we can encourage doctors to also spread the message that reading picture books with your 3 and 4 year old is one of the best things you can do and there is no need to abandon them for chapter books.
Best, Rachel
Rachel Payne Children's and Family Services Brooklyn Public Library Neighborhood Services Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238 phone: 718-230-2233 r.payne_at_brooklynpubliclibrary.org website: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/first5years/
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