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Reading to Children
 

 

 

 

Benefits of reading to children...

Reading aloud to children wakens their sleeping imaginations and improves their deteriorating language?it also improves children?s attitudes toward books and reading.      Trelease, 1982
 

Reading aloud to children is the single most important activity for creating the motivation and background knowledge essential to success in reading.         Anderson, Heibert, Scott, and Wilkinson

What Kinds of Books Do I Read to Children?

Read Aloud Booklists The Teacher's Guide to Building Blocks  p. 32
Month by Month Reading and Writing for Kindergarten p. 9, 13, 28, 38, 47-48, 56, 72, 104, 117, and 136-144.

 

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