A Child Becomes a Reader II: Kindergarten through Grade Three

This booklet offers advice for parents of children from grades K-3 on how to support reading development at home and how to recognize effective instruction in their children's classrooms. (National Institute for Literacy, The Partnership for Reading)

PDF icon A Child Becomes a Reader II: Kindergarten through Grade Three

Publication Date: 

2006
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!" — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
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