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 104
... Workbooks are a common form of practice in this country , with most children spending much of their school time practicing in workbooks . A workbook is a consumable paperback that is part of a basal program . ( " Consumable " means that ...
... Workbooks are a common form of practice in this country , with most children spending much of their school time practicing in workbooks . A workbook is a consumable paperback that is part of a basal program . ( " Consumable " means that ...
Page 108
... workbooks but learn in spite of them . There are , however , a multitude of children who cannot do workbook pages ... workbooks because so many parents expect their children to use them . Parents spend a substantial amount of time ...
... workbooks but learn in spite of them . There are , however , a multitude of children who cannot do workbook pages ... workbooks because so many parents expect their children to use them . Parents spend a substantial amount of time ...
Page 136
... workbooks because they are perceptible evidence of something occurring in school ( workbooks can often be the only tangible evidence of learning in the classroom ) . There are many more effective tangible items that children can bring ...
... workbooks because they are perceptible evidence of something occurring in school ( workbooks can often be the only tangible evidence of learning in the classroom ) . There are many more effective tangible items that children can bring ...
Contents
Foreword | vii |
Why Do We Read? We Read for Meaning | 7 |
Prediction Through Experience | 17 |
Copyright | |
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