Synopses & Reviews
Avid readers are fluent readers: they absorb information more easily, they write better, they perform better on standardized tests.
In Keeping Kids Reading, Mary Leonhardt shows parents how to instill a love of reading in their children and how to nurture that love, in spite of the temptations of television, video games, and computers. Based on observation and interviews with students and more than twenty-five years in the classroom, Leonhardt has formulated an innovative new concept called "reading pathways" that facilitates parents' understanding of their children's taste in books. Once you recognize your children's reading patterns, you'll find it easy, using Leonardt's methods, to appeal to their individual tastes and help move them along the path to a lifelong love of reading.
Synopsis
Keeping Kids Reading begins with the observation that as kids develop their taste in reading, they tend to follow certain "reading pathways". For example, girls who binge on Sweet Valley High books typically go on to like books dealing with contemporary relationships and problems, while girls who begin with a fondness for warm and nostalgic stories like those by Laura Ingalls Wilder go on to love historical novels and romances. Leonhardt discusses how parents and teachers can take advantage of a number of such reading pathways to help students move up to more sophisticated material while retaining their enthusiasm for reading.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.
About the Author
Mary Leonhardt, the author of Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't; 99 Ways to Get Your Kids to Love Reading; and 99 Ways to Get Your Kids to Love Writing, has taught English in public, private, and parochial schools for twenty-eight years.