Raising Readers: Helping Your Child to LiteracyThis bestselling book helps teachers answer all the questions that parents ask about their children’s reading. It helps make parents partners, not adversaries, in the learning process by explaining how current ways to teach reading correspond to the natural ways in which children acquire language. Includes sections on how to choose good books for children, commonly asked questions, and more. |
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Page 25
... chapter titles , and illustrations ( espe- cially on the book cover ) also allow children to make predictions . Before beginning a book , you can talk with your child about the title , what he or she thinks will happen in the book ...
... chapter titles , and illustrations ( espe- cially on the book cover ) also allow children to make predictions . Before beginning a book , you can talk with your child about the title , what he or she thinks will happen in the book ...
Page 39
... chapter first . This is a testimony to parental concern over the phonics issue . If you are one of those parents , I suggest turning back to the beginning and reading the previous chapters . They are important in understanding the place ...
... chapter first . This is a testimony to parental concern over the phonics issue . If you are one of those parents , I suggest turning back to the beginning and reading the previous chapters . They are important in understanding the place ...
Page 87
... chapter entitled " Choosing a Good Mate " or " How to Choose a Good Religion . " The operationally explosive word here is " good , " and its use is judgmental and subjective . I do not write this chapter from a literary critic's ...
... chapter entitled " Choosing a Good Mate " or " How to Choose a Good Religion . " The operationally explosive word here is " good , " and its use is judgmental and subjective . I do not write this chapter from a literary critic's ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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