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These are the footnotes for a brief excerpt from Chapter 2 of
The Read-Aloud Handbook (Penguin, 2006, 6th edition).

Footnotes for CHAPTER TWO

(When to begin and end read-aloud)

  1. These remarks were made during a half-hour interview (September 3, 1979) with Dr. Brazelton conducted by John Merrow for "Options in Education," a co-production of National Public Radio and the Institute for Educational Leadership of the George Washington University.
  2. Dorothy Butler, Cushla and Her Books (Boston: The Horn Book, 1980).

  3. "Oral Comprehension Sets the Ceiling on Reading Comprehension," by Andrew Biemiller, American Educator, Spring 2003; www.aft.org/american_eduator/spring2003/biemiller.html
  4. Nell K. Duke, “For the Rich It’s Richer: Print Experiences and Environments Offers to children in Very Low- and Very High-Socioeconomic Status First-Grade Classrooms,” American Educational Research Journal, Summer, 2000, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 441-478.

  5. Donald Roberts, Ph.D., and others, Kids & Media @ The New Millennium (Menlo Park, CA: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, November 1999). Also at www.kff.org/content/1999/1535/ChartPack.pdf. See also: Victoria J. Rideout, Elizabeth A. Vandewater and Ellen A. Wartella, Zero to Six: Electronic media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers (Menlo Park, CA: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2003) online at: http://www.kff.org. Thirty-five percent of all families with young children now eat their meals with the television on "always" or "most of the time."
  6. Lesley Mandel Morrow, "Home and School Correlates of Early Interest in Literature," Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 76, March/April 1983, pp. 221-230.
  7. Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott, Ian A. G. Wilkinson, Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading, U.S. Department of Education (Champaign-Urbana, IL: Center for the Study of Reading, 1985), p. 51.
  8. G. Robert Carlsen and Anne Sherrill, Voices of Readers: How We Come to Love Books, National Council of Teachers of English (Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1988).
  9. Andrew Biemiller, "Oral Comprehension Sets the Ceiling on Reading Comprehension," American Educator, Spring 2003, online at: http://www.aft.org/american_eduator/spring2003/biemiller.html. See also: Thomas G. Devine, “Listening: What Do We Know After Fifty Years of Research and Theorizing?” Journal of Reading, January 1978, pp. 296–304.
  10. The original dust-jacket copy for The Cat in the Hat included the words “many children . . . will discover for the first time that they don’t need to be read to any more,” as noted in Judith and Neil Morgan's Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel (New York, NY: Random House, 1995), p. 155.

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