The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition

by Jim Trelease

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143037392
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/25/2006
Series:	Read-Aloud Handbook Series
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	18 - 17 Years

About the Author

Before retiring from the lecture circuit in 2008, Jim Trelease spent thirty years addressing parents, teachers, and librarians on the subjects of children, literature, and the challenges of multimedia to print. Initially self-published in 1979, The Read-Aloud Handbook has had seven American editions as well as British, Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, and Spanish editions. Trelease is also the editor of two popular read-aloud anthologies for Penguin: Hey! Listen to This, for grades K-4, and Read All About It! , for preteens and teens.In 2010, Penguin Books named The Read-Aloud Handbook as one of the seventy-five most important books it published in its seventy-five-year history.

Table of Contents

The Read-Aloud Handbook Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Why Read Aloud?
2. When to Begin (and End?) Read-Aloud
3. The Stages of Read-Aloud
4. The Do's and Dont's of Read-Aloud
5. Sustained Silent-Reading: Reading Aloud's Natural Partner
6. In Their Own Words 7. The Print Climate in the Home, School, and Library
8. Lessons from Oprah, Harry, and the Internet
9. TV, Audio, and Technology: Hurting or Helping Literacy?
Treasury of Read-Alouds How to Use the Treasury
Wordless Books
Predictable Books
Reference Books
Picture Books
Contents
Short Novels
Full-Length Novels
Poetry
Anthologies
Fairy and Folk Tales
Notes
Bibliography
Subject Index for the Text
Author-Illustrator Index for the Treasury

Editorial Reviews

The fifth edition of Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook brings this oral-reading classic into the digital age. Completely revised and updated, the handbook includes a new chapter on what parents and educators can learn from the advent of Oprah's Book Club, the Harry Potter mania, and the Internet explosion. A fine resource for book lovers.

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"Reading is for the mind what exercise is for the body." The truth of that statement hasn't faded in the three centuries since Joseph Addison wrote it. But for many children, reading is a pleasure and a discipline imperfectly learned and soon forgotten. Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook, now in its sixth edition, has shepherded millions of parents and educators through a host of proven reading strategies and techniques.

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.

Publishers Weekly

Revising his 1985 edition, Trelease preaches the reading gospel with undiminished fervor. Updated evidence from scholarly and journalistic sources (50 percent post-1985) bolsters his case for reading aloud from infancy through adolescence. Trelease addresses parents, but directs considerable homiletic energy toward librarians, pediatricians, clergy, and above all, schools: a new chapter cites individual, state, and district ``success stories.'' There is a new list of ``predictable'' (i.e., cumulative or repetitive) books, and over 70 synopses are of books published 1985-89. Most choices are excellent. Wider in scope than parent guides like Eden R. Lipson's Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children ( Times Bks., 1988), Michele Landsberg's Reading for the Love of It (LJ 11/15/87), or Betsy Hearne's Choosing Books for Children (LJ 5/1/81), Trelease's book covers a broader age range and is easier to use than Masha Rudman and Anna M. Pierce's For Love of Reading (Consumer Reports Bks., 1988). His enthusiasm is infectious, and his ``related readings'' suggestions are invaluable (and unique).-- Patricia Dooley, Univ. of Washington Lib. Sch. , Seattle

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