Reading for Our Lives

Reading for Our Lives
Title Reading for Our Lives PDF eBook
Author Maya Payne Smart
Publisher Penguin
Pages 241
Release 2022-08-02
Genre Education
ISBN 0593332180

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An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner. When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents’ work as children’s first teachers begins from day one too—and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions. Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all.

Reading Magic

Reading Magic
Title Reading Magic PDF eBook
Author Mem Fox
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 184
Release 2001
Genre Education
ISBN 9780156010764

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Literacy, helping your child to read.

Read for Your Life

Read for Your Life
Title Read for Your Life PDF eBook
Author Pat Williams
Publisher Health Communications, Inc.
Pages 326
Release 2007-06
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0757305458

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With a deluge of electronic conveniences and cable channels well into the hundreds, it's no wonder that many people aren't sitting down with a good old-fashioned book more often. Motivational speaker and lifelong reader Pat Williams is changing all of that, in this energetic book, Read for Your Life. With anecdotes and interviews from some of today's greatest icons in business, sports and academia, including Phoenix Suns' star Steve Nash (voted NBA's Most Valuable Player in 2005-06), Yankees' star Alex Rodriguez, Grant Hill of the Orlando Magic and former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani, Read for Your Life will help readers discover how reading can enhance their personal and professional thinking. Read for Your Life features 11 ways to transform one's life through books. - Publisher.

Reading Don't Fix No Chevys

Reading Don't Fix No Chevys
Title Reading Don't Fix No Chevys PDF eBook
Author Michael W. Smith
Publisher Paw Prints
Pages 0
Release 2008-11-11
Genre
ISBN 9781439573846

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Reading Families

Reading Families
Title Reading Families PDF eBook
Author Catherine Compton-Lilly
Publisher Teachers College Press
Pages 169
Release 2003
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0807742767

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This dynamic text offers a rare glimpse into the literacy development of urban children and their families' role in it. Based on the author's candid interviews with her first-grade students, their parents and grandparents, this book challenges the stereotypical view that urban parents don't care about their children's education. By listening closely to the voices of her students and their families, the author helps us to move beyond negative assumptions, revealing complexities that have previously been undocumented.

On Reading Well

On Reading Well
Title On Reading Well PDF eBook
Author Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher Brazos Press
Pages 288
Release 2018-09-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 1493415468

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★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys

Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys
Title Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys PDF eBook
Author Pam Allyn
Publisher Teaching Resources
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Best books
ISBN 9780545204552

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Essential resource to help boys create a sustainable reading life with rich resource lists of best books as well as practical lessons that encourage discussion and habits for reading