Read for Education, Enlightenment, and Pleasure
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"The more that you read, the more things
you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
Interesting Facts/Sites
When Sean Connery was learning his craft, he would go to the libraries and read the classics. Reading the great authors works helped him become successful in his chosen profession. Here is another link to classic literature. Reading leads to understanding - understanding leads to success and hopefully to wisdom. Please use all of our reading links for resources and research. http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/classic_literature
Books a Million http://www.booksamillion.com/ Davis Kidd Bookstore http://www.daviskidd.com/ Fantastic Fiction http://www.fantasticfiction.com Barnes and Nobel http://www.bn.com Amazon http://www.amazon.com Authors on the Web http://www.authorsontheweb.com/ Children's Authors and Illustrators on the Web http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html Yahoo Directory for Authors http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/ American Society of Journalist and Freelance writers http://www.asja.org/ Scholastic Authors and Authors Studies Homepage http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml Authors and Much More www.eWoss.com
Become a Writer - Explore all the Possibilities - Search For Majors www.CollegeBoard.com Classics online http://www.literature.org/authors/ Native American Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/ Kid Authors http://www.kidauthors.com/ A celebration for Women writers http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html African American Authors http://www.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/afam.html Complete African American Author Listing http://authors.aalbc.com/more_authors.htm
The Importance of Reading for Pleasure
Reading research underscores why it’s important to encourage reading for pleasure outside of tutoring or teaching sessions. Some insights from research are:
•People learn to read by reading. Skill building is important, but without practice putting all the skills together, learning is slowed down. Quantity and intensity matter.
•Frequent practice reading for longer periods of time pays off in fluency and ability to use skills automatically.
•Increasing competence is motivating and increased motivation leads to more reading. When students can see their own progress, they want to read more.
•Pleasure reading has cognitive benefits. It improves skill and strategy use, builds fluency, enlarges vocabulary, and builds a student’s knowledge of the world.
•An in-class focus on outside reading can help students to read more outside of class. When tutors and teachers set aside time for pleasure reading as part of their instruction time, students are more likely to read for pleasure on their own.
-Adapted from Laubach LitScape, a publication of Laubach Literacy Action, Winter 2002.
How to Read a Book
Great Sites for learning how to read a book.
http://flan.csusb.edu/dept/RBurke/how_to_read.htm
http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/read.a.book.htm
