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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... responded , " To help people sound out words . " Another responded , " To answer ques- tions . " A sixth - grader was asked the reason why an author had written a particular story . The child answered , “ To teach me new words . " In ...
... responded , " To help people sound out words . " Another responded , " To answer ques- tions . " A sixth - grader was asked the reason why an author had written a particular story . The child answered , “ To teach me new words . " In ...
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... respond to books in the same manner that they respond to oral language - by attending to the meaning . When a newborn infant is learning to understand and communicate , the child focuses only on meaning , on making sense . The infant ...
... respond to books in the same manner that they respond to oral language - by attending to the meaning . When a newborn infant is learning to understand and communicate , the child focuses only on meaning , on making sense . The infant ...
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... respond to the meanings . When children or adults- read , they do not respond to the individual words either . They respond to the meaning , the ideas , the sense of what the author is trying to say . Readers who pay attention to ...
... respond to the meanings . When children or adults- read , they do not respond to the individual words either . They respond to the meaning , the ideas , the sense of what the author is trying to say . Readers who pay attention to ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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