The Read-Aloud Handbook

jim trelease

A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated

Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three 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.

Genres parentingnonfictioneducationbooks about booksreferenceteachingadultchildrensfamilyself help

340 pages, Paperback

First published September 30,1982

This edition

Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Published: July 25, 2006 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143037392
ASIN: 0143037390
Language: English

About the author

jim trelease

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts ('63) and native of New Jersey (Orange, Union and North Plainfield), Jim Trelease was for 20 years an award-winning artist and journalist before turning his career toward education in 1979 when he wrote the first edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook.

Now the grandfather of three boys and two girls, he resides with his wife Susan in Enfield, Connecticut.

from http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/bi...