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29 Smart Steps to Teach Your Smart Kid to Read
Contributor(s): Lau, Stephen (Author)

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 ISBN: 1533003130     ISBN-13: 9781533003133
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $7.32  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Study Aids | Study & Test-taking Skills
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.41 lbs) 120 pages
 
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This is a 117-page book on teaching children to read. It is the responsibility of parents, not the teachers, to teach children to read. There are 29 steps that begin as early as babies are only one-month old. These steps span over the infant stage, the pre-reading stage, the reading-readiness stage, the reading stage, the reading reinforcement stage, and the writing stage. STEP 1: Developing Motor Abilities & Sensory Perception STEP 2: Initiating Imitation STEP 3: Developing Thinking STEP 4: Pointing at Things STEP 5: Developing Active Speech STEP 6: Familiarizing with the Orientation of Print STEP 7: Teaching Perception and Discrimination STEP 8: Teaching Visual/Perceptual Consistency STEP 9: Auditory, Visual Sequencing, and Memory Skills STEP 10: Introducing Finger Painting STEP 11: Beginning Writing Skill STEP 12: Introducing Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies STEP 13: Introducing Picture Story Books STEP 14: Teaching Prediction STEP 15: Teaching Word Recognition STEP 16: Teaching the Alphabet STEP 17: Teaching Pronunciation STEP 18: Developing Independent Reading STEP 19: Learning Sounds and Their Letters STEP 20: Encouraging Printing STEP 21: Lap Reading STEP 22: Shared Reading STEP 23: Paired Reading STEP 24: Teaching Language Irregularities STEP 25: Extending Sight Vocabulary STEP 26: Encouraging the Use of Symbols STEP 27: Exploring Different Modes of Discourse STEP 28: Creating a Proper Writing Environment STEP 29: Teaching the Sentence These steps with games and activities, as well as interactions with parents, will develop and enhance the basic reading skills necessary for ultimate reading proficiency. The steps are based on how the author taught his daughter to read more than three decades ago; she learned how to read as soon as she turned three, and now she is an attorney in the United States.
 
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