Raising a Rock-Star Reader: 75 Quick Tips for Helping Your Child Develop a Lifelong Love for Reading - Softcover

McDonald, Allison; Mascott, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545806178 ISBN 13: 9780545806176

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2015

Synopsis

From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards comes a must-have parents’ guide for raising lifelong readers and learners. Written for today’s time-crunched parents, this book is filled with easy-to-implement tips for creating a literate environment and fun, quick activities for building children’s oral language and early reading and writing skills. Just five minutes a day every day is all it takes to foster a child’s love of reading and learning. For use with Grades K-5.

About this title

About the Author:

Allison McDonald is a preschool teacher and the mom behind the popular early education website No Time For Flash Cards. While studying elementary education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Allison worked as a reading tutor and volunteered as a buddy reader for underprivileged children. When she paused her teaching career to start her own family, she started her website and filled it with hands-on activities to help parents and teachers. Allison began writing Raise a Reader blog on Scholastic Parents with Amy in 2012. Now that she is back in a classroom, she is eager to help even more children fall in love with books.

Review:

" Raising a Rock-Star Reader is a must-have for every parent, grandparent, caregiver: all who love and nurture a child! This wonderfully warm yet truly brilliant book

provides practical and accessible tips and exercises to actively engage all children in becoming lifelong readers and writers, right from the start."

- Pam Allyn, Literacy Advocate, Author and Founder of LitWorld

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0545806178
• ISBN 13: 9780545806176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128