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ERIC Number: EJ555870
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0894-2498
Babies, Books, and the Boob Tube: Preparing Preschoolers To Be School and Reading Ready and Willing.
Miles, Betty
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, v9 n1 p33-40,43 Fall 1995
Discusses the importance of parents' helping children to read from birth and notes the most crucial and enjoyable way is reading aloud to children. Presents six basic skills that parents can help new readers to use: getting help from pictures; remembering; sounding out the letters; expecting what comes next; writing; and making sense of content. (AEF)
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Content Analysis, Individual Needs, Memory, Parent Role, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Motivation, Reading Skills, School Readiness, Writing Readiness
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Pictures; Sounding (Language)
Note: Paper presented at the Annual ALA Conference (Chicago, IL, June 26, 1995).