Paul Kropp

Raising a Reader; Make Your Child a Reader for Life

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A good read on raising a reader
Readable and reassuring
Very informative in helping parents over "rough" times

Raising a Reader; Make Your Child a Reader for Life
Paul Kropp
Manufacturer: Broadway
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 1995-12-29

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The news about children's reading is not good. Only 45% of fourth graders read for pleasure and by twelfth grade, only 24% find joy in reading. But Paul Kropp, a teacher for 20 years and author of young adult novels, has better news: the road to reading can be paved by parents because "reading is not a skill, it is an attitude." How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life is a wonderfully practical primer about how families can discover the joy of reading together.

Kropp grounds his suggestions in the intriguing premise that reading is a social activity. He offers a crash course in "two thousand years of reading out loud" noting that for most of recorded history, reading silently was unusual and reading aloud was the norm. For example, medieval kings and queens had manuscripts read to them, St. Augustine read to the Benedictine monks, and Englishmen gathered in pubs for a reading of the latest installment of a Charles Dickens novel. Kropp urges parents to begin reading aloud to their babes in arms and to never stop reading together.

Kropp packs every page with energy, fresh ideas, must-read book lists and nongimmicky "reading solutions." He offers parents a "three R" model (read with your child every day, reach into your pocket to buy books, rule the media). Several chapters are devoted to the developmental ages and stages of reading--beginning with floating vinyl books in a baby's bath and ending with ideas for engaging what Kropp calls "aliterate" teens who can read, but don't. Other sections explore specific reading challenges including bored readers, reluctant readers, gifted readers, reading slumps, and "dysteachia" (bad teachers).

Kropp believes that reading should be a birthright for all of our children. The beauty of this book is that every chapter helps parents to deliver on this promise. Just imagine what might happen if a copy of How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life accompanied every newborn home from the hospital. --Barbara Mackoff

Book Description

An important addition to the library of any parent who wants to give a child the gift of learning--and loving--to read.  Now updated with important advice about utilizing the Internet

You will learn:
- how and why you are integral to your child's reading progress
- how to read aloud with your child from birth through the teenage years
- how to use games and storytelling to make reading fun
- how to work with your child's teachers--sand what to do if the school        won't cooperate
- how to overcome reading slumps and book boredom
- how to nurture your gifted reader
- how to avoid gimmicks that will sidetrack you and your child
- how to find the best--and the safest--places on the Web for reading support and ideas

How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life includes lists of over three hundred "must-have" books you and your child can enjoy.  Broken down into different categories--easy books for reluctant readers, surefire books for bored readers, scary books, classic books, fantasy books, even books for adolescent readers who won't read anything!-- How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life makes it easy for you to find the titles that will spark your child's imagination and make your child a reader for life.

Customer Reviews:

A good read on raising a reader.......2005-08-19

This book had great practical advice for each stage in your child's reading life. Particularly helpful were the suggestions on overcoming difficult stages when children might tend to become apathetic towards reading. I also appreciated the emphasis on the total experience of reading, rather than the simple ability to identify words on a page. In addition I found it reassuring to hear that my husband's and my own enjoyment of reading will go a long way towards influencing our kid's desire to read.

Readable and reassuring.......2000-08-15

Kropp has real-life advice for parents who believe, as he does, that reading is one of life's great joys. He emphasizes the importance of building a literate household--where fiction, nonfiction, magazines, and newspapers abound--and everyone reads. While you can't pick up a mainstream parenting magazine without seeing an article on the importance of reading to your baby, Kropp deals with keeping your child out of reading slumps throughout school and with or without the support of an 'A' school and teacher to lead the way.

It's a quick read (ironically) and a great resource for parents.

Very informative in helping parents over "rough" times.......1998-05-19

I liked and used many of the author's ideas on how to raise a child who loves to read. In particular, the suggestion to keep reading to a child who does not want to read on his own was a very good idea. Definitely a worthwhile book to add to the library.

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I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Child: Encourage Excellence, Set Limits, and Lighten Up

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My affirmation made easy!
Interresting and thought provoking

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Book Description

Trustworthy advice for parents who want to rear bright, polite children-and a contrarian look at hot-button parenting issues, from quality time to good manners.

With myriad parenting books available today, it's no wonder parents are confused by the range of opinions and quick fixes these books offer. I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Child leaves theories behind and gives parents of school-age children practical approaches for handling fundamental child-rearing issues. Out of a welter of parenting fads and on-going cultural upheavals, Paul Kropp answers parents' number-one question, "What is the right way to rear our children to become responsible, well-adjusted adults?"

Kropp responds with irrefutable evidence that favors time-honored essentials for parenting success, from providing unconditional love to setting consistent rules-qualities we know are easily overlooked in favor of feel-good fads. Next he tackles specific, topical problems that concern parents most, offering advice that often runs counter to fashion but that parents will cheer. Topics include praise and its dangers; quality time, and why it never works; privacy, and why too much of it is a bad thing; allowance, and the true purpose of giving a child his own money; and much more.

This is a bracing, often humorous, book that debunks easy, TV-style parenting and provides down-to-earth problem-solving that parents can really use, with lots of real-life examples.

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My affirmation made easy!.......2001-12-17

This book is so wonderful and has really helped me. I often forget to remember that I am the parent and my child is the child. How often do we find ourselves engaging is "childish" behavior with our children!? I didn't really read this book all that closely, but I find it really helpful to just leave it out on the coffee table as a silent, albiet wordy, reminder: I am the parent and you (well, my child) is the child.

Interresting and thought provoking.......2001-10-03

Many controversial modern parenting issues explored in an honest and sometimes humerous way. The many chapters are like a collection of short articles on various topics of concern to parents. I agreed with some things, disagreed with others but overall found it a worthwhile read.

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its not about a guy that gets caught selling dope.......
Dope Deal
Keep out of reach of children

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its not about a guy that gets caught selling dope..............2004-03-24

this book is really about a guy who get busted for weed and then trys to help is brother get off dope and away from a bad gan calle dthe coppers.

Dope Deal.......2002-04-04

This book is about a man selling dope and got caught.
He was sleeping one day and police broke in his house.
He got raided. He went to jail but his dad bailed him out.
I like this book because this book is intresting.

Keep out of reach of children.......1999-06-26

This is a book that was written, in my opinion, to scare the living daylights out of kids to keep them from doing drugs. I am however, against the book being located in a 3rd through 5th grade school library. This book is absurb, and very risque for the era of books that it is up against now. I would strongly recommend that all people strongly reconsider the choice to purchase and read this book. It should be banned from libraries, not Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. This is absolutely outrageous and totally unappropriate for a book of its kind to be put into the hands of an 9 or 10 year to read. STOP THE PRINTING OF THIS BOOK!!!

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It was the best book I had read.

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It was the best book I had read........1999-06-29

This book was about kids that are in gangs.They only like to hang around.Another gang wanted to scare them away. So they jumped one of the guys from the other gang.This book taught me not to be in gangs because you could really get hurt.This book is good for kids that think that gangs are good.

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The Countess and Me
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When he first meets Countess von Loewen, Jordan finds himself obliging her by burying a quartz skull she claims is cursed. She_s not your typical neighbor. But soon she employs him as her gardener, and Jordan eventually grows to care about the lonely old lady. Besides, the countess believes in him as nobody ever has; she knows Jordan can become whatever he chooses. Jordan has enough to deal with in this new town. At school, only the tough, cool kids show any interest; first they tease him, then exploit him. And when they decide to give Jordan a taste of life on the inside with pool parties, girls who seem interested, a great car to cruise around in, Jordan is hooked. He has to be part of this group. So when Jordan agrees to steal the quartz skull he_s been blabbing about, it seems like a pretty easy test of his loyalty. After all, the countess doesn_t want it anymore, does she? Before he knows it, however, Jordan finds himself in too deep. His continual bragging about the countess and her house full of treasures eventually gets Jordan, and his eccentric neighbor, into far more trouble than he could imagine. And as he starts to wonder about the so-called curse of the quartz skull, Jordan knows he has to face another test. Will he have the courage, cursed or not, to become the man that Countess von Loewen believes him to be or the loser everyone else sees? Bestselling author Paul Kropp tells an absorbing story that will hook older readers from the first page. In his character Jordan, the popular author of books for teens has found a young Everyman with whom readers can readily identify. And in the countess, Kropp has created a loveable loony no one will soon forget.

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