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 11
... knowledge , have fun , become ecstatic , feel repulsed , be frightened , or even laugh aloud . But these are all a result of knowing that a message ( or messages ) exists in written material , and that one's pur- pose as a reader is to ...
... knowledge , have fun , become ecstatic , feel repulsed , be frightened , or even laugh aloud . But these are all a result of knowing that a message ( or messages ) exists in written material , and that one's pur- pose as a reader is to ...
Page 54
... knowledge of content and vocabulary . Nina carefully studied the illustrations first and then read the text , actively predicting , then confirming her predictions based on the meaning that had developed from her reading . Nina's ...
... knowledge of content and vocabulary . Nina carefully studied the illustrations first and then read the text , actively predicting , then confirming her predictions based on the meaning that had developed from her reading . Nina's ...
Page 110
... knowledge of all the reading skills their child does or does not possess , by criticizing teachers when they allow children to choose books that are interesting and relevant to them . The list can go on and on . A parent can be ...
... knowledge of all the reading skills their child does or does not possess , by criticizing teachers when they allow children to choose books that are interesting and relevant to them . The list can go on and on . A parent can be ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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