Raising a Rock-Star Reader

by Amy Mascott, Allison McDonald

Overview

From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards comes a must-have parents’ guide for raising lifelong readers and learners. Written for today’s time-crunched parents, this book is filled with easy-to-implement tips for creating a literate environment and fun, quick activities for building children’s oral language and early reading andwriting skills. Just five minutes a day every day is all it takes to foster a child’s love of reading and learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545806176
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/30/2015
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amy Mascott is the creator of teachmama.com, where since 2008, she has shared tools and resources parents can use to become the best teachers they can be for their children. A reading specialist, writer, and literacy consultant, Amy’s work has been featured on dozens of online and print publications, including Scholastic Parents, PBS Parents, readwritethink.org, PBS Digital Studios, and more. A former high school English teacher, Amy often shares her expertise at local and national conferences and events. Married to an elementary school principal, Amy resides in the DC Metro with her three crazy-cool kids, a dog, two birds, and four fish.
Allison McDonald is a preschool teacher and the mom behind the popular early education website No Time For Flash Cards. While studying elementary education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Allison worked as a reading tutor and volunteered as a buddy reader for underprivileged children. When she paused her teaching career to start her own family, she started her website and filled it with hands-on activities to help parents and teachers. Allison began writing Raise a Reader blog on Scholastic Parents with Amy in 2012. Now that she is back in a classroom, she is eager to help even more children fall in love with books.

Table of Contents

About the Authors 4

Introduction 5

Chapter 1 A House of Books 9

Chapter 2 Talk to Me, Kid 27

Chapter 3 It's All About the Book 47

Chapter 4 Sound Check: Playing With Sounds 54

Chapter 5 Learn, Those, Letters! 67

Chapter 6 S-s-s-s-sounding it All Out 78

Chapter 7 Look Whp's Learning to Read! 88

Chapter 8 Let's Put Some Writing on That Wall (or paper, at least) 100

Chapter 9 Reading and Talking and Thinking-Oh, My! 112

Chapter 10 Time to Get Techy 123

Editorial Reviews

“ Raising a Rock-Star Reader is a must-havefor every parent, grandparent, caregiver: all who love and nurture a child! This wonderfully warm yet truly brilliant book

provides practical and accessible tips and exercises to actively engage all children in becoming lifelong readers and writers, right from the start.”

— Pam Allyn, Literacy Advocate, Author and Founder of LitWorld

“As an award-winning educational blogger and educator, I’ve been familiar with the incredible work Amy and Allison have done for years. However, not only as a teacher do I appreciate what they share, but as a mother of two children, I often find myself turning to their resources and advice to support my efforts at home and within the classroom. Raising a Rock-Star Reader is truly the book I have been waiting for: one that is filled with practical tips I can read today and try tomorrow. These ladies have packed this book with priceless step-by-step guides, easy-to-understand language, beautiful visuals, and creative tips to help each person feel the success they’ve been craving for each young reader to possess. This is not only a book you’ll read cover to cover; it’s one you’ll find yourself referring to time and time again for those ‘just-right’ ideas that simply work!”
 
—ERIN KLEIN
Scholastic Top Teacher, Speaker, Author, Award-Winning Educator

From the Publisher