Reviews for Guide To Life And Literature Of The Southwest

The average rating for Guide To Life And Literature Of The Southwest based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-19 00:00:00 G E Johansen I gratefully stumbled across this book while shelf reading at my library. This means reading the call numbers to find books in the wrong place. I like doing this, not only to clean up the library, but because I find excellent things! Unfortunately, this iconic Australian author has been embroiled in one of Trump's 'initiatives' - she was wrongfully detained on entry to The States (LA) where she was to perform a speaking event at a conference. I digress from talking about the book but this is very interesting and worth mentioning. I also heard a radio interview where her eloquence and grace shone through, as it always does. She even seems to maintain some humour. She's quite a lady. Here's the article I came across a couple of weeks ago whilst reading this book. Onto this book. This should be required reading for students and teachers of primary and early education; in fact, as I was reading it at a sporting event I excitedly showed my friend the book and it turns out it was a prescribed text during her studies 20 plus years ago. This is also very topical in my household as my little one starts school next year. I love to read, but alas I didn't start early enough with him. The three secrets are these: The magic of print, the magic of reading and the magic of general knowledge. What happens when these come together? Reading happens, that's what happens! It's like a guessing game, and the earlier you start, the easier reading will be (we are at this stage at home as the fun books we read, along with my animated and over the top expressions, he knows what will come next and is 'reading' in his own guessing way). Mem reflects on an incident where a six-year-old was reading well and her entire neighbourhood was saying to her 'You must have taught her. She's so far ahead.' 'Taught her?' said her mother. 'Of course I didn't teach her. I wouldn't know how, and I wouldn't have dared anyway, in case I did something wrong. I just read aloud'. Reading aloud is so important. Imagine how much easier kindy teachers would have it if all adults read to their children/grand children? Young readers would much more quickly further advance in their reading. Some kids no nothing of books before commencing school. I think this is tragic. Avoidable? Yes, but not if their parents did not have the luxury of being read to as a child. It does happen. I encourage you to embrace fun and silly stories to any youngster in your life. I'm having a lot of fun doing so!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-30 00:00:00 MIKE MEADOWS While I don't disagree about the importance of reading out loud to your children, I do take issue with her conclusions that reading out loud alone will teach your child to read. In some cases that is definitely true, but everyone's brain is wired differently and learns differently. I also strongly object to her flippancy with how she talks about dyslexia. We have read out loud to our daughter since she was an infant, and I still read out loud to her at age 7 because she loves books and stories and it builds her vocabulary and comprehension. However, her brain is wired in such a way that she is never going to just look at the words and "get it"! This isn't a bad book, but not the book you need to read if your child struggles with reading because of having a central nervous system that works in a less common fashion.