朗读十诫

Ten read-aloud commandments

1. 每一天花上至少十分钟高高兴兴放声朗读。孩子一出生就开始！

1. Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud. From birth!

2. 每天至少读三个故事：也可以是同一个故事读三遍。孩子需要听到一千个故事才能开始学习阅读。或者是同一个故事讲上一千遍！

2. Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand stories before they can begin to learn to read. Or the same story a thousand times!

3. 活灵活现地大声读。好好听听你自己的声音，不要钝钝的、扁扁的、闷闷的。放轻松，响亮些，开心玩，多多笑。

3. Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and don’t be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot.

4. 快活而享受地读：对自己来说是真心的享受，对听者来说是无上的快活。

4. Read with joy and enjoyment: real enjoyment for yourself and great joy for the listeners.

5. 读那些招孩子爱的故事，一遍又一遍，接着再一遍，每一本书用同一个「调调」来读：比如，在每一页上，每一次，都采用同一种语调、音量和语速。

5. Read the stories that your child loves, over and over, and over again, and always read in the same ‘tune’ for each book: i.e. with the same intonations and volume and speed, on each page, each time.

6. 持续地和孩子说话，和他们聊图画或任何跟书有关的东西，让孩子听到大量的语言；或者唱任何你记得住的老歌；或者以富于弹性的方式说出儿歌；或者一起吵吵闹闹玩起拍手游戏。

6. Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way; or be noisy together doing clapping games.

7. 在给小小孩的书里找出韵律、节奏或重复，确认这些书的内容确实够短。

7. Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books for young children, and make sure the books are really short.

8. 用你和孩子在书页上看到的东西做游戏，比如让小朋友来完成押韵，从中找出孩子和你的名字里的首字母，记住它从来都不是一项任务，而一直是一场精彩的游戏。

8. Play games with the things that you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering that it’s never work, it’s always a fabulous game

9. 绝对甭想教阅读，切勿太紧张书。

9. Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books.

10. 你每天大声读书给孩子听，只因为你就是爱和孩子在一起，而不是因为这是一件正确的事。

10. Please read aloud every day because you just adore being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to do.