Reading for our lives : a literacy action plan from birth to six / Maya Payne Smart.

By:

Smart, Maya Payne

Publisher: New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2022]Description: viii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0593332172
9780593332177

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Reading for our livesDDC classification:

372.4 23/eng/20220425

LOC classification:

LB1573 .S67 2022

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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