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After decades of testing, reading scores rose one point.
One family's "special" tutoring in reading.
The rise of testing and the death of "playtime."
Are you suggesting this reading stuff is the job of the parent? I thought it was the school's job.
One welfare mother and her Pultizer-winning son.
Can We Really Change Families and Homes in America?
Will this book help me teach my child to read?
I own a previous edition. How is this edition different from previous ones?
How did a parent come to write this book instead of a professor?
How do I convince my husband he should be doing this with our children?
Is reading still important in a video age?
Considering today's economy and rising costs, is college worth the money?

How old must a child be before you start reading to him?”
Is “in utero learning” a myth?
What about reading aloud to children with special needs?
What could you expect if you started reading to a child on day one?
What if my child prefers to read on her own?
Can you recommend something that will teach my child to read before kindergarten?
How is my child’s reading going to get better if I’m doing the reading?
How can I expand my child’s attention span?
Is there something I could buy that would help my child read better?
At what age should I stop reading to my child?
Would reading aloud to them help children with grammar?
How do we improve the basics like writing and spelling?
Is it ever too late to start reading to a child?
How does this fit with the calls for higher national standards?
Educating the heart, not just the IQ.

What can you read to a new-born?
Which books are best for infants?
What is normal behavior of the infant or toddler during readings?
What comes after mother goose?
Why do they want the same book read over and over? And what’s with all the questions they ask?
What about vocabulary words the child or class might not know?
How can illiterate or semiliterate parents read to
If we have only a small amount of time for read-aloud, how do we incorporate discussion?
What kind of read-alouds should we expect in preschool?
Is there a natural transition from picture book to novel?
At what age can you begin chapter books?
Could you read chapter books at preschool level?
At what age do you stop the picture books?
Are there pitfalls to avoid in choosing long novels?
What makes a good read-aloud?
When it’s obvious you’ve made a poor choice of a book, is it okay to abandon it and move on?
Do children have to follow along in a book as you read aloud?
Shouldn’t there be a test to see if the class is truly learning from read-aloud?

What is SSR and does it work?
Didn’t the national reading panel (NRP) condemn SSR or independent reading?
As an adult I don’t hate to read but I don’t do it very much. Maybe kids are the same way. Why?
When does SSR become effective?
What would cause SSR to fail?
What about summer-school reading programs?
Will SSR work in the home as well?
Won’t requiring children to read eventually turn them off?
What about those computerized “reading incentive” programs?
Are there any other negatives associated with these computerized programs?
My daughter is very much into magazines. Do they count?
How can reading a newspaper or magazine make you smarter?
How do I stop them from reading “junk” during SSR?
My son loves comic books—is that good or bad?
If adults are supposed to be role models, how much should teachers read?
How can we tell if SSR readers have actually read the book?
How did Oprah do it so successfully?
Librarians and parents as “Oprahs”

The print climate in the home, school, and library
The similarity between rodeo scores and reading scores
The amount of print in the home and reading scores
Print climate in three diverse california communities
The print climate in 20 massachusetts first-grade classes
What if you gave at-risk students free books at the book fair”
Would there be higher scores at the end of a summer?
How many books should be in the home library?
Does the disappearance of newspapers in the home have an impact?
If libraries are so important, why are they the first to get cut in hard times?
The “book-burning” library campaign that won
How Los Angeles tortured its school librarians
What do you do about the bad-grammar in books like the Junie B. Jones series,
to say nothing of her misbehavior?
How do I make my school library more successful on a limited budget?
Where doI get the library shelf space for face-out books? (rain gutter shelving)
Why are children so enchanted by ‘series books’? Shouldn’t they be reading the classics?
With the Internet and e-books, who needs a library?
What about e-books for the very young?
What is the role of the librarian in the coming digital world?
The school library that went all-digital
The “tree octopus” internet study
How accurate is the Internet’s Wikipedia versus a real encyclopedia?
Librarians as “crap detectors”

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