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Peer reviewedHill, Mary W. – Language Arts, 1982
Recounts an incident illustrating a child's development of communication skills and offers suggestions for parents to help facilitate that development. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Language Acquisition, Parent Role
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Discusses the importance of preschool literacy training. (FL)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Parent Role, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Babies, Books, and the Boob Tube: Preparing Preschoolers To Be School and Reading Ready and Willing.
Peer reviewedMiles, Betty – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1995
Discusses the importance of parents' helping children to read from birth and notes the most crucial and enjoyable way is reading aloud to children. Presents six basic skills that parents can help new readers to use: getting help from pictures; remembering; sounding out the letters; expecting what comes next; writing; and making sense of content.…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Content Analysis, Individual Needs, Memory
Clay, Marie – 1987
Intended for parents of preschoolers, this book offers samples of children's "writing" (defined as the funny signs and symbols that pencils make) and attempts to show how parents can support and expand children's discovery of printed language before children begin school. Each of the eight chapters contains numerous examples of young…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Language Acquisition
Download full textKarnofsky, Florence; Weiss, Trudy – 1993
Intended as a guide to help parents of children from birth to age 5 teach their children the skills needed to make kindergarten a experience, this book consists of an introduction and seven chapters on various aspects of preparing young children for kindergarten. Checklists for parents are included in each chapter. The Introduction discusses what…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Early Experience, Interpersonal Competence, Kindergarten
