The Secret Life of Children. Learning How To Read Nourishes A Child's Sense of Self in Ways We Cannot Begin To Imagine.

Birkerts, Sven

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ERIC Number: EJ599625

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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The Secret Life of Children. Learning How To Read Nourishes A Child's Sense of Self in Ways We Cannot Begin To Imagine.

Birkerts, Sven

School Library Journal, v45 n9 p140-43 Sep 1999

Suggests that the real power of the childhood reading encounter is less in the specific elements of story or character and more in what is accomplished by the private interchange between child and book. Discusses the differences between reading and being read to and between reading and television watching. (AEF)

Descriptors: Books, Childhood Needs, Childrens Literature, Reader Text Relationship, Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Reading Interests, Reading Processes, Television Viewing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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