The Read Aloud Handbook - Softcover

Trelease, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143037390 ISBN 13: 9780143037392

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2006

Synopsis

A new sixth edition of the acclaimed literacy handbook explains the importance of reading aloud to children while offering guidance on how to set up a read-aloud atmosphere in the home or classroom and presenting more than 1,500 children's titles that are ideal for reading aloud. Original. 60,0000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Before retiring from the lecture circuit in 2008, Jim Trelease spent thirty years addressing parents, teachers, and librarians on the subjects of children, literature, and the challenges of multimedia to print. Initially self-published in 1979, The Read-Aloud Handbook has had seven American editions as well as British, Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, and Spanish editions. Trelease is also the editor of two popular read-aloud anthologies for Penguin: Hey! Listen to This, for grades K-4, and Read All About It! , for preteens and teens.In 2010, Penguin Books named The Read-Aloud Handbook as one of the seventy-five most important books it published in its seventy-five-year history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143037390
• ISBN 13: 9780143037392
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 340