tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970910004785531870.post8127616058974861859..comments2023-05-31T09:49:10.132-06:00Comments on Kid's True Fiction: Reluctant ReadersJanet Muirhead Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05180825440903874294noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970910004785531870.post-11956865895066907702007-09-17T06:53:00.000-06:002007-09-17T06:53:00.000-06:00Hi Clair, Thanks for your comment. I couldn't agre...Hi Clair, Thanks for your comment. I couldn't agree more. Parents, teachers, grandparents, even older siblings should read to the children in their lives as much as possible. I have a grandniece who has been reading to her unborn child for sometime now. I feel confident that the reading will continue after he or she is born next month. But I'm afraid this young mother is an exception these days. Janet Muirhead Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180825440903874294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970910004785531870.post-51457019464969016372007-09-14T14:49:00.000-06:002007-09-14T14:49:00.000-06:00I would say that if people want kids to read, they...I would say that if people want kids to read, they need to read to them. I am a teacher and when I read to my students most of the time they are glad for it. And if a parent keeps reading the kids even when they can read for themselves, it will continue. My friend read to her kids every night til they were teenagers. Of course she was reading chapter books at that point.Clairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07769348919608645446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970910004785531870.post-38762469569986388572007-09-14T07:21:00.000-06:002007-09-14T07:21:00.000-06:00It's hard for me to relate to reluctant readers be...It's hard for me to relate to reluctant readers because as a country child books were my main friends. I was just on the cusp of television, but our time with the box was strictly limited. <BR/><BR/>My great nieces who live next to my 91-year-old father watch little TV and read, read, read...winning most of the library reading prizes over the summer. <BR/><BR/>To me it's about a culture of Janet Grace Riehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03921731725804450430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970910004785531870.post-22345184397516421172007-09-14T05:48:00.000-06:002007-09-14T05:48:00.000-06:00Hi Max, Thanks for your comments. I'm happy to hea...Hi Max, <BR/>Thanks for your comments. I'm happy to hear your formula; besides developing a subject of interest, your use of dialog, humor, short sentences, and a lot of white space on a page work together to turn a reading assignment into reading pleasure. As I publish more books, I will be do my best to ensure that all of those elements are incorporated. My books have lots of dialog, but Janet Muirhead Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180825440903874294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970910004785531870.post-40378721679555889992007-09-13T08:52:00.000-06:002007-09-13T08:52:00.000-06:00Hello again, Janet.I'll be speaking to 40 - 50 stu...Hello again, Janet.<BR/><BR/>I'll be speaking to 40 - 50 students tomorrow, and again to about 30 on Monday. I do occasionally encounter reluctant girl readers, but the predominance is boys.<BR/><BR/>I think my books work for boys and girls who don't like to read, because I hated it so much as a child. So I set out to write the kinds of books I WOULD have liked as a child.<BR/><BR/>Readers find maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16602676696397151703noreply@blogger.com