Your Child Learns To Read and Write

This book offers experiences, research, and advice of parents and experts studying how children learn. Divided into five sections, it is designed to make finding specific information easy. Sections include: How children learn to read and write, Infants start on the road to literacy, Toddlers become aware of reading and writing, Preschoolers gain understanding of print, Primary-graders begin to read and write. Your Child Learns to Read and Write focuses on the whole child as s/he learns to read and write, emphasizing experiences in every section for both intellectual and language development. Marjorie V. Fields. 1998. 125 pp.
ISBN-13 978-0-87173-143-6.

No. 1983 $22.00 ($14.40 ACEI members)

Table of Contents

Guidelines for Using This Book
Section 1: How Children Learn to Read & Write
Chapter 1--Reading All Around Us
Chapter 2--Mystery Messages: Children's Early Writing
Chapter 3--Listening & Talking, Reading & Writing
Chapter 4--Playing Around & Getting Around
Section 2: Your Infant Starts on Road to Literacy
Chapter 5--Defeating Boredom, the Enemy of Learning
Chapter 6--A Language-Rich Environment
Section 3: Your Toddler Becomes Aware of Reading & Writing
Chapter 7--First Words
Chapter 8--Learning & Doing
Chapter 9--Wonderful Scribbles
Chapter 10--Please Don't Eat the Books
Section 4: Your Preschooler Gains Understanding of Print
Chapter 11--An Explosion of Language
Chapter 12--Read It Again
Chapter 13--I Sure Said Lots of Words
Chapter 14--What Does It Say?
Chapter 15--Let's Pretend
Chapter 16--I Go To School
Section 5: Your Primary-Grader Begins to Read & Write
Chapter 17--A Writer In A Literate Society
Chapter 18--You Read & Then I Read
Chapter 19--Learning By Doing
Chapter 20--Choosing The Very Best
Chater 21--Troubleshooting
Chapter 22--Accomplished, Eager Readers & Writers
Bibliography
Index

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