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Reading Magic: How Your Child Can Learn to Read Before School - and Other Read-aloud Miracles is a 2001 book by Mem Fox.In it, Fox propounds reading books aloud to children from when they are babies to after they can read by themselves.
Years later I saw some of the famous McGuffey readers, go back further, things that my mother's generation would read from in the 1930s or 1920s, and those things were filled with real stories from real writers that the kids were learning. But my generation, the baby boomers, we had Dick and Jane, and that couldn't convince me to keep reading.
Some will actually read an entire story aloud. These "virtual libraries have done a lot to both preserve books and make them more available. Here are a few examples of some interactive e-book sites for children: Magic Keys Books; Raz-Kids Books; Tumble Books; Even older classic books are moving to online to keep up with the times. [14] [15]
Reading Rainbow is an American educational children's television series that originally aired on PBS and afterward PBS Kids from July 11, 1983 [1] [2] to November 10, 2006, with reruns continuing to air until August 28, 2009. 155 30-minute episodes were produced over 23 seasons.
Ready to Read with Pooh is a 1997 interactive CD-ROM video game developed by Disney Interactive's Victoria studio that helps children from ages three to six, learn to read. [1] [2] There are nine activities in the game. When the player completes an activity successfully, they will receive an item that goes into a treehouse.
Look and Read is a BBC Television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills. [1] The programme presents fictional stories in a serial format, the first of which was broadcast in 1967 and the most recent in 2004, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast programme for schools in the United Kingdom.
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Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." [2] It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. [3] It has been translated into at least five languages and has been followed by five sequels.