Reading+to+Children


 * //Please read the article, "Reading To Children," by Deanna Wastermann, and then respond to at least three of the following quotes. Add your thoughts after your chosen quotes. Use a different color to make your response stand out from the text and from others' responses. Reference the article where appropriate. Sign your name after each contribution.// **

**“** Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.**”** (Do you agree? Why or why not? Justify with article.) - Marilyn Jager Adams >  **“** A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.**”** (What does this have to do with the teacher's role in the approach, Reading To children? How might one address this with young children?) - Samuel Johnson **“** What is reading but silent conversation?**”** (Do you agree? What else is reading? What kinds of things about reading does the teacher need to model when reading to children?) - Walter Savage Landor **“** Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.**”** (How does the approach Reading To children fit with this statement?) - Emilie Buchwald **“** It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.**”** (Does this idea enlarge the teacher's role in Reading To children? In what ways?) - Katherine Patterson **“** Listening to good models of fluent reading, students can learn how a reader's voice can help text make sense.**”** (Why is this important? Or is it?) - M.R. Kuhn & S.A. Stahl, "Fluency: A Review of Development and Remedial Practices" (2003)