Raising Readers: Helping Your Child to Literacy (Paperback)

by Steven Bialostok (Author)

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Product Description
This bestselling book helps teachers answer all the questions that parents ask about their children’s reading. It helps make parents partners, not adversaries, in the learning process by explaining how current ways to teach reading correspond to the natural ways in which children acquire language. Includes sections on how to choose “good” books for children, commonly asked questions, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Peguis Publishers (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1895411378
• ISBN-13: 978-1895411379
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,036,114 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on the Subject I have read, November 11, 2002

By A Customer

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Timeless Classic, March 11, 2001

By	"winettab" (Ca) - See all my reviews

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You've got to read this book, July 9, 2004

By A Customer

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.