My First Blog Post

An email response from Jim Trelease, author of The Read Aloud Handbook

Dear Matt,

Thanks for the email and the photo. Terrific!

I am presently working on the 7th and my final edition of the Handbook, so your email was a vote of encouragement that I needed this morning.

I just finished the technology chapter (who'd have ever though such a chapter would have been in the book 30 years go when I started) and I'm attaching it here as a preview. The book probably won't be out until Sept. 2012, so this is well in advance and will probably have some revisions due to changing technology between now and then. But there's enough to bite into here with some sobering stats, including the stuff about where the silicon valley folks send their kids to school and the candid conversation between Gates and Jobs just before the latter died and their views of education software.

Keep me posted on your experiences during these early days as a reading principal. I'm very interested.

Best, Jim