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 34
... examples is determined by prior familiarity with each unique language pattern . Different types of literature have specific " ingredients " in much the same way as recipes do . Mysteries , for example , have different ingredients than ...
... examples is determined by prior familiarity with each unique language pattern . Different types of literature have specific " ingredients " in much the same way as recipes do . Mysteries , for example , have different ingredients than ...
Page 69
... example of a nursery rhyme that allows for easy , relaxed pretending . It's fun to " bake a cake " together and then " put it in the oven for baby and me . ' Dramatization helps bring meaning to the story . Extend this idea and really ...
... example of a nursery rhyme that allows for easy , relaxed pretending . It's fun to " bake a cake " together and then " put it in the oven for baby and me . ' Dramatization helps bring meaning to the story . Extend this idea and really ...
Page 91
... example , is a simple book , yet a marvelous example of how even books for beginning readers can have con- tent . One Hunter tells the suspenseful , yet funny , story of a hunter stalking the jungle for wild animals . He passes blindly ...
... example , is a simple book , yet a marvelous example of how even books for beginning readers can have con- tent . One Hunter tells the suspenseful , yet funny , story of a hunter stalking the jungle for wild animals . He passes blindly ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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