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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... even teachers ! —and will make any adult want to try reading aloud to the young people in their lives . Thanks , Steve ! Tomie dePaola New Hampshire Acknowledgments While I would like to believe that brilliant insight.
... even teachers ! —and will make any adult want to try reading aloud to the young people in their lives . Thanks , Steve ! Tomie dePaola New Hampshire Acknowledgments While I would like to believe that brilliant insight.
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... Lives : This is the house where Jack lives . This is the dog that lives in the house where Jack lives . This is the boy that walked the dog that lives in the house where Jack lives . This is the pail that fell on the boy ... Audrey and ...
... Lives : This is the house where Jack lives . This is the dog that lives in the house where Jack lives . This is the boy that walked the dog that lives in the house where Jack lives . This is the pail that fell on the boy ... Audrey and ...
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... lives because it moves us . Children do precisely the same thing . Basal publishers cannot accommodate the infinite number of reasons that children read , nor can they assume to cover their many differing interests . This is one reason ...
... lives because it moves us . Children do precisely the same thing . Basal publishers cannot accommodate the infinite number of reasons that children read , nor can they assume to cover their many differing interests . This is one reason ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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