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Reading for Our Lives audiobook
- By: Maya Payne Smart
- Narrator: Maya Payne Smart
- Category: Education, Reading & Phonics, Teaching Methods & Materials
- Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Reading for Our Lives Audiobook Summary
An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner.
When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents’ work as children’s first teachers begins from day one too—and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions.
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.
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Reading for Our Lives Full Details
| Narrator | Maya Payne Smart |
| Length | 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Author | Maya Payne Smart |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593583753 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Reading for Our Lives is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: literacy books, reading, education books, parenting books, literacy, parenting, education, homeschool books, how to homeschool, parenting books for toddlers, child development, family, mindfulness, discipline, relationships, parenting book, relationship books, attachment, drama, phonics, children, learning, educational psychology, phonics for kindergarten, attachments, teaching, child anxiety, language, communication, reference, writing, toddler, how to, homeschooling, self help, psychology, baby books, baby, work, linguistics, Education, Teaching Methods & Materials, Reading & Phonics, Family & Relationships, Parenting, General, Education, Parent Participation The BISAC Subject Code is Education, Reading & Phonics, Teaching Methods & Materials
Additional info
The publisher of the Reading for Our Lives is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593583753.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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