From the cover: Millions of children struggle with reading–and even more struggle to understand exactly what they’re reading. Read Well, Think Well will help you to teach your children to build the essential reading and comprehension skills they need to succeed in today’s demanding school system. Teacher trainer and literacy specialist Hal W. Lanse, Ph.D. provides the necessary knowledge, strategies and exercises that will turn your kids into first-rate readers and thinkers.
My review: I really liked this book. It contains tons of information in just 212 pages. Some of the chapters I really appreciated and will come in handy to me personally as a teacher are: Picking Appropriate Books, Memory Games, Boys and Reading: A Very Special Challenge, and Learning Disabilities; What to Know and What to Do. You can tell from this list that Dr. Lanse gives us useful information. The target audience is parents of middle and high schoolers. Although most of the information about older children than the 7 and 8 year old children that I teach, there IS information helpful to me and parents of younger children. The chapter on choosing books for boys has a helpful list for children of all school-age boys.
The chapter on meditation for a better brain lists the benefits of meditation as well as suggestions on how to do it. There is a long list of idiomatic expressions and what they mean. This would also be helpful for English learners, and there is a long list of popular proverbs and sayings.
This little book has a wealth of information within its covers. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in helping people become better readers. I know I will look back in it frequently.
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August 25th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Sounds helpful.