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Showing there is so much, much more to Reading than that which can ever be stipulated in any Curriculum, and why reading aloud to children is absolutely necessary. (A short thread...)
@OpenUni_RfP @TeresaCremin @nikkigamble
@Mat_at_Brookes @jonnybid @Jo_Bowers
Showing there is so much, much more to Reading than that which can ever be stipulated in any Curriculum, and why reading aloud to children is absolutely necessary. (A short thread...)
@OpenUni_RfP @TeresaCremin @nikkigamble
@Mat_at_Brookes @jonnybid @Jo_Bowers
I've been reading @mossmontmomery's 'Christmas Dinner of Souls' to my class as their final book of the term. It's going down very well.
Today we read 'Bad Uncle Mortimer'. Afterwards, one of the children put their hand up and said, musing: 'Mortimer, that's an unusual name..."
Today we read 'Bad Uncle Mortimer'. Afterwards, one of the children put their hand up and said, musing: 'Mortimer, that's an unusual name..."
"It sounds like 'mortal'" We talked for a minute about the root 'mort'...and how indeed this character lives up to his name in a gruesome death at the end.
*Quietly satisfied noises of "Oh, yeaaahhhh," fill the classroom!*
*Quietly satisfied noises of "Oh, yeaaahhhh," fill the classroom!*
After a bit more chat about the book, the first child puts up their hand again: "I've been thinking...Mortimer...if you break it into pieces it says 'More Time (r)" which is what the character asks for at the end too. To ask his family for forgiveness. He always wants more...."
Which indeed he does, and actually forms the crux of the story and the character's motivation.
I'd never thought of this at all. (Did you, @mossmontmomery ?)
What's this got to do with reading? Well, it's the valuable - no, essential - part of reading: the book chat...
I'd never thought of this at all. (Did you, @mossmontmomery ?)
What's this got to do with reading? Well, it's the valuable - no, essential - part of reading: the book chat...
...that connects interpretations and wonder to one's reading.
It's the aural sound of words read aloud that stimulates connection of word to word, phrase to phrase, story to story.
It's the *possibilities* of the written word: is this what his name means? Are names important?
It's the aural sound of words read aloud that stimulates connection of word to word, phrase to phrase, story to story.
It's the *possibilities* of the written word: is this what his name means? Are names important?
I know I'm a passionate advocate of reading aloud (and thanks if you've got this far in the thread!) but when I heard those two comments today my heart sang. And I could hear a reader changing, developing...for life.
*This* is what we need to develop in our children as readers.
*This* is what we need to develop in our children as readers.
