Includes index.

"This book opens student to a new way of learning an listening. Many of us, and many of our students, are unaccustomed to listening carefully. We tune out much of what goes on around us. We need to remember the power of listening and help our students do the same. It grip students in a listening vise, because they want to know what will happen next, they listen with fully focused attention. Since students can understand a much larger vocabulary than they can read themselves, when we read aloud we expose them to more sophisticated concepts and content than they could read independently. People of traditional cultures knew this, they passed on knowledge through their stories."

English text.