Ten wildly happy minutes reading aloud

Have been digging further into the great books I borrowed from the display at the SMB library.

I have been totally immersed in a fantastic book:
Delivering the best start: a guide to early years libraries by Carolynn Rankin & Avril Brock.

Information literacy has to start at the beginning with literacy and communication skills.
Children absorb like a sponge from experiencing stories, pictures & rhymes.
Rankin & Brock (2009) want librarians to reach the family audience so as to encourage literacy skills and help build sustainable communities.

In a major study of reading it concluded that reading for pleasure is more important to a child's educational achievement than its family's wealth or social class (Kirsch,2002)

I love taking storytime sessions and am inspired to start up a rhyme time and try some new ideas out on the pre-schoolers!

I feel enthused everytime I read Mem Fox's Ten Commandments for reading aloud techniques.
Here are just a few:

• Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud
• Read at least 3 stories every day
• Read aloud with animation - Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot

So I read Mog and the Baby, our next book in the Premiers Reading Challenge on the couch tonight to the boys with great animation, laughter and enthusiasm!

They were all very happy boys.

Kirsch, I. (2002) Reading for Change: performance and engagement across countries. Results from PISA 2000 (Programmes for International Student Assessment - how well young adults are doing at end of compulsory schooling), OECD

Rankin, C. & Brock, A. (2009) Delivering the best start: a guide to early years libraries. London: Facet