The Purpose of Reading!!!
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“The purpose of education in the US has reflected our nation’s ever-changing needs. At the beginning of the 19th century, George Washington’s time, the major goal was to create good citizens. In the early 20th century, legal theorist, John Dewey, saw schools as a place to learn how to live, use skills, and knowledge to realize the student’s full potential for the greater good. And in the 21st century, we have the Bush led, bi-partisan legislation, “No Child Left Behind” to teach skills, especially in reading.” (Linda, 2012) The question is how do parent’s and Teacher’s get the child to stay active in their reading? Link: http://thebrodskyblog.com/?p=2834
If teachers/parents want their students to have similar memories; they must model their own love of reading. Teachers read out loud to their students from books, magazines, charts, newspapers, and countless other forms of printed material every day. Because young students are not typically given a copy of the text and asked to read along, they are free to listen, imagine, enjoy the story or ideas, and process the information.
Read-aloud may look like an ordinary event in a typical classroom, but it feels extraordinary when the teacher who is reading is aware of the power of the book and the importance of her/his role in not only reading to her/his students, but leading them through the book-using read-aloud as a teaching time (Hahn, 2002).
The academic purpose of a read-aloud is to help students develop the vocabulary and comprehension strategies necessary to navigate a particular genre. However, read-aloud also provide simple pleasure. A student who gets hooked on books by listening to an important adult read takes a giant step toward attaining literacy and becoming a life-long reader. For more factual information on this subject refer to this website. Link: http://www.benchmarkeducation.com/reading/reading-aloud-for-different-purposes.html
If teachers/parents want their students to have similar memories; they must model their own love of reading. Teachers read out loud to their students from books, magazines, charts, newspapers, and countless other forms of printed material every day. Because young students are not typically given a copy of the text and asked to read along, they are free to listen, imagine, enjoy the story or ideas, and process the information.
Read-aloud may look like an ordinary event in a typical classroom, but it feels extraordinary when the teacher who is reading is aware of the power of the book and the importance of her/his role in not only reading to her/his students, but leading them through the book-using read-aloud as a teaching time (Hahn, 2002).
The academic purpose of a read-aloud is to help students develop the vocabulary and comprehension strategies necessary to navigate a particular genre. However, read-aloud also provide simple pleasure. A student who gets hooked on books by listening to an important adult read takes a giant step toward attaining literacy and becoming a life-long reader. For more factual information on this subject refer to this website. Link: http://www.benchmarkeducation.com/reading/reading-aloud-for-different-purposes.html
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"You may have tangible wealth untold. / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be – / I had a mother who read to me."
— Strickland Gillilan
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!"
— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
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— Strickland Gillilan
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!"
— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
Link: http://www.readingrockets.org/books/fun/quotable