Read Aloud WV

Praise for Read Aloud

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Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

-- Emilie Buchwald, Children's author

 

Reading aloud is one of the absolute nicest activities for adults and children to share. It creates warm bonds, opens a child's mind to new ideas, forms topics of discussion, thus keeping lines of communication open, and creates a positive role model for the child to become a lifetime reader.

-- Robert Topp, proprietor

Hermitage Bookshop, Denver

"We want to thank Read Aloud for allowing us to work with you. If it were not for Read Aloud and its hard work, we could not advance literacy this way. Literacy remains the number one issue for economic development in our state. This is a good West Virginia program. It is not flashy; it's not whiz-bang stuff. This is about ordinary folks from all walks of life working to advance literacy. We all know how powerful reading alout to kids is. Verizon wants to facilitate getting readers into classrooms and increase students' personal enjoyment of reading. With Read Aloud, it is almost a slam-dunk."

-- Joe Long

Corporate Communications Director

Verizon

"I like Read Aloud because it is a way to hear stories that you never heard before."

-- Phillip, 5th grade, Kanawha County

 

"It does not make a difference whether a child is sitting on a grandparent's lap listening to a picture book story or if a teacher takes the time to sit in a Large Wooden Chair surrounded by wide-eyed students in order to read aloud. The love of reading literature often begins with the love of listening to literature."

-- Meryl Ironson

from "The Immeasurable Value of Read Aloud"

 

"How can one generation demonstrate the joy of reading to another? By modeling that pleasure to our youth as Read Aloud volunteers do every week in our classrooms. Thank you, Read Aloud for helping us to instill the value and sheer delight of reading."

-- Steve Knighton, Principal

Piedmont Elementary School, Kanawha County