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
... result of knowing that a message ( or messages ) exists in written material , and that one's pur- pose as a reader is to make sense of that message . A young child sitting in a parent's lap waiting to hear a ghost story grows excited in ...
... result of knowing that a message ( or messages ) exists in written material , and that one's pur- pose as a reader is to make sense of that message . A young child sitting in a parent's lap waiting to hear a ghost story grows excited in ...
Page 102
... " Word attack skills " result from predicting what the word might be , based on the meaning of the story - not because the reader understands what a prefix is . MYTH NUMBER THREE : Most , if not all , 102 RAISING READERS.
... " Word attack skills " result from predicting what the word might be , based on the meaning of the story - not because the reader understands what a prefix is . MYTH NUMBER THREE : Most , if not all , 102 RAISING READERS.
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... result ? For the past twenty years , as a result of instructional methods , children have learned to hate reading . Now , if we're not careful , they'll learn to hate literature . Q. Don't you think you're hard on basals ? A. No. Q.My ...
... result ? For the past twenty years , as a result of instructional methods , children have learned to hate reading . Now , if we're not careful , they'll learn to hate literature . Q. Don't you think you're hard on basals ? A. No. Q.My ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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