oral reading

Explains how reading aloud awakens children's imaginations, improves language skills, and creates an atmosphere at home and in school that encourages readers. Also discusses how to compete with television and video games.

Contains twenty reproducible mini-plays for students in grades three through five, each with speaking parts at two reading levels.

Provides teachers, librarians, and parents with tips, techniques, activities, and twenty-five read-aloud plans for books that can be used with children in fifth and sixth grade.

Provides teachers, librarians, and parents with tips, techniques, activities, and twenty-five read-aloud plans for books that can be used with children in third and fourth grade.

Presents evidence in support of reading aloud to children, and features an annotated listing of recommended read-aloud books, including wordless, predictable, reference, and picture books, short and full-length novels, poetry, anthologies, and fairy and folk tales.

Presents advice on reading aloud to children, bibliographies of suggested books for grades 1-6, and 50 bookrelated activities.

A flip-chart tool for educators to help guide reading and writing lessons.

A manual of ways to use children's books, with a series of graded annotated list of over 3,500 kid-tested and recommended titles, plus author, subject, and title indexes.

Includes techniques on reading aloud to children and contains a list of 300 great read-aloud books.