What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--And All the Best Times to Read Them

The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives.

In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for children to begin to reflectively engage with and understand the world around them. Not only can parents entertain their child and convey the beauty of language through books, they can also share their values and create lasting connections.

Here, Allyn offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children—taking into account a child’s age, attention ability, gender, and interests— along with techniques for reading aloud effectively. But what sets this book apart is the extraordinary, annotated list of more than three hundred titles suitable for the pivotal moments in a child’s life. With category themes ranging from friendship and journeys to thankfulness, separations, silliness, and spirituality, What to Read When is a one-of-a-kind guide to how parents can best inspire children through reading together. In addition, Pam Allyn includes an indispensable “Reader’s Ladder” section, with recommendations for children at every stage from birth to age ten. With the author’s warm and engaging voice throughout, discussion questions to encourage in-depth conversations, as well as advice on helping kids make the transition to independent reading, this book will help shape thoughtful, creative, and curious children, imparting a love of reading that will last a lifetime.

These Penguin Young Reader's Books are referenced in What to Read When

• #LINK<Sylvia Jean: Drama Queen ># by Lisa Campbell Ernst (Penguin Young Reader’s Group: 2005)
• #LINK<Two Is For Twins>#, by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, illustrations by Hiroe Nakata (Penguin Young Readers: 2006)
• Remember Grandma? by Laura Langston (Penguin Group (USA): May 2004)
• #LINK<Soul Looks Back in Wonder >#compiled by Tom Feelings (Puffin Books)
• #LINK<Time of Wonder >#by Robert McCloskey (Penguin Books USA, Incorporated: December 1957)
• #LINK<When I was Young in the Mountains>#by Cynthia Rylant illustrated by Diane Goode (Penguin Young Readers Group: January 1993)
• #LINK<Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs >#by Tomie DePaola (Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, Inc.:1973)
• #LINK<Good Night, Good Knight># by Shelly Moore Thomas, illustrations by Jennifer Plecas (Penguin Young Readers Group: 2002)
• Synopsis:
  Award-winning educator Allyn offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children--taking into account a child's age, attention ability, gender, and interests--along with techniques for reading aloud effectively.

  Synopsis:

  An award-winning educator celebrates the power of reading aloud to children, and offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children along with techniques for reading aloud effectively.
  
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  About the Author

  Pam Allyn is the founder and executive director of LitLife, an internationally recognized organization that trains hundreds of K-12 teachers each year in literacy techniques. She is also the founding director of Books for Boys, an award-winning mentoring and reading initiative at the Childre‛s Village. The recipient of a Points of Light Award from the Bush Foundation and two James Patterson Pageturner awards, Allyn speaks frequently to parents, teachers, and librarians at major conferences, and has also appeared on the Today show.
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Product Details

ISBN:

9781583333341

Subtitle:

The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read TThem

Author:

Allyn, Pam

Publisher:

Avery Trade

Subject:

Parenting - Child Rearing

Subject:

Elementary

Subject:

Children

Subject:

Reading

Subject:

Parenting - General

Subject:

Children's Literature - General

Subject:

Reading (Early childhood)

Subject:

Oral reading

Subject:

Child Care

Subject:

Child Care and Parenting-General

Copyright:

2009

Edition Description:

Mass Market

Publication Date:

20090402

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Pages:

336

Dimensions:

9.06x5.99x.90 in. .75 lbs.

Age Level:

from 18