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Reading for our lives : a literacy action plan from birth to six / Maya Payne Smart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Avery, Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]Description: viii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593332177
  • 0593332172
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
We should all be readers -- Beyond bedtime stories: the truth about getting kids ready to read -- The long run: how to nurture reading at each age and stage -- Yes you can: five touchstones for parents who dare to teach -- You're hired: essential lessons every parent can--and should--give kids -- Nourishing words: the lasting impact of early language -- Taking turns: how to make conversation a habit from day one -- Sound instruction: the tenor of reading success -- L is for Liberation: how to help kids crack the alphabetic code -- Word wisdom: how to spell your way to better reading -- Extra credit: how savvy parents keep learning -- Raising all readers -- how to assess childcare providers and schools from an early-literacy perspective.
Summary: "Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all"-- Provided by publisher
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 372.4 S636 Available 33111011009772
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 372.4 S636 Available 33111010897458
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner.

When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents' work as children's first teachers begins from day one too--and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions.

Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-223) and index.

We should all be readers -- Beyond bedtime stories: the truth about getting kids ready to read -- The long run: how to nurture reading at each age and stage -- Yes you can: five touchstones for parents who dare to teach -- You're hired: essential lessons every parent can--and should--give kids -- Nourishing words: the lasting impact of early language -- Taking turns: how to make conversation a habit from day one -- Sound instruction: the tenor of reading success -- L is for Liberation: how to help kids crack the alphabetic code -- Word wisdom: how to spell your way to better reading -- Extra credit: how savvy parents keep learning -- Raising all readers -- how to assess childcare providers and schools from an early-literacy perspective.

"Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all"-- Provided by publisher

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