Summary of home of the brave by katherine applegate

Some kids with dyslexia use audiobooks very successfully, and that can be a key to success. I love them, but it doesn’t come as naturally to me as, say, parsing a sentence. It’s interesting because for me I have a hard time knowing how to read a graphic novel. She’s very artistic anyway, so for her it was a great way for her to see a story unfold. Just the other day she was asking me, “Has she written anything else? Why hasn’t she written anything else?” For her it was the perfect melding of art. It was just really a breakthrough moment. She wrote Smile, and my daughter read Smile, and everything changed. If I ever meet her, I’m going to kiss her on the lips.

Closeįor my daughter with dyslexia, the key was graphic novels. They can read a fat book, and a book with sophisticated content, but they can get through it. It’s not as easy as it looks.” And they go, “Wow, that’s the first chapter.” They’re hooked because it means they can read what a lot of kids call them “fat books”. And when I show that to kids who are reluctant readers, and they see that first page, which is basically two or three lines: “Hello. The One and Only Ivan, for example, has a lot of white space. But I was quite old, and even into college I was a slow reader. I know that Kate DiCamillo happens to like it, too, but it was not written for her, it was written for me. And I tell them that in my opinion it was written just for me. And, of course, that’s always met with lots of “oohs” and “ahhs”. And when you find it, your life will change.”Īnd for me that book was Charlotte’s Web. And for me, there was a book, and I always tell them, “There’s a book out there that’s like your best friend.

But it my case I just didn’t get the point. And with good teachers and good help you can overcome it. And I always point out to kids that’s a whole different thing. Sometimes I get boos, which is always encouraging.

And the secret is: I hated to read.” And I often get applause. Usually when I talk to teachers I get about a 50% compliance rate when I ask them to cover their ears.

They were quite, for the most part helped in that. Well when I talk to kids, I always tell them, in fact I opened my presentation today saying, “I have a secret.” I had all the adults cover their ears.

Summary of home of the brave by katherine applegate