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Title: Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever by Mem Fox, Judy Horacek ISBN: 0-15-601076-3 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Book by a Beloved Children's Author
Comment: As a Speech Language Pathologist and Children's Literacy Coach I can attest to the fact that reading to children is a critical element in literacy acquisition. Children must learn the flow of language and the variance and flexibility of words in order to appreciate literature and write well. Reading to children of ALL ages ( yes even middle and high school!) is critical for the development of advanced reading, writing and listening skills. What can be better than creativity and imagination being fostered during a warm, entertaining storytelling session.....with the stories coming from brilliant authors ( like Mem Fox)? I recommend this book to all my parents, my fellow teachers and to my friends. It makes a great book for new parents. It makes a great addition to any one's library who has an interest in children's literature, literacy or storytelling. Thank you Mem Fox for writing such a great book!
Rating: 5
Summary: You Go Mem
Comment: I loved this book. I learned how to choose better books for my daughter and I learned to take myself less seriously while reading to her and to just let go and be silly and have a ton of fun. Thank you Mem. Among my favorite books to read aloud to my 3 year old daughter are Mem's It's Time for Bed, Karma Wilson's The Bear Snored On, and The Bear Wants More and Judy Hindley's Do Like a Duck Does.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reading Specialist WHOLE Heartedly Agrees Part of Puzzle
Comment: I respectfully disagree with many people in these reviews who are touting that this book is a glib solution, most especially the citation of the NRP Report!
I am a postgraduate educated Reading Specialist, and can tell you that report was compiled by numerous people who have no education on the subject of reading instruction. Also, that report is misconstrued and in schools allowed to be used as support for phonics worksheets as an isolated way to teach reading.
I don't know about you, but I didn't learn to read totally be being able to identify a picture, and writing the beginning or ending or medial sound on a blank line of a worksheet.
No, I listened. (Do those reviewers know the all too important impact of a child's listening comprehension?) I also looked at the pictures (that's called Context Clues). And I looked at word structure and vocabulary (that's called the Structural Cueing System). I made sense of what I was reading (currently referred to as metacognition).
I now remediate adolescent readers. And let me tell you - direct systematic phonics has failed them! It's because they have not made sense of their reading. What they read doesn't engage them or motivate them.
Think about it - what is your definition of reading? Do you have a scientific montage of words or is it plainly just decoding symbols to decipher meaning from the message? For me, reading is making meaning.
When children are read aloud to (as I do DAILY in my secondary remediation classes), numerous things happen in the brain. Read brain-based learning books. Then tell me how phonics worksheets are THE only and recommended way to learn. When children are read aloud to, the basis for making meaning is created.
I can guarantee you in an unscientific study that my students were NOT read to as children or even in their later lives. We may be able to get those kids past decoding in their early years - Kindergarten and First Grade - but reading aloud increases and hones listening comprehension, attention to task, and visualization - components of reading comprehension that are often overlooked.
Reading aloud creates meaning - provides motivation and engagement for kids. It is a HUGE component of reading comprehension, and should not be treated lightly.
Mem Fox does not purport ANYWHERE in this book that it is the be all and end all. She is an outstanding author who knows that fluent and fluid language is a part of the puzzle.
Readers who are looking for a quick fix and pat answers to reading difficulties - sure, yes, can look at the NRP Report, and get whatever answers they need to get.
And for those parents who perhaps misunderstand many components of reading, you really do need to consult a specialist before you make wide sweeping generalizations. For most of us, we have never given thought to how we learn to read. There are varied and enumerated reasons that a child cannot read - some of them are phonological or processing related and some of them are meaning related. For whatever reason, there is NOT just ONE answer, like NRP would have you believe.
But if you talk to any educated reading professional, he or she will tell you straight up how that report is regarded.
With the whole language vs phonics debate roaring wildly these days, I think our time is better spent -
Reading aloud to children.
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Title: The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease ISBN: 0141001615 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living by Mem Fox ISBN: 015607947X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Koala Lou by Mem Fox, Pamela Lofts ISBN: 0152000763 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: How to Get Your Child to Love Reading: For Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike by Esme Raji Codell ISBN: 1565123085 Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Tough Boris by Mem Fox, Kathryn Brown ISBN: 0152018913 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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