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Author Gentry, J. Richard.

Title Raising confident readers : how to teach your child to read and write, from baby to age seven / J. Richard Gentry.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo LifeLong, 2010.

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Edition First Da Capo Press edition.
Description ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Learn how to activate and accelerate your child's capacity for learning: the key is to introduce the right activities at the right time. You'll learn how to identify your child's literacy phase and take the next steps to build writing, reading and spelling skills.
Contents Start early: nurture you child's brain as it grows into reading -- The brain-based formula: repetition-enthusiasm-attention-drawing -- Find your child's phase: determine where to go and what to do next to raise your confident reader -- Teaching reading in phase 0: building foundations, from reading aloud at birth to teaching your child to write his own name -- Teaching reading in phase 1: it's time for the ABC's -- Teaching reading in phase 2: mapping letters to sounds-- it's EZ for U to read! -- Teaching reading in phase 3: Spelling with a letter for each sound: "The cat sat on the mat" + phonics = reading up a storm! -- Teaching reading in phase 4: from chunking to chapter books: the final climb to confident reading -- Is everything on track?: awakening literacy with confidence.
Subject Language arts (Early childhood)
Early childhood education -- Parent participation.
Early childhood education -- Activity programs.
Individualized instruction.
ISBN 9780738213972 alkaline paper
0738213977 alkaline paper
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