TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smart,Maya Payne
TI  - Reading for our lives: a literacy action plan from birth to six 
SN  - 0593332172
AV  - LB1573 .S67 2022
U1  - 372.4 23/eng/20220425
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
KW  - Children
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Readiness for school
KW  - Reading (Elementary)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -