Jim Trelease Read Aloud Handouts about Reading

"Do you have a free handout about reading
that we can give parents at our school?"

o many teachers and administrators asked Jim Trelease that question, one of his first retirement projects was to create a series of such free handouts. Based on his books, lectures, and films, the tri-fold double-sided brochures are aimed at parents, teachers, librarians—even future teachers and parents.

Written in an uncomplicated, to-the-point style, along with some of the charts and statistics Jim has used in his books and lectures, the brochures are free for downloading and may be easily duplicated by nonprofit institutions dealing with parents and community members.

The subject matter includes:

• Why reading is the most important subject in school;
• How a child becomes competent in reading;
• The importance of a child reading outside school;
• Why it's essential for parents to read aloud to children;
• Listening levels versus reading levels;
• How the mere presence of print in the home influences a child's reading skills;
• The negative impact of over-viewing of TV and video games;
• How TV's "closed-captioning" can help a child's reading;
• The positive effects of recorded books.
• The things to be sure to do when reading to children and the things to avoid;
• Why is it that some people read a lot and some (even very educated people) read very little?

How do we obtain the brochures?

First, email Jim Trelease (Jim Trelease) and seek permission to print the brochures, including in your correspondence the name and address of the requesting organization, its nonprofit status, and how it will be used. Jim's email response to you (usually within 48 hours) will allay any fears your printer may have about reprinting a copyrighted item. Then control/option-click on the name of the brochure below and the brochure's PDF file will be downloaded to your computer. Each is a megabyte in size and may take a minute to download. Burn it to a disc (or email it) for your printing facility. The item should be printed to both sides of a single sheet. It's easier than pie, if you've ever tried to bake a pie—a lot easier!

• Ten Facts Parents Should Know About Reading
• Why Read Aloud to Children?
• Thirty DO's to Remember When Reading Aloud
• A Dozen DON'Ts to Remember When Reading Aloud
• Why Some Read a Lot and Some Read Very Little (perfect for faculty/parent discussion)
• The Connection Between TV & School Scores
  
• Ages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
  

Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences

Source of Diagram above.

Musical/Rhythmic
Sing, dance, listen, and respond to music.
Develop musical abilities and talents and learn
to distinguish tone, mood, melody, and rhythm.
Rhyme, rap, chanting, dance, songs, & jump-rope rhymes.

Bodily/Kinesthetic
Touch and Movement.
Field trips, using manipulatives (dolls, dress-up,
build models, prepare food),
pantomime, role-playing, sign language.
Artistic and physical expression.

Interpersonal
Develop empathy and connection with other humans.
Co-operative learning, interviews, partner-reading,
inferences based on oral and body language,
discussions and group problem solving.

Intrapersonal
Awareness of abilities, interests, & strengths.
Metacognition, self-awareness, self-esteem,
pride, & self-evaluation of performance.

Visual/Spatial
Perceive three dimensional reality.
Visualization, architectural planning,
orienting to maps and directional cues,
planning and executing mazes,
imagining story maps, and planning
three-dimensional projects.

Logical/Mathmetical
Reasoning and logic.
Cause and effect awareness,
mathematical reasoning, number sense,
scientific thinking, and sequencing.

Verbal/Linguistic
Reading, oral speech, phonics, spelling, persuasion,
and composition skills of writing in poetry and prose.

Naturalist
The human ability to discriminate among
living things (plants, animals) as well as sensitivity to
other features of the natural world
(clouds, rock configurations, etc.).

Existential
Individuals who exhibit the proclivity to pose (and ponder)
questions about life, death, and ultimate realities.
Socratic questioning

Multiple Intelligences - TechTools & Software

The University of Rhode Island and

The Rhode Island Foundation

Teachers in Technology Initiative

RITTI-Fellows Research
November, 1999
Jane Carlson-Pickering
Coordinator/Teacher Multiple Intelligences & Technology
M.I. Smart! Program
Chariho Regional School District
jcpic@chariho.k12.ri.us
http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/curriculum/MISmart/mi_smart.htm

The following list provides examples of specific tools of the trade that are geared to activate different intelligence areas. Please keep in mind that this is merely a sampling of the thousands of software programs available for today's classrooms.

Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence - The capacity to use language, your native language, and perhaps other languages, to express what's on you mind and to understand other people. Poets really specialize in linguistic intelligence, but any kind of writer, orator, speaker, lawyer, or a person for whom language is an important stock in trade, highlights linguistic intelligence.

• Word processing programs
• E-mail programs
• Web Page Composers
• Multimedia Presentation tools
• Foreign Language programs
• Storybook CD's
• Typing tutors
• Desktop
• Electronic libraries
• Word games/programs

Logical/Mathematical- People with highly developed logical/mathematical intelligence understand the underlying principles of some kind of a causal system, the way a scientist or a logician does; or can manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations, the way a Mathematician does.

• Math skills tutorials
• Computer programming tutors
• Spreadsheets
• Map Making tools
• Data Bases
• Logic games
• Science programs
• Critical thinking programs
• Problem Solving programs

Visual/Spatial Intelligence- The ability to represent the spatial world internally in your mind – the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatial world. Spatial intelligence can be used in the arts or in the sciences. If you are spatially intelligent and oriented toward the arts, you are more likely to become a painter or sculptor or architect than, say a musician or a writer. Similarly, certain sciences like anatomy or topology emphasize spatial intelligence.

• Animation programs
• 3D modeling languages
• Clip Art programs
• Computer-aided visualizations
• Digital Cameras and Microscopes
• Draw & Paint programs
• Electronic chess games
• Modeling tools
• Research Group)
• Spatial problem solving games
• Electronic puzzle kits
• Geometry programs
• Digital Imagery/Graphics Programs
• Virtual Courseware

Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence- the capacity to use your whole body or parts of your body (your hands, your fingers, your arms), to solve a problem, make something, or put on some kind of production. The most evident examples are people in athletics or the performing arts, particularly when dancing or acting.

• Hands-on construction kits that interface with computers
• Motion-simulation games
• Virtual reality system software
• Eye-Hand coordination games
• Tools that plug into computers
• Haptic Tools

Note: Voice recognition programs may help the bodily/kinesthetic student create his "written" report while he paces back and forth across the floor. (Over the years I have observed that pacing commonly helps students with strong proclivities in this area, process information and think more clearly).

Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence- The capacity to think in music, to be able to hear patterns, recognize them, and perhaps manipulate them. People who have strong musical intelligence don't just remember music easily - they can't get it out of their minds, it's so omnipresent.

• Music literature tutors
• Singing software (voice synthesizer)
• Tone recognition and melody enhancers
• Musical instrument digital interfaces
• Create Your Own Music Programs

Interpersonal Intelligence- Interpersonal intelligence, is understanding other people. It's an ability we all need, but is at a premium if you are a teacher, clinician, salesperson, or a politician. Anybody who deals with other people has to be skilled in the interpersonal sphere.

• Electronic bulletin boards
• Simulation games
• E-mail programs

Intrapersonal Intelligence - Having an understanding of yourself, of knowing who you are, what you can do, what you want to do, how you react to things, which things to avoid, and which things to gravitate toward.

• Personal choice software
• Career counseling software
• Any self-paced program
• Downloadable multi-media applets

Naturalist Intelligence- The human ability to discriminate among living things (plants, animals) as well as sensitivity to other features of the natural world (clouds, rock configurations, etc.).

• Scientific plug-ins
• Nature sound and/or image files
• Classification of Flora/Fauna software
• Animal sounds identification programs
• Earth Science programs

Existential Intelligence- Individuals who exhibit the proclivity to pose (and ponder) questions about life, death, and ultimate realities. (Gardner only recently disclosed the existence of this intelligence area. I am unfamiliar with any software at this time that would focus primarily on this intelligence. Perhaps if there were programs that deal with Socratic questioning, they would fall into this category).

Also:

• Software such as the "Dr. Brain" series incorporates many of the above intelligences a
• Web sites that incorporate any/all of the above
• Videodiscs in any discipline can draw students into a topic in which they may not otherwise be interested.

Original Book Cover Art & Free Books

A FEAST for the Eyes

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

In searching for sources of free audio books, I found
Books Should Be Free and rushed to the Children's Category.

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/category.jsp?tag=4

Here I found a Treasure Chest of not only free text
(to continue reading on the screen or download as a plain text file)
and free audio MP3 files for downloading,
but also the original (perhaps) book cover art,
some of which are sampled here.
On the page, click on each for a larger view.

If nothing else, with your child compare (contrast)
the covers of Peter Pan or Anne of Green Gables
with the current ones
and talk about which s/he likes better and why.
MI: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal

Without having technical knowledge, we each know what appeals to us.
Explore the art in your library (MI:Kinesthesic, Visual) or online (MI: Visual).
And, no matter how you value Picasso,
at least for me, I agree with him -
art washes away from my soul
the dust of everyday life and fills it with beauty.
Give yourself and another this gift, won't you?

Classical Literature ZITS

So true…

February 4, 2009 by Zenobia

100 HELPFUL WEB TOOLS
FOR EVERY KIND OF LEARNER

VISUAL LEARNERS

Mind Mapping, Charting and Diagrams,
Videos and Photos

AUDITORY LEARNERS

Podcasts, Presentation Tools.
Audio Tools, Text Readers
Audio Books

KINESTHETIC LEARNERS

Note-Taking Tools, Bookmarking,
Interaction, Collaboration


http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/10/
100-helpful-web-tools-for-every-kind-of-learner/

Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardener created a list of the different "intelligences"
he believed different people have.

By understanding the different ways children think and respond,
teachers have used his theory to transform
the education systems of the U.S.

Look at the info at Wikipedia, pro and con.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_intelligences