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. TWO Why Do We Read ? We Read for Meaning Forget the hows of learning to read for the moment . Assume reading is as involuntary as breathing , that no one has to learn how to do it . What ...
Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. TWO Why Do We Read ? We Read for Meaning Forget the hows of learning to read for the moment . Assume reading is as involuntary as breathing , that no one has to learn how to do it . What ...
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... Reading instruction is systematic and sequential . Learning to read does not occur in tidy , orderly steps . Neither does learning to speak - a much more complex process . A child does not master language by first learning one word and ...
... Reading instruction is systematic and sequential . Learning to read does not occur in tidy , orderly steps . Neither does learning to speak - a much more complex process . A child does not master language by first learning one word and ...
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... learning to read can be accomplished through the basal reader . All basals contain a finite number of stories , songs , or poems . It is a preposterous assumption that all , or even some , of these stories would gain the attention and ...
... learning to read can be accomplished through the basal reader . All basals contain a finite number of stories , songs , or poems . It is a preposterous assumption that all , or even some , of these stories would gain the attention and ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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