ReadingRockets

Toddling Toward Reading: Images

By: Reading Rockets (2008)

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Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire

Singer Reba McEntire hosts "Toddling Toward Reading," the newest episode in the 10-part "Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers" series.

Bringing Up Baby

Reach Out and Read (ROR) encourages parents to read at least 30 minutes a day with their children

Reach Out and Read (ROR), a national organization that has folded literacy development into the practices of pediatricians across the country, encourages parents to read at least 30 minutes a day with their children. Pictured: Kimberly Johnson and her daughter, Ava, in McLean, Virginia.
Photo: Tony Awad © 2008

Making reading a fun time with a parent creates positive connections with reading

Making reading a fun time with a parent creates positive connections with reading.
Photo: Tony Awad © 2008

Pointing out and identifying pictures as part of literacy development

Pointing out and identifying pictures is part of literacy development. Photo: Tony Awad © 2008


Talking with young children helps them develop vocabulary and background knowledge

Talking with young children helps them develop vocabulary and background knowledge.
Photo: Tony Awad © 2008

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Child-Parent Centers

Teacher Carol Robinson, of the Parker Child-Parent Center in Chicago, trains parents to help their children become better readers

Teacher Carol Robinson, of the Parker Child-Parent Center in Chicago, trains parents to help their children become better readers.
Photo: David Banks © 2008

Teacher Carol Robinson, of the Parker Child-Parent Center in Chicago, helps parent Althea Slayden with paperwork

Teacher Carol Robinson, of the Parker Child-Parent Center in Chicago, helps parent Althea Slayden with paperwork. Photo: David Banks © 2008

Story time at The Parker Child-Parent Center

The Parker Child-Parent Center in Chicago features a high-quality preschool that helps get children ready for school. Photo: David Banks © 2008

Althea Slayden practices the reading strategies she's learned on her daughter, Nygeria

Parent Althea Slayden practices the reading strategies she's learned on her daughter, Nygeria. Photo: David Banks © 2008

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Inclusion

Avery painting

Avery, a five-year-old student with Down syndrome at the Coralwood Diagnostic Center in Decatur, Georgia, thrives in an inclusion model preschool classroom. Photo: Travis Hudgons © 2008

Avery in class at Coralwood



Coralwood mixes special needs students with typically developing students and provides many therapies in the classroom. Photo: Travis Hudgons © 2008


Avery and Caroline

Coralwood's inclusion model means that children with special needs, like Avery, learn alongside typically developing kids, like her friend Caroline. Photo: Travis Hudgons © 2008

Avery and her teacher

Avery's teachers say that modeling by other students helps Avery learn. Photo: Travis Hudgons © 2008

Avery learning from other children

Developing friendships help special needs children see how other children work. Avery spends every day working with other students who can model skills that take her more time to master.
Photo: Travis Hudgons © 2008

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Reading Maestros

Dr. Rebecca Palacios and preschool student

Master teacher Dr. Rebecca Palacios, who teaches a dual language preschool program at Zavala Elementary in Corpus Christi, Texas, also mentors teachers in training. Photo: George Tuley © 2008

Students in Dr. Palacios' classroom trace the shape of vowels in the air

Students in Dr. Palacios' classroom trace the shape of vowels in the air as part of a demanding preschool curriculum. Photo: George Tuley © 2008


Dr. Palacios, PhD in Education, creates a literacy-rich preschool environment

Dr. Palacios, who holds a PhD in Education and has more than 30 years of classroom experience, creates a literacy-rich preschool environment. Photo: George Tuley © 2008

Justin Gonzalez


Justin Gonzalez comes home from Zavala Preschool so excited he can't talk fast enough to describe his day, according to his mother. Photo: George Tuley © 2008


Dr. Palacios conducts hands-on projects that help preschoolers build their vocabulary and develop background knowledge

Dr. Palacios conducts hands-on projects that help preschoolers build their vocabulary and develop background knowledge. Photo: George Tuley © 2008

Dr. Palacios conducting individual assessment of student

Dr. Palacios, who believes children will rise to expectations, regularly conducts individual assessments of students. Photo: George Tuley © 2008

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