How long does it take to read The Read-aloud Handbook?
Jim Trelease, William S. Pollack, Todd Shuster
The Read-aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease, William S. Pollack, Todd Shuster takes about 6 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 364 pages, about 100,100 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The classic handbook on reading aloud to children - revised and updatedFor more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, The Read-Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategies—and the reasoning behind them—for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.
Subjects: Education, Nonfiction, Oral reading, Reading, Reference, Kind
