Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
AUTHOR | Smart, Maya Payne |
PUBLISHER | Avery Publishing Group (08/02/2022) |
PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Description
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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9780593332177
ISBN-10:
0593332172
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
240
Carton Quantity:
12
Product Dimensions:
6.22 x 0.91 x 9.07 inches
Weight:
0.95 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
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Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Education | Language Experience Approach
Education | Teaching - Subjects - Reading & Phonics
Education | Parenting - General
Dewey Decimal:
372.4
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022010712
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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.
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