Topic: Reading Aloud.

10-second review: Why should we read aloud to children even after they have learned to read on their own? “And even though children read well on their own, they never outgrow the pleasure of listening to good literature. Fifteen or twenty minutes should be regularly set aside for this.”

Source: RE Sabaroff. Elementary English. 399. Elementary English preceded Language Arts as the elementary school journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Comment: I don’t know if you can afford fifteen or twenty minutes in a 45-minute period, but 10 minutes to provide a sample of an interesting book, should increase students’ interest in reading the book on their own. Of course this requires that you have already read the book and have picked out selected passages that will be of interest to the students. RayS.