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Raising Readers: Helping Your Child to Literacy

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I stumbled upon this book by recommendation of a friend. What an amazing book. Bialostok's discourse is fettered with concrete ideas, wonderful strategies, and parents and teachers will especially love this book!! (I am both). The narration is lucid and captivating - the editing is superb. I now understand why my friend was so excited over this book.

Bialostok presents information in Raising Readers that provide invaluable information to parents as well as teacher. As an educator and a mother, I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to encourage your child or students to become literature lovers. Bialostok uses language and ideas that are accessible to all.

I am a parent of a kindergarten and second grade child. Someone told me about this book a year ago and I just got around to reading it. I don't know why I waited this long. I've read lots of books about children and reading but Raising Readers is by far the best...FAR better than Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook. This is not so much a book about what to do with your young child to teach them but how young children LEARN to read by reading to them. The book is informative, funny, easily read, and honest. Every parent of a young child (or even an older child) shoud read it.

I feel relatively certain you'll be surprised by this book, and very pleased with it. Like one of the other reviewers, I heard about it from a friend -- It's not the kind of literacy theory that gets promoted on TV. After I first read it 9 years ago, it was as if I finally understood something that I always should have understood, and something that I remember *wishing* I'd understood while growing up. The ideas and approaches that Bialostok clearly and engagingly lays out just make so much sense, though they are not the way most people think about reading. Since '94, I've given a copy of this book to all of my friends when they have their first kid. Enjoy!

As a parent, I would highly recommend this book to parents who want their children to develop a love for reading. The concepts make a lot of sense.