Authors: Jim Trelease
ISBN-13: 9780143037392, ISBN-10: 0143037390
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jim Trelease is the editor of two anthologies, Read All About It! and Hey! Listen to This, and the author of the one that started it all, The Read-Aloud Handbook. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
For more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, The Read- Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategiesand the reasoning behind them for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.
The newly revised and updated fifth edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease uses his trademark Q&A format to address such issues as television, library funding and the Harry Potter phenomenon. A "Treasury of Read-Alouds" in the back of the book suggests starting points for parents. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Why Read Aloud? | 1 |
2 | When to Begin Read-Aloud | 27 |
3 | The Stages of Read-Aloud | 60 |
4 | The Dos and Don'ts of Read-Aloud | 106 |
5 | Read-Aloud Success Stories | 113 |
6 | Home, School, and Public Libraries | 139 |
7 | Television | 163 |
8 | Sustained Silent Reading: Reading-Aloud's Natural Partner | 193 |
9 | How to Use the Treasury | 224 |
10 | Treasury of Read-Alouds | 229 |
Wordless Books | 229 | |
Predictable/Cumulative Books | 231 | |
Picture Reference Books | 233 | |
Picture Books | 234 | |
Short Novels | 285 | |
Novels | 300 | |
Poetry | 331 | |
Anthologies | 337 | |
Fairy and Folk Tales | 342 | |
Appendix: A Note for Doomsayers Who Think Things Have Never Been Worse | 347 | |
Notes | 353 | |
Bibliography | 374 | |
Subject Index for the Text | 378 | |
Author-Illustrator Index for the Treasury | 383 |