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The enchanted hour : the miraculous power of reading aloud in the age of distraction  Cover Image Book Book

The enchanted hour : the miraculous power of reading aloud in the age of distraction

Summary: Examines how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.

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  • ISBN: 0062562819
  • ISBN: 9780062562814
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    xix, 278 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-250) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: What reading to children does to their brains -- Where it all began : once upon a time in the ancient world -- Reading together strengthens the bonds of love -- Turbocharging child development with picture books -- The rich rewards of a vast vocabulary -- The power of paying attention - and flying free -- Reading aloud furnishes the mind -- From the nursery to the nursing home : why reading aloud never gets old -- There is no present like time.
Subject: Oral reading
Oral reading Social aspects
Oral reading Psychological aspects
Children Books and reading
Reading Parent participation

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library LB 1573.5 .G87 2019 30775305543127 General Collection Available -

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