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  • Re: anonymous snarks!

    A review is fair game. The vast majority of posts have been discussing ideas about comic books or graphic novels in an intelligent, reasoned way. The review does not put comic books in any form of historical context. They were a young medium in the fifties, aimed almost exclusively at young readers. Would you compare a fifties computer with ...
    Posted to Books by emsbrooklyn on August 19, 2009

  • Re: Emily's theory

    Emily and friends, I understand your theory but it is totally off base. Children learn to read by listening to language. As you have discovered, the books that you are reading aloud have a richer language and plot than the limited language readers. Children need both. Emergent readers need to hear the sounds of the words. If you are tired of ...
    Posted to Family by children's librarian on March 8, 2009

  • Stoopid Study about Neat Houses and kids who read

    Baloney! That's all women need is more pressure to spend their time scrubbing toilets. Obviously, women who have the time and inclination to keep a clean home have TIME. Time to read to their kids - time to clean the grout. If they did a study on neat houses - they'd probably also find that these houses have a higher income level with the ability ...
    Posted to Family by cband on March 3, 2009

  • messy early reader

    Well my son was reading fluently in two languages by the time he started kindergarten, and my house is a hopeless mess. So that theory doesn't hold much weight with me. What makes people avid readers is still something of a mystery. I don't believe it has anything to do with habits, condition, or executive functions. If I were a brain ...
    Posted to Family by julwat on February 27, 2009

  • Re: That "gleamed with his jism" line ...

    Loved the commentary on Updike. I read Rabbit Run and had the misfortune of reading Rabbit Redux. I was younger when I read the books and what I finally gleamed from it was that men are preoccupied with what is essentially a muscle that has little hope of ever getting bigger with excercise. I really liked the reviewers crack about Updike hoping ...
    Posted to Obit by jeqal on February 11, 2009

  • Teaching Your Child to Read

    If you have 10 minutes a day to devote to helping your child read, I highly recommend the following book: http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985 My wife used this with our five-year-old son, and he's now a fluent decoder. It's well worth the $15 price tag.
    Posted to Family by gadfly1974 on January 2, 2009

  • Preschoolers: You CAN Read

    I once had a preschooler tell me, ''I can't read . . . '' because he had somehow gotten the idea that 1) reading was something you learned once you went to school and 2) reading had to involve a book. I think it's empowering to help small children come to view themselves as readers. Most of them CAN recognize at least a few words of environmental ...
    Posted to Family by shonagon on January 2, 2009

  • Kids Don't Read Books in School (What, you didn't know?)

    Okay, people, I want to tell you something that many of you don't know: kids don't read books in school. They read excerpts of books in state-adopted reading programs. I call this phenomenon Starving on Snacks. Entire books (full meals), read with the whole class, teacher-and-student lead discussion, getting to know characters, studying plot, ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Angela Norton Tyler on December 19, 2008

  • Re: Praise for George Guidall

    I can't read an article about audiobooks without wanting to tell the world about Will Patton reading the Dave Robicheaux novels by James Lee Burke. He employs numerous different flavors of Louisiana patois and it's almost always easy to tell who's speaking. Even his female characters are distinctly feminine and different from each other. ...
    Posted to Culturebox by joeurb on September 18, 2008

  • 7 letter word

    If this article is what reading is about, I'm going back to my puzzle!
    Posted to The Spectator by imiltonk on August 26, 2008
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