Reading for our lives : a literacy action plan from birth to six
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
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Y/PARENT/PARENTHOOD/SMART,M
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PUBLISHED
New York : Avery, Penguin Random House LLC, 2022
DESCRIPTION
231 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593332177, 0593332172 :, 0593332172, 9780593332177
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
"Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all"--