Reading Begins at Home: Preparing Children Before They Go to School [Paperback]

Dorothy Butler (Author), Marie M. Clay (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0435084437 | ISBN-13: 978-0435084431 | Publication Date: September 15, 1987 | Edition: Upd Sub

Butler and Clay present easy and informal ways to prepare a child to begin reading and to help him or her respond positively to written words. Their book has helped thousands of parents and teachers.

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“Butler and Clay have provided not only parents but also educators with a much-needed book...I highly recommend Reading Begins at Home, I feel it should be on the bookshelves of parents, grandparents, and teachers.”–The Reading Teacher

About the Author

Dorothy Butler is a teacher, bookseller, author, and children's literature advocate known and respected throughout the world. She lives in New Zealand, where she enjoys reading as often as she can with her twenty-one grandchildren.

Marie Clay, FRSNZ, FNZPsS, FNZEI(Hon),Emeritus Professor, taught in primary schools and then at the University of Auckland where, for the next 30 years she introduced educational psychologists to ways of preventing psychological problems. She did post-graduate study in Developmental Psychology at the University of Minnesota on a Fulbright Scholarship and completed her doctorate at the University of Auckland with a thesis entitled "Emergent Literacy." Her 'Reading (and writing) Recovery' is an early literacy intervention, which is now implemented in five countries, and three languages. Literacy Lessons Designed For Individuals integrates what has been learned from that innovation with new research and theoretical advocacies. Shifts in early literacy learning can be monitored by teachers using her Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement in English, Spanish and French. A series of individual lessons can be delivered in those languages to about 150,000 children worldwide annually using a guidebook called Reading Recovery: Guidelines for Teachers in Training. Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals is a similar guidebook which aims to make accelerated progress possible for a wider range of problems. Marie Clay was past-President of the International Reading Association, served on the editorial committees of professional journals, was a research consultant at home and abroad including UNESCO, chaired a Social Science Research Committee advising government on policies and research allocations, and worked internationally with problem-solving related to early intervention research and practice.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Heinemann; Upd Sub edition (September 15, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0435084437
• ISBN-13: 978-0435084431
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,473,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable Introduction to Reading with Children, March 8, 2011

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Kimberly Sacha "raisin99" (Sammamish, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reading Begins at Home, Second Edition: Preparing Children Before They Go to School (Paperback)

I read the 1982 printing of this book, which is only 43 pages long. I'd recommend this book if you're interested in a reasonable approach to the whole-word (or concept) approach to reading. That didn't apply to my situation, since my son started teaching himself to read by sounding out individual letters and decoding. Butler and Clay also explain how to help your youngster become excited about reading and incorperate learning into everyday circumstances, which is very valuable no matter which approach you will use.