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THE POWER OF READING

10 FACTS EVERY TEACHER & PARENT MUST KNOW

EMAIL: jimmckenzie@trsonline.org

“Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.”

• --Neil Postman, 1985
• We are raising the most distracted

generation in the history of the world.

• ADD/ADHD is the most common

diagnosis of children today.

In a search for answers, we’re asking ourselves the wrong question.

Overcome by an externally imposed oppression Overcome by an externally imposed oppression People will love their oppression & adore the technology that undoes their capacities to think Feared those who would ban books No reason to ban a book,
 for there would be no one who wanted to read one Feared those who would ban books Feared those who would deprive us of information Feared those who would deprive us of information Feared those who would give us so much information we would be reduce to passivity and egoism

Feared the truth would be concealed from us Feared the truth would be concealed from us Feared the truth would be lost in a sea of irrelevance People are controlled by inflicting pain People are controlled by inflicting pain What we hate will ruin us People are controlled by inflicting pain People are controlled by inflicting pleasure What we hate will ruin us People are controlled by inflicting pain People are controlled by inflicting pleasure What we hate will ruin us What we love will ruin us

Are we on the verge of amusing

• urselves to death?

“There is a big difference between processing information on a printed page compared with processing data converge through a series of moving

• pictures. Images have a way of

evoking an emotional response. Pictures have a way of pushing rational discourse into the background.” “The chief aim of television is to sell products and entertain audiences. It is designed to be amusing. Substance gives way to sounds and sights. Hard facts are undermined by stirring feelings. Important issues are drowned out by dramatic images. Reason is replaced by emotion.” “A church cut from its word-based heritage and a nation stripped of word- based modes of learning do not have the rhetorical or mental resources to guard against despotism.”

“Our image-saturated culture is at risk of being preyed upon by a tyrant in waiting.”

• The Judeo-Christian heritage is

characteristically word-dependent.

• Movements like the Protestant

Reformation, Puritanism, and the birthing of America were all created and sustained in an environment that transmitted its ideas through words.

WORD-DEPENDENT

IMAGE-DEPENDENT

• Paganism is typically image-dependent
• As people trust experience and visual

representations, they focus less on content and more on sensory appeal.

• Historical shifts to emphasize image have
• ccurred during periods like the Dark Ages.
• As the word, both written and spoken, is

devalued, there is a renewed descent into paganism.

THE POWER OF READING

A COMMUNITY OF READERS CAN BE A POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCE

The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the smarter you grow. The smarter you are, the longer you stay in school. The longer you stay in school, the more diplomas
 you earn and the longer you are employed, thus
 making more money in a lifetime. The more diplomas you earn, the higher your


• wn children’s grades eventually will be in school.

The more diplomas you earn, the longer you live.

THE POWER OF READING

10 FACTS EVERY TEACHER & PARENT MUST KNOW

#1: Reading is the most important subject in school. A child needs reading to master most of the other subjects. #1: Reading is the most important subject in school. A child needs reading to master most of the other subjects.

#2: Across the world, children who read the most, read the best. And that includes all social levels. #3: Humans are pleasure-seekers, doing things over and

• ver if we like it.

Make sure they like reading more than they hate it.

REWARDS:

• Pleasure
• Escape
• Information
• Prestige
• Grades/Salary

DIFFICULTIES:

• Distractions
• Lack of Print
• Lack of Time
• Disabilities
• Noise Level

What nation has the highest per-capita readership in world? What nation has the highest per-capita readership in world?

JAPAN

a commuting nation
 (time & opportunity)

What nation has the highest per-capita readership in world?

Technological distractions have created a sudden & dramatic drop in readership in spite of high literacy rates.

What nation has the highest per-capita readership in world?

Technological distractions have created a sudden & dramatic drop in readership in spite of high literacy rates. A cautionary tale for every parent bent on saddling an easily- distracted child with every new tech-gadget.

#4: Read aloud to them, even as infants. As the child grows, so too does the time you should spend reading in one sitting.

“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.” “Reading aloud is a practice that should continue throughout the grades.”

Phonics = “how to” (mechanics)
 Read Aloud = “want-to” (motivation)

We read aloud to children for the same reasons we talk with them:

• to reassure
• entertain
• bond
• inform
• arouse curiosity
• and inspire.

Phonics = “how to” (mechanics)
 Read Aloud = “want-to” (motivation)

But reading aloud goes further than conversation when it:

• conditions the child to associate reading

with pleasure

• creates background knowledge
• builds “book” vocabulary
• Provides a reading role model

• 1. It makes a pleasure connection between

child and print.
 


Evident even with infants.

• 1. It makes a pleasure connection between

child and print.
 


Evident even with infants.

• 2. It enlarges vocabulary.

“And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.” (Genesis 8:3)

• 1. It makes a pleasure connection between

child and print.
 


Evident even with infants.

• 2. It enlarges vocabulary.

“And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.” (Genesis 8:3)


• 3. It stretches the attention span.

Story Time in the K3 Preschool Class

“The best SAT preparation course in the world is to read aloud to your children in bed when they are little. Eventually, if that’s a wonderful experience for them, they’ll start to read for themselves.”

• -- Tom Parker, Admissions Director at Amherst College

“The best SAT preparation course in the world is to read aloud to your children in bed when they are little. Eventually, if that’s a wonderful experience for them, they’ll start to read for themselves.”

• -- Tom Parker, Admissions Director at Amherst College

Tom Parker also claims that he’s never met a student with high verbal SAT scores who wasn’t a passionate reader. An ACT or SAT prep class can’t package that passion, but teachers and parents can.

#5: Listening comprehension comes before reading comprehension. You must hear a word before you can say it or read and write it.

There’s a kind of “word reservoir” in a child’s brain and one of the jobs

• f a parent is to pour so

many words into it that it

• verflows into speech

and then reading and writing. There’s a kind of “word reservoir” in a child’s brain and one of the jobs

• f a parent is to pour so

many words into it that it

• verflows into speech

and then reading and writing. #6: Children usually read on one level and listen on a higher level. It’s usually not until 8th grade that the reading level catches up to the listening level.

#7: Children with the most print have the highest reading scores. #7: Children with the most print have the highest reading scores.

They also use the library more than those with lower scores.

Reading families use the 3 B’s to help with the 3 R’s. Books, Bathroom, & Bed Lamps. Reading families use the 3 B’s to help with the 3 R’s. Books, Bathroom, & Bed Lamps. #8: There is a strong connection between over- viewing of screen time and under-achieving in school. Those who watch the most know the least.

A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that among all 8- to 18-year-olds the average length

• f media exposure each day was

10 hours and 45 minutes. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that among all 8- to 18-year-olds the average length

• f media exposure each day was

10 hours and 45 minutes.

For each hour of daily TV viewed by infants and toddlers, the risk

• f ADHD by age 7 increased by

10 percent. 59% of children two or younger watch TV daily and 42% watch DVDs or videos.

Average screen time for children two or younger is 2 hours and 48 minutes. In homes with children age six or younger, the TV is left on at least 50% of the time, even if no one is

• watching. 30% have the TV on

“almost all” or “most” of the time. 30% of three-year-olds and 43% of six- year-olds have a TV in their bedrooms.

Is there a safe amount


• f TV for children?

Is there a safe amount


• f TV for children?

The Magic Number: 
 10 hours weekly

Based on a research analysis of 23 studies with 87,025 children, showing no detrimental effects on learning from TV viewing up to 10 hours a week, after which scores begin to decline.

#9: Students need to read for pleasure, not just for school studies. 
 Sustained Silent Reading is essential to developing good reading habits.

78% of high school students spend less than three hours a week reading anything for school, including 68% of college-prep students. Only 27% of high school students advance beyond
 their freshmen year of college. What the numbers say:

• Among 4th graders, only 54% read for pleasure daily.
• Among 8th graders, only 30% read for pleasure daily.
• By 12th grade, only 19% read for pleasure daily.
• --National Reading Report Card

#10: We must model good reading habits for

• ur children.

A 2012 study found that only 50%

• f adults surveyed had read a book

in the previous year.

HIGH INTEREST ACTIVITY OBSERVED BY STUDENTS LOW INTEREST

95.2% Mother Reads Novels 10.5% 62.5% Father Reads Novels 8.8% 39.3% Mother Watches TV 63.2%

KINDERGARTEN STUDY

A COMMUNITY OF READERS

“A school’s objective should be to create lifetime readers – graduates who continue to read and educate themselves throughout their adult lives. But, the reality is that we create school-time readers – graduates who know how to read well enough to graduate. At that point, the majority take a silent vow: if I never read another book, it’ll be too soon.”

• --Jim Trelease

READ ALOUD PROGRAM

• Parent reads out loud to a child for at

least 20 minutes.


• Read Aloud is completed at least five

nights a week.


• Books are based on the child’s

listening comprehension.


• Read Aloud form is used to record

participation and is a part of the reading grade.

SUSTAINED SILENT READING

• Independent reading completed
• utside of school.

• Books selected based on child’s

reading level and interests.


• Minutes = points to redeem monthly

at the “Stuff Store.”


• Not required and not a part of the

reading grade.

TV TURN-OFF WEEK

• The last week of each month.

• Zero Screen Time (no movies, computer,

games, TV, etc.)


• Bonus points at “Stuff Store.”

• Observed at school and at home.

• Families need a media plan!


(remember the magic number)

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THE POWER OF READING

10 FACTS EVERY TEACHER & PARENT MUST KNOW

EMAIL: jimmckenzie@trsonline.org