reading (early childhood)

While their parents are out, a big brother is supposed to be teaching his baby sister computer terms but he is involved in video games and doesn't notice her following his directions to the letter.

Presents a series of reading lessons for beginners based on nursery rhymes, each with related activities and student hand-outs, and includes four interactive plays, as well as four short readers theater scripts.

Presents practical guidelines, program descriptions, advice on resources, and strategies that can be used by parents and caregivers to provide children, from birth through the first years of formal training, with a solid basis upon which to build reading skills.

Addresses misunderstandings about guided reading instruction, discussing the role of the teacher, instructional reading level, balanced instruction, text gradients, integrated processing, and assessment, with twenty-seven strategies for working through problems.

Contains more than one thousand games, activities, songs, and stories designed to get children excited about reading.

Provides teachers, librarians, and parents with tips, techniques, activities, and more than fifty read-aloud plans for picture books and beginning reader books that can be used with children in first and second grade.

Introduces the concept of ability through simple text and photographs that describe the different things children can do, such as read stories, write, use a computer, and play the drums. Includes notes for adults and related activities.

Contains fourteen easy-to-read plays based on classic tales, such as "The Three Little Pigs" and "The Little Red Hen," and includes fluency building tips, extension activities, and reproducible pages.

Presents hundreds of activities designed to help preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders build a solid foundation for reading.