MOORESTOWN
FRIENDS SPEAKER
TO SHARE TIPS
ON GETTING CHILDREN TO READ
MOORESTOWN,
NJ -- Moorestown Friends will host Jim Trelease,
internationally recognized author of the best-selling The
New Read-Aloud Handbook, at 7 p.m. Thurs., Nov.
10, in the school’s Dining Hall/Commons.
His
presentation is entitled “Reading Aloud: Motivating
Children To Make Books Into Friends, Not Enemies.” The
visit is sponsored by Moorestown Friends School and
its Parent Council. The event is free and open to
the public.
Trelease’s
writing about reading has appeared in The Reading
Teacher and Parents magazines. He is
an inspiring speaker who brings enthusiasm for reading
to all ages and abilities. He combines personal experiences
and research with dynamic delivery.
“American
literacy scores are due in large part to the fact
that two-thirds of our children don’t like to
read,” Trelease notes. “No player in
the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The
desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The
last 25 years of research show that reading aloud
to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful
method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets
with a child creates a basketball player; reading
to a child creates a reader.”
For 20 years,
Trelease was an award-winning artist and writer for a daily newspaper in New
England. During that time, he regularly visited classrooms to talk about the
joys of reading. Those visits, combined with nightly reading to his own two
children, became the springboards to his national bestseller, which spent 17
weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. |
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Jim Trelease,
author
of The New Read-Aloud Handbook
will present
"Reading Aloud:
Motivating
Children To Make Books
Into Friends,
Not Enemies"
at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 10
in the
Moorestown Friends School
Dining Hall/Commons. |
There
are nearly two million copies of The New Read-Aloud
Handbook in print, including four American editions,
as well as British, Australian, Chinese and Japanese
editions. It is the all-time
best-selling guide to children’s literature for parents and teachers.
PBS has used the book as a springboard for its ”Storytime” show
and since 1985, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia
and Hawaii have developed state-wide programs based
upon it.
Among
the topics Trelease will address are:
• The
best books to read aloud.
• How
to control TV viewing.
• If
comic books “count” as reading.
• How
sports-obsessed dads can help a child to read.
• What
you should do about reading in bed.
• If
you should consider a commercial phonics program.
Moorestown
Friends School, 110 E. Main St., is a coed independent
Quaker day school founded in 1785 that serves three-year-olds
through 12th grade. Its curriculum fosters intellectual
curiosity, independence and ethical growth. The school
offers an academically rigorous program balanced
by strong offerings in athletics, the arts and community
service.
Directions
to the school, 110 E. Main Street in Moorestown,
can be found at: http://www.mfriends.org/aboutmfs/directions.html.
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