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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... expect to see something . We glance at only a part of the object but recognize it nonetheless . Our expec- tation , based on the context , is a sensible one . The same is true for all our perceptions . ( Conversation , for example ...
... expect to see something . We glance at only a part of the object but recognize it nonetheless . Our expec- tation , based on the context , is a sensible one . The same is true for all our perceptions . ( Conversation , for example ...
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... expect a four- or five - year - old to maintain an impeccably tidy environment , and you do so by prohibiting relatively free access to materials , you will have to accept the consequences of those actions . That may mean a child for ...
... expect a four- or five - year - old to maintain an impeccably tidy environment , and you do so by prohibiting relatively free access to materials , you will have to accept the consequences of those actions . That may mean a child for ...
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... expecting the school to be similarly well - informed . You expect classroom reading activities to reflect the reading theory espoused in this book . You expect to see a class- room with a large selection of good children's books . You ...
... expecting the school to be similarly well - informed . You expect classroom reading activities to reflect the reading theory espoused in this book . You expect to see a class- room with a large selection of good children's books . You ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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