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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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SUARA HATI

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Gemericik hujan mengantarku dalam ruang gelap, berteman malam yang merajuk pulang Pergi meninggalkan rembulan yang tertutup mendung, melambaikan senyuman sebagai tanda perpisahan, dan aku masih berdiri melihat langkahnya semakin meredup Melihat bintang-bintang mulai mencibir, mencari kesalahan setiap insan ketika malam Terdengar isak tangis dibalik bayangan, hanya terlihat manusia bersandar pada sang malam Mencoba merayu malam untuk singgah lebih lama, bersama hujan bercengkrama tentang berdamai dengan kadaan Bukan untuk melupakan atau pura-pura menghilang, tapi mempersilahkannya duduk dan menuangkan secangkir racun damai dalam gelas kaca Bukan membungkam jeritan hati yang meronta, namun berbisik untuk mengatur detak jantung yang tak berirama Menggenggam erat tuk berjalan menapak jalan yang searah, dengan hati yang akan berdamai berjalan menuju masa depan by : Diyah Ayu Entika Q 3 januari 2020
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