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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Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. Children learn by making errors in environments— school and home - that not only accept mistakes but positively encourage them . Think back to when your child learned to speak . Your child ...
Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. Children learn by making errors in environments— school and home - that not only accept mistakes but positively encourage them . Think back to when your child learned to speak . Your child ...
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... Children learn during the act of speaking , and they acquire more sophisticated oral language skills when they feel that they are necessary . But when the form of language is print , many parents worry tremendously about children learning ...
... Children learn during the act of speaking , and they acquire more sophisticated oral language skills when they feel that they are necessary . But when the form of language is print , many parents worry tremendously about children learning ...
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Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. Clearly , there are some children who enjoy work- books . Children who find them easy enjoy them because they are good at them . But there is very little thinking or learning involved ...
Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. Clearly , there are some children who enjoy work- books . Children who find them easy enjoy them because they are good at them . But there is very little thinking or learning involved ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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