"Education today is embracing what we call a 'whole language approach,' in which children read books they enjoy, versus books they're told to read for teaching's sake, and Geisel's books are central to that theory".
"For example, we have to strike a balance between teaching phonics and reading for meaning and pleasure".
How to teach… reading for pleasure So many great ideas here to encourage reluctant readers to pick up a lifelong reading habit and to turn your school into a reading school.
In the trailer for his 2010 novel "Super Sad True Love Story," which featured James Franco and a slew of famous writers, he played a Russian-accented version of himself who knew how to navigate the literary world despite the fact that he couldn't read (for example, by teaching a seminar at Columbia on how to behave at Paris Review parties).
If you were wondering about the parentage of Chloe Schama, the dedication in her debut book should confirm your suspicions: it reads, "For my father, who taught me how to tell a story".
One read: "Thank you for teaching me to dance".
His mother, Yvonne, hid her Jewish heritage from him but taught him to read for pleasure.
When I was 3 1/2 years old my mother taught me to read, for she was a compulsive reader and I was always interrupting her when she was concentrating on her reading and she thought that if I knew how to read, I would be so absorbed by reading, the way she was, that I would leave her alone.
He is also an unusual model for an artist, being one for whom creating objects in the studio and dynamic situations outside it are equally important, and for whom reading, teaching, talking and writing are all part of a larger something called art.
"For reading to me, and teaching me to love literature".
