How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esmé Raji Codell

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Middle-grade books (ages 8-12) are possibly acceptable if the main characters are at least twelve. Selections may be fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry, but they should be published for ages 12 and up.

If this is the case, you can make special requests through my Contact Me page, and I will do my best to complete your review within two weeks. And because reviewing books is somewhat time-consuming, you may not find the the review you're looking for. Codell's creative thinking and infectious enthusiasm will empower even the busiest parents and children to include literature in their lives.The books reviewed for What's In It? are chosen by the reviewers themselves, according to personal interest. There are book lists galore, with subject-driven reading recommendations for science, math, cooking, nature, adventure, music, weather, gardening, sports, mythology, poetry, history, biography, fiction, and fairy tales. This five-hundred-page volume is brimming with themes for superlative storytimes and book-based birthday parties, ideas for mad-scientist experiments and half-pint cooking adventures, stories for reluctant readers and book groups for boys, step-by-step instructions for book parades, book-related crafts, storytelling festivals, literature-based radio broadcasts, readers' theater, and more. Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through eighth grade. She's turned her years of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help parents get their kids excited about reading. Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on.Įsmé Raji Codell-an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher-has the solution.

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esmé Raji Codell