Raising Kids Who Read : What Parents and Teachers Can Do.

Intro -- Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Have Fun, Start Now -- Chapter 1: The Science of Reading -- The Role of Sound in Reading -- The Visual Task in Learning to Read -- Learning Letter-to-Sound Mappings -- Learning to Hear Speech Sounds -- The Role of Knowledge in Comprehension -- Building Meaning across Sentences -- What's a "Good Reader"? -- So Where Do You Get Broad Knowledge? -- Motivation -- Attitudes toward Reading -- The Origins of Emotional Attitudes -- Reading Self-Concept -- Notes -- Part I: Birth Through Preschool -- Chapter 2: Preparing Your Child to Learn to Decode -- Helping Your Child Hear Speech Sounds -- Motherese -- Wordplay -- Learning Letters -- Teaching Letter Names -- Print Referencing -- Letters in the Wild -- When Should Reading Instruction Start? -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Creating a Thirst for Knowledge -- Building Vocabulary -- Building Knowledge -- Reading Aloud -- How Do You Get Started? -- Dialogic Reading -- Commonsense Read-Aloud Tips -- Electronic Books for Read-Alouds -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Seeing Themselves as Readers before They Can Read -- Indirect Influences -- Indirect Influences on Attitudes -- Indirect Influences on Self-Concept -- Getting Young Children to Read -- How Do We Choose? -- Making Reading the Most Attractive Choice -- Keeping Screen Time under Control -- Teaching Independence -- Notes -- Part II: Kindergarten Through Second Grade -- Chapter 5: Learning to Decode -- What's Happening at School -- Two Traditional Methods of Teaching Reading -- Who's Right? -- Reading Classrooms Today -- Reading with Your Child -- Teaching Your Child -- When to Be Concerned -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Banking Knowledge for the Future -- Understanding Longer Texts -- Capturing Big Ideas.

Background Knowledge Revisited -- What's Happening at School -- Slowly Increasing Demands on Comprehension -- The Importance of Acquiring Background Knowledge -- Making Time -- What to Do at Home -- Talking -- Reading -- Playing -- Gaining Independence -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Preventing a Motivation Backslide -- What's Happening at School -- Self-Concept -- Attitudes -- Features of Great Classrooms -- What to Do at Home -- Keep It Up -- How Parents Can Shape Reading Self-Concept -- Your Attitude toward Your Child's Reading -- Practice via Practical Literacy -- Notes -- Part III: Third Grade and Beyond -- Chapter 8: Reading with Fluency -- The Second Type of Decoding: Reading via Spelling -- Fluency and Attention -- Fluency and Prosody -- Learning to Read via Spelling -- What's Happening at School -- What to Do at Home -- Is There a Problem? -- What Does a Dysfluent Reader Need? -- The Indirect Route -- Digital Difference -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Working with More Complex Texts -- What's Happening at School -- Noticing When Comprehension Fails -- Reading Comprehension Strategies -- A Little Is Enough -- A New Demand: Working with Texts -- Digital Literacy -- What to Do at Home -- Knowledge in the Digital Age -- When a Lack of Knowledge Hurts Comprehension -- Notes -- Chapter 10: The Reluctant Older Reader -- What's Happening at School -- Rewards -- Pleasure Reading -- Other Features of Great Reading Classrooms -- What to Do at Home -- Are Gadgets Killing Reading? -- Positive Steps -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Accessing the Bonus Web Content -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Readable Reviews of the Scientific Literature on Reading -- Resources about Raising a Reader -- Dyslexia -- Choosing Books -- Social Networks for Teen Readers -- Hi-Lo Publishers -- Works Cited -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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