num_pages: 256
description: What reading experiences have entertained you provoked you taught you inspired you helped you to see your own life more clearly or connected you with others? As teachers librarians school administrators and caregivers who love reading we know what it feels like to fall into a book and let the world fall away. We have joyous reading memories and we know how reading can sustain and inspire us. Now When talking with children about their reading lives at school are you likely to hear about this transformative reading joy? Or are you more likely to hear about reading logs book reports and standardized tests? For too many young readers reading is joyless. It is something that is required of them but not something that they choose to do. Here's the It is possible to teach children how to read well without killing their love for reading in the process.The Joy of Reading is a guide for teachers librarians administrators and families to create the conditions for joyful reading. Donalyn Miller and Teri Lesesne draw from their decades of work with students teachers and librarians providing practices that nurture joy while identifying factors that destroy joy all with a clear understanding of the realities of today's classrooms and libraries. There's more to life than school and work. There's more to reading than school-based value systems for it. We can aim higher than short-sighted measurements and instead become reading encouragers supporters and role models for lifelong joyful reading.
language: English
title: The Joy of Reading
publisher: Heinemann