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Books as Bridges
Using Text to Connect Home and School Literacy and Learning
This remarkable book explores the many advantages of using books as bridges between home and school. It offers teachers strategies for using "touchstone" books to link school literacy conversations and activities with home literacy conversations and activities.
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This remarkable book explores the many advantages of using books as bridges between home and school. It offers teachers strategies for using "touchstone" books to link school literacy conversations and activities with home literacy conversations and activities.
Books as Bridges introduces a process for using key children's books to explore four guiding principles—predictable structures, nonfiction, comprehension, and imagination and language play. Each guiding principle is des...read more
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Establishing a Reading Habit
Chapter 3: Expanding General Knowledge Through Nonfiction
Chapter 4: Reading as Meaning-Making
Chapter 5: Fostering Imagination and Language Play
Concluding Thoughts
Professional Resources
Index