Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
Maya Payne Smart, "Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six"
English | ISBN: 0593332172 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0593332172 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
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.
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