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Refers to schema, the knowledge and experience that readers bring to the text.
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A Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas from Research for Parents Kindergarten through Grade 3The road to becoming a reader begins the day a child is born and continues through the end of third grade. At that point, a child must read with ease and understanding to take advantage of the …
How to Raise a ReaderRead out loud, every day. Any book. You can read anything to a newborn: a cookbook, a dystopian novel, a parenting manual. The content doesn’t matter. What does matter is the sound of your voice, the …
Learning About Your Child’s Reading DevelopmentLearning to read is difficult. While spoken language develops in most cases naturally, reading requires explicit, systematic instruction. This page from The National Center on Improving Literacy, …
