Read-Aloud Handbook : Sixth Edition

by Trelease, Jim (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780143037392
• ISBN10: 0143037390
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

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 Handbookimparts 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 Handbookoffers 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	xi
Why Read Aloud?	1	(22)
When to Begin (and End) Read-Aloud	23	(26)
The Stages of Read-Aloud	49	(26)
The Dos and Don'ts of Read-Aloud	75	(6)
Sustained Silent Reading: Reading Aloud's Natural Partner	81	(23)
In Their Own Words	104	(13)
The Print Climate in the Home, School, and Library	117	(20)
Lessons from Oprah, Harry, and the Internet	137	(20)
TV, Audio, and Technology: Hurting or Helping Literacy?	157	(20)
Treasury of Read-Alouds	177	(116)
How to Use the Treasury	177	(2)
Wordless Books	179	(1)
Predictable Books	179	(2)
Reference Books	181	(1)
Picture Books	182	(41)
Short Novels	223	(15)
Full-Length Novels	238	(44)
Poetry	282	(4)
Anthologies	286	(3)
Fairy and Folk Tales	289	(4)
Notes	293	(26)
Bibliography	319	(6)
Subject Index for the Text	325	(10)
Author-Illustrator Index for the Treasury	335