The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
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- Pub. Date: July 2006
- 432pp
- Sales Rank: 7,071
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: July 2006
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 432pp
- Sales Rank: 7,071
- Series: Read-Aloud Handbook Series
- ISBN-13: 9780143037392
- ISBN: 0143037390
- Edition Number: 6
Synopsis
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 strategies—and the reasoning behind them— for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.
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"...about time that parents, teachers and children spend together in a loving, sharing way."--Washington Post
Publishers Weekly
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.
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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.
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May 03, 2009: This is a must-read for all parents and parents-to-be. In fact, I think it makes a great baby shower gift. Not only does it have excellent information on why it is important to read to your baby/child, the second half of the book is made up of lists of read-aloud suggestions.
this book "the read aloud-hand book" provides very informative and appealing resource forby readerGK
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February 09, 2009: As I picked up this book and leanded about the author who is the chief editor of penguin group, I was drawn to this book and started reading right away. This book truly shows how important it is to read book to children in terms of education. Not just this book encourages parents and educators to read aloud but also it provides very practical mathods along with best practice implemented world wide. As a mom who has been enthusiastic and enjoying reading for my kid, I could get valuable information including recommended book list and also reading methods,..
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