Comments on: Book of the week! http://funinreading.wordpress.com We all love to read! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:14:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: BK http://funinreading.wordpress.com/book-of-the-week/#comment-4 BK Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:27:15 +0000 http://funinreading.wordpress.com/book-of-the-week/#comment-4 Novels written by Beverly Cleary are often a big hit with grade three students (especially girls). I would read aloud her novels to my grade three students as they often would lead us to discussions that the students easily related to. One novel that the students particularly were interested in was Ramona Quimbly, Age 8. In addition, this novel has been made into a movie and is available at the Regina Public Library. Reading aloud the novel and following it up by viewing the movie, provided the opportunity to compare and contrast their perceptions of the characters to those depicted in the movie. As a parent I often read novels aloud to my children and follow them up by watching the movie. More often than not, after comparing the two, my children tend to enjoy the text much more than the movie itself. This serves as a great method to make children aware of the value reading a picture book or novel has over just simply watching the movie. Children begin to value the description and interpretation of the language within a text to their own personal experiences and background knowledge resulting in the child making more meaningful connections with the story line. Novels written by Beverly Cleary are often a big hit with grade three students (especially girls). I would read aloud her novels to my grade three students as they often would lead us to discussions that the students easily related to. One novel that the students particularly were interested in was Ramona Quimbly, Age 8. In addition, this novel has been made into a movie and is available at the Regina Public Library.

Reading aloud the novel and following it up by viewing the movie, provided the opportunity to compare and contrast their perceptions of the characters to those depicted in the movie. As a parent I often read novels aloud to my children and follow them up by watching the movie. More often than not, after comparing the two, my children tend to enjoy the text much more than the movie itself. This serves as a great method to make children aware of the value reading a picture book or novel has over just simply watching the movie. Children begin to value the description and interpretation of the language within a text to their own personal experiences and background knowledge resulting in the child making more meaningful connections with the story line.

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