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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... sentence . Oral and written language share a similar grammatical structure , a structure that allows us to predict while reading . If I am reading the sentence " The cat was on the " I do not need to look at the next word to know it ...
... sentence . Oral and written language share a similar grammatical structure , a structure that allows us to predict while reading . If I am reading the sentence " The cat was on the " I do not need to look at the next word to know it ...
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... sentence you've written on the page to help ? Teacher : That's why it's there . If it helps , they can place the word cards underneath the sentence . A more sophisti- cated activity would be without the use of the sentence . Parent 4 ...
... sentence you've written on the page to help ? Teacher : That's why it's there . If it helps , they can place the word cards underneath the sentence . A more sophisti- cated activity would be without the use of the sentence . Parent 4 ...
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... sentence sensibly . That's important to establish some meaning . Your child will also have fun making up silly sentences . Parent 1 : We've done this since my little Davey was seven months old , and he's doing quite well . He now ...
... sentence sensibly . That's important to establish some meaning . Your child will also have fun making up silly sentences . Parent 1 : We've done this since my little Davey was seven months old , and he's doing quite well . He now ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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