Transcripts For CSPAN2 Pamela Paul How To Raise A Reader 202

CSPAN2 Pamela Paul How To Raise A Reader July 13, 2024

And virtual. No doubt this is a feature perhaps in our helicopter in age but i think this attitude often fails to promote a sense of independence and kids. They entertain themselves without a device in hand so for reasons both selfish and selfless we know this was an important life skill for them. Our kids have trouble reading for pleasure is perhaps the activity that has suffered the most i its fallen by 30 since 2004. If there is a way to reverse the trend, i think it will have to start with our children and i can think of no one who can help us better than pamela the Childrens Book editor at the New York Times is also the author of the book review podcast. She talks about the research and book for a little bit and she and i are going to have a conversation and then we will open up to conversations from the audience with that i will turn over to pamela. Im telling it for a reason. First of all this is something that happened my last time i came down for the National Book festival we were on the training coulthe trainand got seated sepd they were scattered around we were kind of gathering my family and there was an older couple behind me and they said are those your children and usually associate with fear like oh no what have they done. I was reading the most interesting article in the New York Times about this very subject. She pointed to a piece but as you know when you have a book coming out and this is my piece for the oped section of the times called star for reading about not rewarding reading and that in fact is counterproductive. I said i actually wrote that piece so it is true my kids over ten, 13, 14 but the reason i told the story is because i wanted to relay with naomi alluded to which is people are really panicked about kids reading. I think the reason they are so afraid is not only the value of books but what it signifies both for themselves and for our culture and society. For themselves i think it is unquestioned at this point theres a lothereis a lot of re. You know its important to the Cognitive Development and academic success. We also have research that shows it improves executive function closely tied to the childs social and Emotional Development and my personal opinion is that it also just makes us better human beings so now people are very eager to have their kids become readers. This really wasnt the case i want to say in the 70s and 80s when i was coming of age at that point. If you think about the word book worm to have the basic coordinated skills on the Playing Field none of which i had tha but they want their kido be readers and theres all kinds of efforts on the local level to get kids to read, and yet as suggested i was asked by a group at the time to create a kind of side for the website we have done. There was a guide i had read several times even though i have yet to try to meditate and others to sort of live a better life and they came to me and said what about reading and book seemebooks and to me this was te obvious answer because it is something i always wanted to do and something that in my position as the parent of three kids i knew many wanted to do so because together and created a digital guide. It went online and went viral. Questions and comments came in and one of the most common is how do i turn this into a book. You would think that it should be a book and in fact that is ts would see theaboutand in fact tn davis to expand on all of the research that we have done and the advice we had and the recommendation so we had chartered into a book in short order when i was the Childrens Book editor and even ongoing in this job now i got a lot of questions from parents and a lot of what we wanted to do in the book is to address those questions and they can be very basic a lot of times they say he likes graphic novels and hates photographs should he do. So very specific questions but then there are the bigger questions like what do i do if my kid doesnt like to read or winch with mike to start reading. Or my childs recorded teacher says that he is two levels behind where he is steady and i dont know what to do about it and once they learn to read or they wont ask what if shes this reading is boring or only wants to read graphic novels, what if with the jeffersons insd she doesnt want to deal with anything else. So, what we first see in the questions i as there are a lot f myths out there around breathing and what makes a reader. Nothing is as important to raising a reader asked reading aloud to your child. This is the thing Everybody Knows they are supposed to do and in fact it is true you should read out loud to your child and there are a lot of ways in which. Another interesting statistic thats just as powerful as the number of books in your home. Its not immediately obvious but its not tied to income or education levels so it isnt just something people that have a lot of money and books in their home have an advantage that something anyone can do because as we all know they are incredibly easy to acquire online and you can also go to the library. When you have books in your home you are saying something about your family culture and they sure anyone here that has children knows one of the most annoying things to hear from a child is im bored. Its hard to be bored if theyre constantly bookthereare constanu and books not only in the library and the home but for each child if they dont have their own room a bookshelf in a shared room. Kids are inquisitive teachers did like to collect it on things. He should have a place for their own books that they manage on their own but they should also be throughout the house. They should be in the parlor, where the television is, where the computers are, in the kitchen where cooks books can be and in the bathroom where everyone doesnt love reading af they are not on there id have obviously. Former his better than the latter. Its important to keep books in the home. If you dont own the book and go to the library and take out 20 or 30 a week make sure you have a constant rotating in their and that is easy to remember his kids dont always know what they want to read. They are still developing their interest to take out books youre not sure aryouare not suo interest them, books that are more visual to always allow them the opportunity to turn into a book. A child learns to read independently better reader they will be for life. This is a method easy to believe because the appearance and in terms of milestones its natural for us to think they will do something earlier and be better. The analogy i like to think of his shoelaces if a child learns to tie their shoelaces at the age of four isnt going to make her better at the age of 25 spanish didnt learn until she was ten and the same goes for reading. It isnt related to future reading or cognitive ability. This is something many countries in europe know very well. Germany, scandinavian countries to even begin teaching reading until age seven or eight because the Research Supports it. Kids brains are not necessarily all able to do the kind of complicated decoding reading requires and moreover if you do start to teach at a very early age of three or four or five of the child iwhen the child is noy become frustrated, annoyed that they have negative feelings associated, they think this is just something im not good at, this isn isnt for me and it ls to a lot of years of anxiety and frustration that again dont correlate well with the child grows up and says this is something i want to do with my free time. So there is zer theres zero coi can say even through personal experience with my three kids to one reading the latest is the most ambitious. Heres another. Reading the same book over and over i can tell you the number of parents who first it was harry potter sort of my kid will not stop reading harry potter, she doesnt want to read anything else and now people think or know its even worse its a terrible graphic novel. I have some reassurance on that front. Theres actually a lot of good to reading over and over and there is a reason kids do it in to changes for everthe changes t its true for adults. With babies and toddlers they benefit they learn to recognize the words. If your child has memorized board books and this goes back to the family culture. When you go out and run errands and if you end up in the inevitable moments whether it is a Doctors Office rather than to do the easy thing and pull out the phone even if you are occupied if they memorized the book they can read it to themselves and then again, i have a feeling i am a reader from the very early age and older children benefit emotionally from rereading books having been a bookish child myself its good for kids to reread and if any adult knows when you read read a book as an adult you get Something Different from it each time so if you read at age 25 and then at 40 many of the things in the book you actually have experienced yourself and the passing of generations you might not have appreciated when you were 25 and you get more out of it if you think about a child developing at every moment with the read six months from now they are going to read it in a different way than i previously read it. They are going to get more out of it and see more things because they are not only getting to know it better but they are in a different place themselves so its good for kids to read and not worry if they are stuck. Prince to wor that work with thr children starting in preschool and teach them how to read and progress year by year so this again feels like an obvious course because we all hear about Parent Involvement and we know we are supposed to be supportive of our childs education at all if that is true. We should be doing those things, but school is where children learn to read. Home is where children learn to love to read into that i and thy different job for parents. If you think about trying to get your kids to do something to get the mechanics to want to do something thats different from getting a child who wants to do something to choose to do something to enjoy to do something. And so if your child is struggling for astruggling for n to read in school, the last thing he is going to want to do is have that experience replicated at home. If hes feeling bad about the fact that he is in this group and everyone else thinks they are in group n. And then you are forcing him to go through those levels at home its continuing what might be a negative experience. So while hes struggling to learn how to read at school, trust them to do that job. If you have doubts you can always consult your business specialist. You can make sure that its not pressure in your home and when n youre with youyou are with yout rather than have him read and struggled through those books. In the rulings they wrote first along with other readers one of the main characters that is a very traumatizing to process. If the kid wasnt there yet but if they do they read it aloud. It is something to aspire and again its about being the reward if your child wants to read harry potter wait until shes ready to read those books and then let her read them herself and again why would you give that away that is the motivator for her. Similarly there are a lot of theories that are really not great reading for parents and i dont know how many parents of Young Children there are in this room but if you are the parent of young girls you probably know rainbow series. This is a great series for little kids. Its terrible for adult. It is about 70,000 written by a non person named daisy meadows who doesnt exist. Exist. Anand with calls that are four, five, six or seven or eight of them. They are torture for appearing to read out loud. Kids love them if most parents want to try to kill themselves after the fourth book because they start with the same prolog. Im not saying anything bad. They serve a function and that is the kids love them and us what they want to read in order to read this book. They have their own beauty and function and if people dont like looking at the pictures will into adulthood, there would be no instagram to observe the visuals to understand the pictures and follow the sequence of events through the art of the visual storytelling. And if your child is working on a book at school that says, you know, the cat sat on the mat, chances are his or her brain go beyond that in terms of what they are interested in an storytellinstorytelling and if m not going to read any more to you, you are essentially punishing them for becoming an independent reader an and so may kids especially if theyve grown up in a home where reading aloud to your child is as a family ht and a pleasure having the rug pulled out from underneath them is in punitive. And moreover, if it denies them the opportunity to enjoy books that have a rich vocabulary that are more visually interesting than those that they are getting at school. In a similar way at the same time that they are struggling through those levels of early readers, you should continue to read aloud picture looks to them but if youre reading the hobbit out loud or little house on the prairie, whatever the series might be, to continue to do that because kids are like adults. They enjoy storytelling in all of its sort of various ways and just like many of us, while we might enjoy reading, we might also occasionally like to read a domestic killer or spy novel or books on audio at any given moment and kids are the same way. The best Childrens Books are classics. This is kind of a mess. There are books out there for kids when we become parents or grandparents we think i cant wait to share dr. Seuss or im a bunny or whatever the favorites are from childhood and there is nothing wrong with you that i think the reason people go back to that is a because they dont know the whole world thats out there. And we are living in a new golden age of Childrens Books and i dont just say that because i work at the review or as a book editor. I was so shocked how Childrens Books have become when i was an editor that i asked at the time i was not the editor of the book review, i asked for more pages and there were still more the tn deserved attention and i deserve to write. I started writing one Online Review a book just to be able to cover a small sliver of the greatness thats out there. The books have improved at every age and a free format. Even with Something Like board books which are those the dead kids chew on, they are now available in many formats like those that are deliberately created to go in the bathtub, theres all kind of board books and because of production along with the ways in which they tend to be created, there are things that they can do with cutouts and things they can do it used to b be good to average a pictue of two adopted into a format because it couldnt hold as many pages and now theyve improved the production to the point where they dont have to average to picturthe picture books so te better than ever. It is such a shame the book review has to be printed on newsprint because of glorious illustrations and quality of the story is truly phenomenal. I have to say also the diversity of the Childrens Book in terms of the kind o of experiences and the children that are depicted in the pages have improved enormously and reflect our world today. You cannot publish a picture book today with all these faces and thats good for not only children of color to see themselves reflected in the pages of the book they read but its also good for children who are white and do not necessarily encounter those experiences in their everyday lives because they will. Ththe exciting to one books i te most powerful paths to. Its a way that we can see through other peoples eyes. We can see their stories and learn about other experiences. That is something now all children can do. They are also much more global we have been coming from europe, latin america, now starting more and more from asia and china and that they are now producing really incredible work and all of that is coming over here so it is opening up. I was obsessed with biography and there was a wall in the library and the Childrens Library biography and ive become an alphabetical looking. I would go from Abigail Adams to clara barton to Dolly Madison and essentially it was all first ladies and nurses and that was great i liked reading about them but now there are childrens biographies of everyone that you can imagine from artists to entrepreneurs, writers, politicians, public service, people who have excelled in public service, sports heroes, across the spectrum and highly illustrated in a beautifully produced and they run from quite young lots of board books you might have seen some of these he wrote books from very Young Children during the through picture books for older kids, kids that are more visual that appreciates seeing rich photography and the photography thats produced in all these books again because of the printing costs and production in asia its gotten much better so we book of photographs that used to be unaffordable from those kids in the 70s or 80s now you have places Like National geographic producing incredible photography books for kids. And then there are lots of books in terms of middle grades that reflect a world in which kids are living now i and another can agree that it of this young adult books. It didnt exist. You basically went and would leapfrog to dc andrews. An older incarnations they reflect the experiences and desires and the way in which they work is truly remarkable because they know what theyre up against. Theyre up against tik tok, fort nite and instagram. If you havent read default in our stores which most people know about to Cancer Patients thatofall in love and basicallye books tap into the immediacy and intensity of our emotions in a way books to do when i was growing up and then in terms of fantasy these are plot driven because if they dont grab you by page two, theyve lost you to the internet or amazon or wherever else kids will go and spend their free time. Im going to run through some quick tips to give you some big ideas and specific things you can do. Reading should be fun. It shouldnt be a chore. If you want to stay up in bed quietly reading you can stay up at 7 30. To want to read and review reading in a positive light. Another big idea everyone learns to read. You were not there as their taskmaste

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