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Reading Together
Marilyn Jager Adams once wrote that "Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read." That's a powerful statement! Read with your kids every day, and watch them blossom.
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- Reading With Your Grandchildren
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For parents
- How to Read an E-Book with Your Child
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- Reading to Two: A Double Challenge
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- Reading Adventure Packs: A School-to-Home Project
For teachers
- Top Tips for Engaging Dads
- Reader's Theater: Giving Students a Reason to Read Aloud
- Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension
Just for dads!
- The Role of Fathers in Their Child's Literacy Development: Pre-K
- The Role of Fathers in Their Child's Literacy Development: K-3
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- Helping Your Child Become a Reader
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Research
- Effects of Reading to Infants and Toddlers on Their Early Language Development
- Relationships Between Inferential Book Reading Strategies and Young Children's Language and Literacy Competence
- Print Books vs. E-books
- Repeated Book Reading and Preschoolers' Early Literacy Development
