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From: Meghan McCarthy <meghanmccarthy007_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:14:46 -0800 (PST)
I think reading aloud is extremely important. I loved when my mom read alou d to me. I hated books otherwise. In school (if they picked the right book) it w as the same. I really remember not liking the Phantom Tollbooth though. I hate d all the puns and remember fake laughing when everyone in the class laughed beca use I didn't want to be left out... but I spaced out through most of the book. Bu t I liked books like The Indian in the Cupboard and The Mouse and The Motercycl e. And of course I loved all the Roald Dahl books. I think I may have enjoyed some adult books better. I was very into reading an adult book about the holocau st. So you never know what a kid may like. I think the best thing to do is read
parts of books (a variety) aloud to get kids hooked and then hope that they 'll want to keep reading the rest by themselves.
meghan
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From: Elsa Marston To: ccbc-net_at_ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Sun, February 6, 2011 1:24:31 PM Subject:
Reading, reluctantly and otherwise
I have been following the Reluctant Reader discourse with fascination, and often with a lump in my throat. Thank you, everyone who has written on this subj ect, for sharing your own experiences and observations--they are so valuable. (I 'm still reeling from the account of a school principal who dismissed both rea ding aloud and reading to oneself for pleasure as "not purposeful activity.")
At the same time, or very recently, another listserve that I'm on (this one for children's authors) has been discussing the experience of reading--and bein g read to--aloud in school. We got so excited, someone suggested putting the se mini-essays together in some form that could be made available to teachers and other educators--to show how important reading aloud is, and how it can rea ch even those kids who have never been able to make the connection between boo ks and enjoyment/growth/etc. We'd like to think that if educators could see t his group of children's authors (some very well known) describing the lasting e ffect on their lives of being read to--just for the pleasure of it, not because i t was prescribed by the curriculum--it might help promote this idea in our consta ntly needy system of education.
Thus far, no one has jumped up electronically and said "I'll do it!" (And No, I can't.) But I would like to see a connection between these two questions: how to reach "reluctant readers" and how to give children (and adults) the immeasurably important enrichment of hearing stories read aloud.
That's all I can say for now. I'm limp over what's going on in the Middle East.
Elsa www.elsamarston.com
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:14:46 -0800 (PST)
I think reading aloud is extremely important. I loved when my mom read alou d to me. I hated books otherwise. In school (if they picked the right book) it w as the same. I really remember not liking the Phantom Tollbooth though. I hate d all the puns and remember fake laughing when everyone in the class laughed beca use I didn't want to be left out... but I spaced out through most of the book. Bu t I liked books like The Indian in the Cupboard and The Mouse and The Motercycl e. And of course I loved all the Roald Dahl books. I think I may have enjoyed some adult books better. I was very into reading an adult book about the holocau st. So you never know what a kid may like. I think the best thing to do is read
parts of books (a variety) aloud to get kids hooked and then hope that they 'll want to keep reading the rest by themselves.
meghan
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From: Elsa Marston To: ccbc-net_at_ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Sun, February 6, 2011 1:24:31 PM Subject:
Reading, reluctantly and otherwise
I have been following the Reluctant Reader discourse with fascination, and often with a lump in my throat. Thank you, everyone who has written on this subj ect, for sharing your own experiences and observations--they are so valuable. (I 'm still reeling from the account of a school principal who dismissed both rea ding aloud and reading to oneself for pleasure as "not purposeful activity.")
At the same time, or very recently, another listserve that I'm on (this one for children's authors) has been discussing the experience of reading--and bein g read to--aloud in school. We got so excited, someone suggested putting the se mini-essays together in some form that could be made available to teachers and other educators--to show how important reading aloud is, and how it can rea ch even those kids who have never been able to make the connection between boo ks and enjoyment/growth/etc. We'd like to think that if educators could see t his group of children's authors (some very well known) describing the lasting e ffect on their lives of being read to--just for the pleasure of it, not because i t was prescribed by the curriculum--it might help promote this idea in our consta ntly needy system of education.
Thus far, no one has jumped up electronically and said "I'll do it!" (And No, I can't.) But I would like to see a connection between these two questions: how to reach "reluctant readers" and how to give children (and adults) the immeasurably important enrichment of hearing stories read aloud.
That's all I can say for now. I'm limp over what's going on in the Middle East.
Elsa www.elsamarston.com
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