Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success

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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success

		Foreword		vi
		Introduction		1
		Guide to This Book		2
		Promoting Children’s Reading Success		5
		Circumstances That Promote Reading		8
		Growing Up to Read Birth Through Age Four		15
		Key Aspects of Language and Literacy, Activities for Very Young Children		19
		★Extended Vocabulary and Language Development
		★Phonological Awareness
		★Speech Discrimination
		★Knowledge of Narrative
		★Book and Print Awareness
		★Functions of Print
		★Print Concepts
		★Letter and Early Word Recognition
		★Comprehension
		★Literacy as a Source of Enjoyment★
		Literacy—from Parent to Child		42
		Talking to a Baby: Day Care Environments		43
		High-Quality Preschool		44
		Language and Literacy Activities in Preschool		46
		★Phonological Awareness
		★Sociodramatic Play
		★Listening
		★Oral Language
		★Shared Reading
		★Exposure to Books
		★Letter-Naming
		★Writing
		★Computer-Based Literacy★
		Accomplishments of the Very Young Child		58
		Early Childhood Educators		58
		Becoming Real Readers Kindergarten Through Grade Three		61
		Individual Children		61
		The Kindergarten Challenge		65
		What Must Be Accomplished—Goals of Kindergarten		65
		Activities and Practices for Kindergartners		66
		★Book and Print Awareness
		★Phonological Awareness
		★Language, Comprehension, and Response to Text
		★Letter Recognition, Decoding, and Word Recognition
		★Spelling and Writing
		Accomplishments of the Kindergarten Student		84

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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success (1999)
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