Now in its 8th edition, edited and updated by education specialist Cyndi Giorgis, The Read-Aloud Handbook serves the same goal, with new content for today's parents and educators. Its initial purpose was to educate parents and teachers on the impact that reading aloud to children can have, as well as to suggest some excellent books for reading aloud. The product of his investigation and research is this title, first published in 1979. One day, almost by accident, he stumbled onto several realizations: most children are rarely or never read to children that are read to tend to become livelong, avid readers and children who don't read or are never read to often lag way behind in both their reading and verbal skills. Author Jim Trelease was also a dad who read aloud to his kids because he enjoyed it, and because his father had read to him when he was a young boy. The Little House books, Beverley Cleary's books, and other "classics" were always entertaining to hear aloud, even though most of us had already read them for ourselves (maybe it was Dad's voices). Although Dad worked full-time and didn't spend much time with us in the classroom, he always tried to work in reading before bedtime. When my sisters and I were younger, there weren't many things that could beat Dad reading to us.
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