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A new and revised edition! Bestselling children's author and internationally respected literacy expert Mem Fox reveals the incredible emotional and intellectual impact reading aloud to children has on their ability to learn to read.
With passion and humor, Fox speaks of when, where, and why to read aloud and demonstrates how to read aloud to best effect and how to get the most out of a read-aloud session. She discusses the three secrets of reading, offers guidance on defining and choosing good books, and addresses the challenges that can arise. And this new edition boasts twenty pages of fresh material, including two new chapters on boy readers and phonics, a foreword, and a list of "Twenty Books that Children Love."
Filled with practical advice, activities, and inspiring true read-aloud miracles, this book is a favorite of educators and parents and a must-have for anyone interested in how children learn to read.
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 Should be required reading ( cecilkunkle )
"Reading Magic" by Mem Fox should be required reading, particularly by our elected morons who foisted the No Child Left Behind testing, retesting, remediation and blackberries upon our luckless children, while they send their own ruling class offspring to private schools.
Fox's book was recommended at a "Thousand Books Before Kindergarten" seminar. According to the moderator, the middle class child has 2,500 reading-to hours prior to school and the proletariat child, so to speak, has twenty-five. Imagine the disadvantage the disadvantaged enters school with! Several libraries, while the weasel in Washington has cutting Reading is Fun-damental, which his mother grabbed many political points with, out of the federal budget, have begun programs encouraging parents to read at least 1,000 books, beginning at birth, to their children before they enter kindergarten.
But, back to the book, Fox discusses the importance of reading, from birth on, to the mental development of the child and the educational management's schemes designed so that everyone in the classroom knows who the slowest reader is. (P.146) Phonics does not get terrific reviews either. (P. 163)
According the Fox, the infant needs to be read to aloud often and regularly. The importance of rhymes and fairy tales was also discussed. There was even a suggestion that television might dull the child's mind.
I cannot stress enough the importance of this book,but only award it a four star because those who really need to avail themselves to this title do not even know it exists.
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 One of the best books I have read
Este libro es uno de los mejores que he leido (y he leido muchos!!) respecto en como apoyar y fomentar crecimiento literario en tu hijo.
Altamente recomendado.
La autora te demuestra muchas fases y efectos que la lectura tiene en tu hijo desde pequenho incluyendo vocabulario, conocimiento general, sentimiento hacia los libros, fonetica.
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Wonderful book to interest your child in reading ( idahojeri )
Reading aloud to your child is simply crucial to your child's development.
It's also a perfect quiet time for a parent to spend with a child, a cuddle at the end of the day. As the author points out, children who are read to are much more ready for school, and go on to enjoy reading much more.
I do not, however, agree, with his take on phonics. The research does not agree with him, either. Although the author points out children he has known who have learned to read with whole language: "Josephine was read the same stories repeatedly...Josie taught herself to read using whole language" (p 160).
There has been a great deal of research done on the subject, and it is clear that phonics helps children to read better.
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Reading Magic
I was hooked on this book from page one! The powerful and positive impact of reading aloud to children, and continuing to read to children as they age, is discussed throughout this book. Reading aloud is validated as time well-spent in the classroom and at home. The text is written in a personal, enthusiastic, straight-forward style which I found appealing. Reading Magic would be a wonderful book to recommend to parents as it does not contain "teacher talk". This book is also filled with practical advice to support student reading at home or school, and at varied ages.A very helpful book!
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Great book for parents and educators!
In Mem Fox's book, she thoroughly lays out her plan for changing the face of early literacy - by convincing all parents and families of the importance of reading aloud to their children. In an easy-to-read format, she tells families the process she has found most successful in reading aloud to children. She emphasizes the importance of all family members, including men, to read aloud to their children. Fox pushes reading aloud because hearing words read aloud helps "the thought connections in the brain, the more language a child experiences - through books and conversations with others, not passively from television - the more advantaged socially, educationally and in every way that child will be for the rest of his or her life." (pp. 17-18). I would recommend this book for parents and educators alike. It is a quick read, and provides a sound foundation for its content.
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