While we all know that there is a time and a place for things in life, this applies to reading aloud as well. It has come down to a simple science of when, what, where, why and how. many over think this process and become overly concerned on how to read aloud when in reality it is just going with it to a certain point. This applies to writing as well. Mem Fox is a great resource of children's literature, along with teaching how to read aloud to our students and children. As an educator or parent The National Writing Project:Mentor Texts is a nice resource for providing reading material on the art to writing.
The Top Ten Read Alouds: Stories in which the books come to life
- The Book of Story Beginnings, by Kristin Kladstrup, 2006 Candlewick
- Edward and the Pirates, by David McPhail, 1997 Little Brown
- The Great Good Thing, by Roderick Townley, 2001 Atheneum
- Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, 2003 Scholastic
- Lionel and the Book of Beasts, by E. Nesbit, 2006 HarperCollins
- Magic by the Book, by Nina Bernstein, 2005 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- My Book Box, by Will Hillenbrand, 2006 Harcourt
- The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende, 1997 Puffin
- The Red Book, by Barbra Lehman, 2004 Houghton Mifflin
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?, by Lauren Child, 2003 Hyperion
In order for children/students to learn how to read aloud or write, they must have good examples set up for them. They learn from experiences, and usually the enjoyable ones. While everyone learns at different rates, there are simple steps that can be followed and gradually moving along as the child does. When is all said and done, it is important to remember to follow up with the child at the end when the child has shown enthusiasm in the book.
This chapter focused on emerging the internet and children's literature through a variety of engaging upcoming tactics. While there was positive and negative sides to emerging the two, if done correctly and with thought-having children's literature can be a very powerful tactic for the literacy world. There comes a whole new group of terms that one must know and understand to fully utilize what is to offer.
There are so many amazing ways a person could use the internet to satisfy their love for literature, while sometimes we just like to be a able to hold the book and turn the pages in our hand. If you are open to new ideas and change, literature has become assessable at the tips of our fingers. There are even sites to visit that have over 200 free e-texts for all age ranges. Perhaps you or a student find a novel by a new author you just love, and want to see an interview or meet the author. However we all have crazy, busy lives, preventing us traveling sometimes to such events, now it is as easy as logging on the internet. There is a site to bring the author into the classroom virtually called WETA. This site has over 40 videos teaching children to learn along with author interviews for each of the stories read.
Over all the internet is taking literature to a new level and way of teaching a learning. It is important that children have a balanced experience of holding literature in their hands as well as experiencing it virtually. There comes pros and cons to each, however we must embrace all different point of views and take it for what is is-the future.
