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Getting Your Child to Love Reading
Helping your children to enjoy reading is one of the most important things you can do as a parent and well worth the investment of your time and energy. Kids will learn reading skills in school, but often they come to associate reading with work, not pleasure. As a result, they lose their desire to ...
Source: U.S. Department of Education
How Can Beginning Reading Be Improved?
Kindergarten and grade 1 teachers should be provided with good systematic phonics materials and given training in how to use them. Why? There are five essential elements of a beginning reading program: decoding via systematic and direct phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and ...
Source: Society for Quality Education
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Making Words for Reading Readiness
Experts agree: parents need to turn off the TV as much as possible. But come to the hour before dinner, when stews boil,...
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Helping Your Child Become a Reader: Resources for Children
Here's a sampling of books, computer programs, and Web sites that you and your child can enjoy together. Check with your...
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A Child Becomes a Reader: Kindergarten through Grade 3
Introduction The road to becoming a reader begins the day a child is born and continues through the end of third grade....
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How to Get Preschoolers Excited About Reading
You are your child's first teacher. That's why it's important that you show them how much fun reading can be and prepare...
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Children and Books: Begin the Connection Early!
Adults often think that children learn about reading in the primary grades. But the truth is that many children already...
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