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Raise a Child Who Loves to Read
How do kids really learn to read? And how can you encourage interest in reading and writing from the start? In Raising Confident Readers, based on the five phases of literacy development, Dr. J. Richard Gentry provides fun and easy ways to teach your child to read and write successfully.
When it comes to language, the most critical brain growth happens in early childhood. Raising Confident Readers shows you how to activate and accelerate this capacity for learning: The key is to introduce the right activities at the right time. Whether your child is a baby or toddler, in preschool or kindergarten, or first or second grade, Dr. Gentry helps you identify your child’s literacy phase and take the next steps to build writing, reading, and spelling skills. You’ll discover:
As your child moves through the five phases, they’ll soon be sounding out and spelling words correctly, reading chapter books independently, and writing creative stories on their own. Complete with samples of children’s writing throughout, Raising Confident Readers is an essential resource to foster your child’s lifelong love of reading.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Start Early: Nurture Your Child's Brain as It Grows into Reading 15
2 The Brain-Based Formula: Repetition-Enthusiasm-Attention-Drawing 28
3 Find Your Child's Phase: Determine Where to Go and What to Do Next to Raise YOUR Confident Reader 43
4 Teaching Reading in Phase 0: Building Foundations-From Reading Aloud at Birth to Teaching Your Child to Write His Own Name 65
5 Teaching Reading in Phase 1: It's Time for the ABC's 100
6 Teaching Reading in Phase 2: Mapping Letters to Sounds-It's EZ For U to Read! 125
7 Teaching Reading in Phase 3: Spelling with a Letter for Each Sound-"The Cat Sat on the Mat" + Phonics = Reading Up a Storm! 152
8 Teaching Reading in Phase 4: From Chunking to Chapter Books-The Final Climb to Confident Reading 181
9 Is Everything on Track?: Awakening Literacy with Confidence 207
Appendix: Special Memories and Keepsakes 219
Notes 225
References 231
Credits 235
Index 237
Overview
Raise a Child Who Loves to Read
How do kids really learn to read? And how can you encourage interest in reading and writing from the start? In Raising Confident Readers, based on the five phases of literacy development, Dr. J. Richard Gentry provides fun and easy ways to teach your child to read and write successfully.
When it comes to language, the most critical brain growth happens in early childhood. Raising Confident Readers ...