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Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Sorcerer’s Stone? Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists, How to Raise a Reader shows you how to instill the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading.
Divided into four sections, from baby through teen, and each illustrated by a different artist, this book offers...
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[1986, c1983]
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SRA's DISTAR is one of the most successful beginning reading programs available to schools. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR method outperform their peers. Now, this program has been adapted for use at home. In only 20 minutes a day, this remarkable step-by-step program teaches your child to read--with the love, care, and joy only a parent and child can share.
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2003
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What were my kids born to do? That is the question I hope to help them answer. And because reading is the thing I love most, it's only natural for me to hope it will become something they love, too...The trouble is that reading is a particularly slippery passion to want to pass along because it's a skill most parents would agree their children have to master, to one degree or another.
--from Raising a Reader
Can passion be passed along from parent...
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2022.
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"Teaching Your Child to Read is a guide book for parents looking to get their children, ages 3 to 6, interested in reading. It explains how to help children cultivate reading ability step by step, as well as answers the questions of Why should I? and How do I? when it comes to specific exercises."--Amazon.com.
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2022.
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"The quintessential guide to creating a book club for parents and kids, and raising children into book-loving adults, plus tons of curated book lists"--
In 2008 a group of first grade moms formed a neighborhood book club with their kids. It was a simple, if ambitious idea to cultivate their kids' love of reading as well as their first real friendships-- and gave the parents an excuse to get together. Here they discuss how the book club helps the...
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[2006]
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Shares eight humorous stories with complex words for beginning readers. New blends, more sight words, and longer complex words advance readers' skills, while sounds repetition keeps reading easy. Meaningful stories and playful pictures help kids stay absorbed and continue building interest in reading
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[2000]
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The most comprehensive and authoritative book of its kind has been completely updated for the new millennium. It contains hundreds of new entries, many expanded descriptions, and notations of additional companion and related titles - more than 1,700 in all. The best-loved classics of the twentieth century are included, as well as a thoughtful selection of outstanding titles from the last decade.