Why Read Aloud?

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-JIM TRELEASE- One day back in the 1980s I visited the kindergarten room I had attended years earlier as a child at Connecticut Farms Elementary School, in Union, New Jersey. Gazing up at me were the faces of about fifteen children, each of them seated expectantly on their story rug. “How many of you want to learn to read this year?” I asked. Without a second’s hesitation, every hand shot into the air, many accompanied by boasts like “I already know how!” Their excitement matched what every kindergarten teacher has told me: Every child begins school wanting to learn to read. In other words, we’ve got 100 percent enthusiasm and desire when they start school—the first chapter in their life. In subsequent years, when the National Reading Report Card surveyed students, they found very different attitudes and behavior as the students aged: Among fourth-graders, only 54 percent read something for pleasure every day. Among eighth-graders, only 30 percent read for pleasure daily.   By t...

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Kalimat tak bermakna kian jelas
Jelas terlihat merona pun juga tertutup awan
Awan yang bergejolak terombang ambing nyata
Berlarilah dan jangan membeku keras

Awan hanya menghasut,
Dengan wujud yang berbeda dari mereka
Iblis yang menjelma seolah bagian dari duniawi
Janganlah terhanyut,
Bukalah mata dan lihat keindahan dibalik tipuan mata ini

Renungkan sejenak kehidupan barumu
Baru, dan hanya sekali untukmu
Karena selanjutnya belum tentu kita
Berwujud indah seperti sedia kala

Raungan iblis hanya racun kehidupan,
Telanlah seperti ramuan penyembuh kesakitan,
Janjinya sangat palsu untuk sebuah kehidupan,
Tak perlu percaya oleh keterusterangan manusia
Karena jelmaan iblis yang tak akan berhenti mengusik telinga kita
Mencoba mencari celah untuk kita menjauh dari mimpi-mimpi indah kita

Bangunlah, untuk dunia baru
Bangunlah untuk jiwa yang telah kembali dan kembali baru
Menarilah Bersama jiwa yang terus terang hanyut
Mengatakan dia telah hancur dan bangkit untukmu

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