Helping Kids to Enjoy Reading, Book Opinions

Helping Children Find Enjoyment in Reading (3:24) “Do you have a child who resists reading? The situation is pretty common – in fact, often normal. Rachel talks to educator and author, Mary Bigler, about things you can do to get reluctant young readers interested. Bigler suggests using joke and riddle books, tongue twisters, poetry, or short books. Read what the child wants and loves, she says – no matter how many times they want it read to them. Once a pre-school teacher and now, a professor, Mary Bigler has spent her life promoting literacy and celebrating the joys of teaching.  She is an award-winning professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University and, author of “Lessons Learned.”   Two Contrasting Views on One Book (17:43) Have you ever had the experience where you’ve read a book and loved it, but, your friend reads it and hates it? Rachel talks to Whitney Troxel and Aylea Stephens, editors of the "Children’s Book and Media Review” at the BYU Library share their contrasting views of “Ella Enchanted” by Gail Carson Levine. Favorite Stories (25:05) We finish the show with Steven Kapp Perry, composer and announcer on Classical 89 radio in Provo, Utah. I asked him about books that made an impact on him in childhood.”