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Book SynopsisFrom one of the nation's top educators, a wise book that shows parents how to create homes where children learn with enthusiasm.
Table of Contents* Talk: The Foundation of Literacy * Reading Aloud: An Apprenticeship in the Literate Life * Early Writing: Growing Young Authors * Early Reading: First Things First * Playing Well: Building Cities Out of Blocks and Finding Worlds in the Backyard * Helping Children Develop Good Work Habits: Hobbies, Projects, Chores, and the Lessons They Teach * Reading and the Middle Childhood Years * Writing and the Middle Childhood Years * Finding Our Way Through Todays Math * Helping Children Develop the Wide-Awake Curiosity of Scientists * Social Studies: People, Places, Dates and a Habit of Mind and Heart * A Lesson Without Words
