The Read-Aloud Handbook
Handbook
By: Jim Trelease
Date: 1985
Source: Trelease, Jim. The Read-Aloud Handbook. New York: Penguin, 1985, 14–17.
About the Author: Jim Trelease (1941–) has written and lectured widely about the importance of reading. He was educated at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1963) and spent several years working as a journalist. Trelease began Reading Tree Productions in 1983. The International Reading Association honored Trelease in 1989 as one of the people who had made the biggest difference in reading in the 1980s.
Introduction
Jim Trelease began his journey to discover and write about the importance of reading aloud to children as a parent of small children. Parents like Trelease have known the value of reading aloud to small children for generations. His concern grew for those children who did not have this opportunity and who had not...
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