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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... errors while reading . Those errors , however , do not distract the reader . They don't interfere with the meaning of the story . The errors are usually sensible ones ; the reader may substitute a more familiar or meaningful word ...
... errors while reading . Those errors , however , do not distract the reader . They don't interfere with the meaning of the story . The errors are usually sensible ones ; the reader may substitute a more familiar or meaningful word ...
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Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. ignores the printed errors , as many of you may also have done . Here is the passage again with the errors marked : A woman was building a boat in her basement [ no period ] when [ no ...
Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. ignores the printed errors , as many of you may also have done . Here is the passage again with the errors marked : A woman was building a boat in her basement [ no period ] when [ no ...
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... error they make . Besides , errors that children make are often " sensible " errors . That is , they make sense within the context of the story and don't change the meaning of the story at all . And nagging children about every error ...
... error they make . Besides , errors that children make are often " sensible " errors . That is , they make sense within the context of the story and don't change the meaning of the story at all . And nagging children about every error ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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