oral reading

Describes the benefits of read-aloud instruction in math, social studies, language arts, and science, and explains how to implement it, providing twelve units--three in each subject area--with summaries of over four hundred recommended titles.

Selections for reading aloud from poems, novels, and plays by Blake, Longfellow, O. Henry, Twain, Shakespeare, Poe, and other well-known authors.

Selections, including some rewritten for reading aloud, from poems, novels, and plays by Homer, Mallory, Shakespeare, Dickens, Hawthorne, Twain, and other well-known authors.

Provides teachers, librarians, and parents with tips, techniques, activities, and more than fifty read-aloud plans for picture books and beginning reader books that can be used with children in first and second grade.

Alice Ozma tells the story of how she and her father, an elementary school librarian, set a goal when she was in fourth grade of reading together for one hundred consecutive nights and continued on until she went away to college, and discusses the bond that developed between her and her dad, and the life lessons she learned from their time together.

Contains twelve readers' theater scripts about ancient leaders and famous people from America and around the world that are designed to promote fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills in sixth- through eighth-grade students; and includes lesson plans and an interactive, whiteboard-compatible teacher resource CD with scripts and graphic organizers.

Discusses the power of reading aloud, explaining why it is important to read to and with children, and identifying four keys to helping children become lifelong readers; features tips on how to read aloud, with advice on what to read at each age from birth to ten years; and provides an annotated listing of over three hundred recommended books, grouped by theme.