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From: David Harrison <davidlharrison1_at_att.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:22:49 -0500
In Springfield, Missouri we're engaged in a project called Family Voices. To encourage parents of preschool children to read to them at home on a regular basis, we enlisted the support of more than a dozen local celebrities and recorded their voices reading librarian-selected stories appropriate for the very young. This collection of stories makes a neat library on CD that children can listen to even when no one in the family is available to sit down and read directly to them.
Now we are holding recording events to encourage parents in our target group to let us record their own voices reading a book to their children. We add their voices to the CD to personalize it and give them the CD plus a free book to take home.
Family Voices was mentioned in the last issue of Reading Today and as a result I'm working with someone in California who wants to try the same thing. We're also establishing a base line by interviewing parents about their reading habits before our project and will follow up in six months to see if positive changes can be determined.
David Harrison
http://davidlharrison.com
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From: CCBC Network digest
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:09 AM To: ccbc-net digest recipients Subject: ccbc-net digest: April 17, 2011
CCBC-NET Digest for Sunday, April 17, 2011.
1. Reading Aloud Endearingly and Enduringly
2. Reading aloud
3. reading aloud
4. Reading Aloud
5. Re: Reading aloud
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Subject: Reading Aloud Endearingly and Enduringly
From: Angie Miles
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:32:24 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 1
All
I appreciate very much the experiences shared by both Sheila and Dan. Dan, your family traditions were so touching, I read your post again and again. Sheila, I found myself laughing at the sweet thought of your giggling grandbaby and then sharing your story (reading it aloud) to my husband. And he definitely knows how to read on his own!
I believe that when we continue to share read-aloud experiences with older children and even with adults (for example the elderly, as Sheila suggested), we not only create moments to savor now but we sometimes set the stage for a ripple effect. Our older students and children, recalling with fondness the shared reading, may read aloud with others well beyond the transitional reading stage. Here's to a read-aloud ripple that lasts over lifetimes and that keeps great books in print, in circulation and alive in our hearts.
One more note, prompted by Sheila's post: Imagine if just one additional person in each city or town in the world started reading aloud to an elderly person. How would that change the readers? The listeners? The world? I've long considered reading aloud for nursing home residents as a project for my four sons. I believe I have found a great project for them to consider, starting this summer.
Best to all
Angie Miles
www.happyreading.org
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Subject: Reading aloud
From: Elsa Marston
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:54:34 -0500
X-Message-Number: 2
The most recent comments, from Angie, Sheila, and Dan, make me want to share
my own experience.
For years I read to my husband in bed, and although finding the right kind
of book was not always easy, it was a little ritual that we both enjoyed a
great deal. One night we settled down, looking forward to tennis in the
morning; he cued me for my part in a funny play I was in, and then I read
to him from *The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, *which made us both laugh.
He went to sleep smiling--and never woke up again. I shall always be
thankful for the happy moments that reading aloud brought us, and to E.L.
Konigsburg for writing that book.
Elsa
www.elsamarston.com
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Subject: reading aloud
From: "Christine A. Jenkins"
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:02:08 -0500 (CDT)
X-Message-Number: 3
Good Read-alouds
When I was an elementary school librarian, there was a class of 4th graders that I came to dread. It appeared that all they *really* wanted to do was fight. Most of it was verbal, some of it was play, some was real. Needless to say, I found it tiresome and annoying (which I'm sure was part of the fun). I tried a number of strategies to have their time in the library be a pleasurable time *without* the pleasure of fighting. The *only* thing that worked was reading aloud to them. They didn't want anything that resembled a picture book. Their library period was 25 minutes, so I found read-alouds that would last 15-20 minutes, which gave them enough time to look for books, but not enough to really get a good start on fighting.
As you can tell, they went for humor. These ones were the ones they were especially enthusiastic. Imagine a class of self-identified tough fourth grades chanting:
"All RIGHT! Piggle Wiggle! Piggle Wiggle! Piggle Wiggle!"
Betty MacDonald
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
Ann Cameron
The Stories that Julian Tells.
More Stories that Julian Tells.
Julian, Secret Agent.
Julian's Glorious Summer.
Julian, Dream Doctor.
The Stories Huey Tells.
More Stories Huey Tells.
Gloria's Way.
Maurice Dolbier.
The Magic Shop.
(This has been out of print for quite a while, but it's definitely worth looking for.)
Louis Sachar.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School.
Wayside School get a little stranger.
Wayside School is falling down.
Levy, Elizabeth.
Something Queer at the Lemonade Stand
Something Queer in the Library
Something Queer in the Haunted School
Something Queer on Vacation
(I know I said that they didn't want anything that looked like a picture book, but for these they made an exception).
----------------------------------------------
Christine A. Jenkins, Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel
Champaign, IL 61820
217 244-7452 - voice
217 244-3302 - fax
cajenkin_at_illinois.edu
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Subject: Reading Aloud
From: Angie Miles
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 4
Christine... though I'm sure those children challenged your sanity at times, the way you relate the story is pure comedy. I think you have the makings of an excellent book, picture or otherwise, if you choose. Something about words soothing the savage breast comes to mind.
And Elsa, thank you for sharing such a very personal story. Understandably, I am moved to tears, as I'm sure others are. Though your parting is undeniably sorrowful, I believe the two of you came as close to a happy ending as a story can. I hope that when the time comes, I am as fortunate in my farewell.
Again, you demonstrate the absolute power of the written word, shared with feeling.
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Subject: Re: Reading aloud
From: Carol Elbert
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:29:38 -0500
X-Message-Number: 5
I have enjoyed this discussion of the pleasures of reading aloud and
want to add my voice in favor of reading to older kids and adults.
As a retired children's librarian, I am still telling parents to keep
reading to their children as long as they are willing. I got
acquainted with an elderly couple when they visited the library often
to check out books for their grandchildren, and that man told me that
he still read aloud to his wife every night. I have comforting
memories of reading poetry to my mother in the last month of her
life, choosing poems that she had read to us when we were young. My
daughter and I often read aloud to each other, and when she had a
long hospitalization at the age of 29, I read to her every day. We
found the humor of Dave Barry to be a valuable pain management
strategy, and we thoroughly enjoyed "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,"
novels by Terry Pratchett, "Because of Winn-Dixie," and anything that
would make us laugh. When my daughter's cancer came back six years
later, again reading together helped us get through hard times. Those
are comforting memories too.
Carol Elbert
Ames, Iowa
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:22:49 -0500
In Springfield, Missouri we're engaged in a project called Family Voices. To encourage parents of preschool children to read to them at home on a regular basis, we enlisted the support of more than a dozen local celebrities and recorded their voices reading librarian-selected stories appropriate for the very young. This collection of stories makes a neat library on CD that children can listen to even when no one in the family is available to sit down and read directly to them.
Now we are holding recording events to encourage parents in our target group to let us record their own voices reading a book to their children. We add their voices to the CD to personalize it and give them the CD plus a free book to take home.
Family Voices was mentioned in the last issue of Reading Today and as a result I'm working with someone in California who wants to try the same thing. We're also establishing a base line by interviewing parents about their reading habits before our project and will follow up in six months to see if positive changes can be determined.
David Harrison
http://davidlharrison.com
Message-----
From: CCBC Network digest
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:09 AM To: ccbc-net digest recipients Subject: ccbc-net digest: April 17, 2011
CCBC-NET Digest for Sunday, April 17, 2011.
1. Reading Aloud Endearingly and Enduringly
2. Reading aloud
3. reading aloud
4. Reading Aloud
5. Re: Reading aloud
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Reading Aloud Endearingly and Enduringly
From: Angie Miles
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:32:24 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 1
All
I appreciate very much the experiences shared by both Sheila and Dan. Dan, your family traditions were so touching, I read your post again and again. Sheila, I found myself laughing at the sweet thought of your giggling grandbaby and then sharing your story (reading it aloud) to my husband. And he definitely knows how to read on his own!
I believe that when we continue to share read-aloud experiences with older children and even with adults (for example the elderly, as Sheila suggested), we not only create moments to savor now but we sometimes set the stage for a ripple effect. Our older students and children, recalling with fondness the shared reading, may read aloud with others well beyond the transitional reading stage. Here's to a read-aloud ripple that lasts over lifetimes and that keeps great books in print, in circulation and alive in our hearts.
One more note, prompted by Sheila's post: Imagine if just one additional person in each city or town in the world started reading aloud to an elderly person. How would that change the readers? The listeners? The world? I've long considered reading aloud for nursing home residents as a project for my four sons. I believe I have found a great project for them to consider, starting this summer.
Best to all
Angie Miles
www.happyreading.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Reading aloud
From: Elsa Marston
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:54:34 -0500
X-Message-Number: 2
The most recent comments, from Angie, Sheila, and Dan, make me want to share
my own experience.
For years I read to my husband in bed, and although finding the right kind
of book was not always easy, it was a little ritual that we both enjoyed a
great deal. One night we settled down, looking forward to tennis in the
morning; he cued me for my part in a funny play I was in, and then I read
to him from *The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, *which made us both laugh.
He went to sleep smiling--and never woke up again. I shall always be
thankful for the happy moments that reading aloud brought us, and to E.L.
Konigsburg for writing that book.
Elsa
www.elsamarston.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: reading aloud
From: "Christine A. Jenkins"
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:02:08 -0500 (CDT)
X-Message-Number: 3
Good Read-alouds
When I was an elementary school librarian, there was a class of 4th graders that I came to dread. It appeared that all they *really* wanted to do was fight. Most of it was verbal, some of it was play, some was real. Needless to say, I found it tiresome and annoying (which I'm sure was part of the fun). I tried a number of strategies to have their time in the library be a pleasurable time *without* the pleasure of fighting. The *only* thing that worked was reading aloud to them. They didn't want anything that resembled a picture book. Their library period was 25 minutes, so I found read-alouds that would last 15-20 minutes, which gave them enough time to look for books, but not enough to really get a good start on fighting.
As you can tell, they went for humor. These ones were the ones they were especially enthusiastic. Imagine a class of self-identified tough fourth grades chanting:
"All RIGHT! Piggle Wiggle! Piggle Wiggle! Piggle Wiggle!"
Betty MacDonald
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
Ann Cameron
The Stories that Julian Tells.
More Stories that Julian Tells.
Julian, Secret Agent.
Julian's Glorious Summer.
Julian, Dream Doctor.
The Stories Huey Tells.
More Stories Huey Tells.
Gloria's Way.
Maurice Dolbier.
The Magic Shop.
(This has been out of print for quite a while, but it's definitely worth looking for.)
Louis Sachar.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School.
Wayside School get a little stranger.
Wayside School is falling down.
Levy, Elizabeth.
Something Queer at the Lemonade Stand
Something Queer in the Library
Something Queer in the Haunted School
Something Queer on Vacation
(I know I said that they didn't want anything that looked like a picture book, but for these they made an exception).
----------------------------------------------
Christine A. Jenkins, Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel
Champaign, IL 61820
217 244-7452 - voice
217 244-3302 - fax
cajenkin_at_illinois.edu
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Subject: Reading Aloud
From: Angie Miles
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 4
Christine... though I'm sure those children challenged your sanity at times, the way you relate the story is pure comedy. I think you have the makings of an excellent book, picture or otherwise, if you choose. Something about words soothing the savage breast comes to mind.
And Elsa, thank you for sharing such a very personal story. Understandably, I am moved to tears, as I'm sure others are. Though your parting is undeniably sorrowful, I believe the two of you came as close to a happy ending as a story can. I hope that when the time comes, I am as fortunate in my farewell.
Again, you demonstrate the absolute power of the written word, shared with feeling.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Re: Reading aloud
From: Carol Elbert
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:29:38 -0500
X-Message-Number: 5
I have enjoyed this discussion of the pleasures of reading aloud and
want to add my voice in favor of reading to older kids and adults.
As a retired children's librarian, I am still telling parents to keep
reading to their children as long as they are willing. I got
acquainted with an elderly couple when they visited the library often
to check out books for their grandchildren, and that man told me that
he still read aloud to his wife every night. I have comforting
memories of reading poetry to my mother in the last month of her
life, choosing poems that she had read to us when we were young. My
daughter and I often read aloud to each other, and when she had a
long hospitalization at the age of 29, I read to her every day. We
found the humor of Dave Barry to be a valuable pain management
strategy, and we thoroughly enjoyed "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,"
novels by Terry Pratchett, "Because of Winn-Dixie," and anything that
would make us laugh. When my daughter's cancer came back six years
later, again reading together helped us get through hard times. Those
are comforting memories too.
Carol Elbert
Ames, Iowa
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