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The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
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"The more you read, the meliorate you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you lot like it, the more y'all do it."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Children whose families have them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who military camp in remote areas accrue huge chunks of background cognition without even studying. For the impoverished kid defective the travel portfolio of affluence, the best mode to accumulate background noesis is by either reading or existence read to."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"This is not a book well-nigh pedagogy a child how to read; it's about teaching a kid to want to read. In that location'south an education adage that goes, "What nosotros teach children to love and desire volition ever outweigh what we make them learn." The fact is that some children learn to read sooner than others, while some acquire better than others. There is a difference. For the parent who thinks that sooner is better, who has an eighteen-month-old child barking at flash cards, my response is: sooner is not meliorate. Are the dinner guests who go far an hr early meliorate guests than those who make it on time? Of course not."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading swell literature to children?"
Nothing happened to the classics-only something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-v years agone. Reading a classic to a kid whose imagination is in a state of retarded evolution will not foster a love of literature in that child."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake upwards comatose parents? Someone better do it soon considering knowing television set's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a country mine on a decorated street."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary habitation or classroom conversation,"
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto newspaper unless they've first been uploaded to the head—by reading."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Not that parents are lone in their farthermost beliefs. That have more than enough visitor among school boards and loftier-ranking politicians who recall if you "set the schools, they'll set the kids." So, in Gadsden, Alabama, school officials eliminated kindergarten nap time in 2003 and then the children would take more than test-prep fourth dimension. Ii hours away in Atlanta, school officials figured that if you eliminated recess, the kids volition written report more than. And just in case those shifty teachers effort to sneak information technology in, Atlanta started building schools without playgrounds. "We are intent on improving academic performance," said the superintendent. "You don't exercise that past having kids hanging on the monkey bars." Meanwhile, Georgia's governor wanted the state to requite Mozart CDs to newborns because enquiry showed Mozart improved babies' IQs (which later proved to be mythical research). Correct backside him is Lincoln, Rhode Isle, where they canceled the commune spelling bee because only i child would win, leaving all others behind, thus violating the intent of No Child Left Behind--or, as they might say in Lincoln, no child gets ahead."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Permit children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"More nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find significant, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to choice up this volume or that volume and spend xx minutes with the writer, someone they've never met. The improve she knows her students and authors or books, the more than successful volition be the "matchmaking." Merely the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much volition fail for sure."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"When the daily number of words for each group of children is projected across 4 years, the four-year-former kid from the professional family will have heard 45 meg words, the working-class child 26 million, and the welfare kid just 13 million."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"The eventual strength of our vocabulary is adamant non by the x thousand common words just by how many rare words we empathise."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"What we acquire in babyhood is carved in stone. What we larn as adults is carved in water ice."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"The last thing you want showtime-graders thinking is that what they're reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!"
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"In a similar experiment involving reading to fetuses during the two and a half months before nascence, DeCasper found the child's heartbeat increased with a new story and decreased with a familiar one."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"the slap-up ones—you tin still sense of taste them years after, even remember the exact spot where you met them. Y'all can't always put your finger on why they linger with you, but they exercise."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Background knowledge is one reason children who read the virtually bring the largest amount of information to the learning tabular array and thus sympathise more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background noesis without even studying."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Follow the proffer of Dr. Caroline Bauer and post a reminder sign past your door: "Don't Forget Your Overflowing Book." Analogous to emergency rations in case of natural disasters, "overflowing" books should exist taken along in the car or even stored like spares in the trunk. A few chapters from these books can be squeezed into traffic jams on the way to the beach or long waits at the doctor's office."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"And then how do we brainwash the heart? There are really merely two ways: life experience and stories about life experience, which is chosen literature. Smashing preachers and teachers—Aesop, Socrates, Confucius, Moses, and Jesus—have traditionally used stories to become their lesson plans across, educating both the heed and the heart."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"Visual receptors in the encephalon outnumber auditory receptors 30:i.32 In other words, the chances of a word (or sentence) being retained in our memory depository financial institution are thirty times greater if we see it instead of just hear it."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"If there were a national fourth dimension shortage, the malls would be empty, Netflix would be defunct, and the cable-Goggle box companies would be bankrupt."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"What is meant to be heard is necessarily more straight in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

"There should exist no blitz to have a child reading before historic period half-dozen or 7. That's developmentally the natural fourth dimension."
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

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