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 29
... speak in the wrong direction , but we can surely read in the wrong direction . Children must understand the sound of ... speaking extemporaneously , even without the " uhs " and " ers . " Even informal correspondence , which sounds ...
... speak in the wrong direction , but we can surely read in the wrong direction . Children must understand the sound of ... speaking extemporaneously , even without the " uhs " and " ers . " Even informal correspondence , which sounds ...
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... speak all of these words he can move on to ' level 8 ' of learning to speak . ” Neither did you sequentially learn all of the words you are reading now . I doubt you can remember the age or grade when you learned to read the word ...
... speak all of these words he can move on to ' level 8 ' of learning to speak . ” Neither did you sequentially learn all of the words you are reading now . I doubt you can remember the age or grade when you learned to read the word ...
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... speaking instead of at the end . Parents don't worry about the ages at which their child uses interrogatory and exclamatory ... speak . MYTH NUMBER TWO : Children must be taught a defined series of skills , including phonics , structural ...
... speaking instead of at the end . Parents don't worry about the ages at which their child uses interrogatory and exclamatory ... speak . MYTH NUMBER TWO : Children must be taught a defined series of skills , including phonics , structural ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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