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Book SynopsisHow parents and educators can teach kids to love reading in the digital age Everyone agrees that reading is important, but kids today tend to lose interest in reading before adolescence. In Raising Kids Who Read, bestselling author and psychology professor Daniel T.
Table of ContentsAbout the Author vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Have Fun, Start Now 1
1 The Science of Reading 7
Part I: Birth Through Preschool
2 Preparing Your Child to Learn to Decode 31
3 Creating a Thirst for Knowledge 41
4 Seeing Themselves as Readers before They Can Read 57
Part II: Kindergarten Through Second Grade
5 Learning to Decode 75
6 Banking Knowledge for the Future 95
7 Preventing a Motivation Backslide 113
Part III: Third Grade and Beyond
8 Reading with Fluency 131
9 Working with More Complex Texts 145
10 The Reluctant Older Reader 165
Conclusion 189
Appendix: Accessing the Bonus Web Content 193
Suggestions for Further Reading 195
Works Cited 199
Index 219
