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From Book Reading is a crucial skill for functioning in everyday life. And now, thanks to the versatile, proven-effective techniques in this book, everyone can learn and enjoy reading -- even handicapped and other preschoolers, the developmentally disabled, and children with language difficulties. These teaching methods, designed for use by parents and teachers in cooperation, Building kids' pre-reading learning to recognize pictures, letters, and sounds. Encouraging them to tell and listen to stories. playing games. building a "word bank." and familiarizing them with often-seen words on street signs, on cereal boxes, and so on. Reading is for Everyone also supplies the guidelines you need to make such specialized approaches as symbol accentuation both fun and functional, including ways find the right teaching level with a simple checklist. gauge and record a child's progress. get reluctant listeners to pay attention. bridge the gap from pictures to print. and more. Complete with a selected book list, reading schemes, and a list of teaching-aid suppliers, Reading I for Everyone will help you assure that your child won't miss out on one of life's most useful and pleasurable activities.