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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... Talking with your child , encouraging oral language , provides him or her with a vocabulary that is useful and necessary ... talk is the most critical " homework " that parents can do with children just emerging into literacy - and with ...
... Talking with your child , encouraging oral language , provides him or her with a vocabulary that is useful and necessary ... talk is the most critical " homework " that parents can do with children just emerging into literacy - and with ...
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... talk when they are ready . And children begin to read when they are ready . The reason that walking and talking occurs without much worry is because we trust children . We trust that they'll learn to walk and we trust that they'll talk ...
... talk when they are ready . And children begin to read when they are ready . The reason that walking and talking occurs without much worry is because we trust children . We trust that they'll learn to walk and we trust that they'll talk ...
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Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. Q.I hear a lot of talk about " whole language " at my child's school . Is this a new program ? A. All this whole language talk is confusing for every- body , including teachers . I'm not ...
Helping Your Child to Literacy Steven Bialostok. Q.I hear a lot of talk about " whole language " at my child's school . Is this a new program ? A. All this whole language talk is confusing for every- body , including teachers . I'm not ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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