title: Secrets to Reading Success: From the Early Years to First Grade
author:  Renee F Mizrahi MSED 
description: I wrote this book to give parents of preschoolersinformation that is <b>based on current research in <strong>easy-to-understand</strong> language. You'll find practical ideas and activities to help enhance your young child's reading ability thatwill fit intowhat for most new parents is a busylifestyle, such as how to use television to increase reading comprehension and how to use text messaging to introduce your child to print.There are <strong>summaries at the end of each chapter</strong> that you can use to skim for informationwhen youdon't have time to read the entire chapter. There is an <strong>extensive index</strong> that will help you find specific information quickly. There are literacy accomplishment <strong>checklists that will give you realistic expectations</strong> for eachstage between birth and first grade. There are <strong>lists of resources</strong> geared especially to preschoolers and beautiful <strong>color photos that illustrate the information</strong></b><strong> contained within the book. This book will take the mystery out of literacy acquisition for new parents, grandparents and early childhood educators or anyone who wants to enrich a young child's literacy experience.
  						    	
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  It was all downhill after seventh grade. That was the year my English teacher,
  Nancy Helgath, somehow made me cool when she encouraged me to read Edgar Allan
  Poe to my classmates at lunch. They sat goggle-eyed as I read “The Pit and the
  Pendulum,” “Berenice,” and “The Raven.” But I had eyes for only one: the tall,
  smart girl I had a crush on—and was terrified of—Kristi Barnes.
  
  
  
  
  
  I soon started my first novel. I would go on to become an English teacher and
  a writer, and marry Kristi Barnes.
  
  
  
  
  
  This book wouldn’t have happened without my mother—for more than the obvious
  reason. I started reading late, and when I did, I hated it. This wasn’t helped
  by a teacher who shouted “Choppy sentences!” at me for my inability to read
  aloud smoothly in the first grade. My mom took me out of school for a year to
  home school me (insert social awkwardness joke here), and her dedication and
  patience gave me a love for reading.
  
  
  
  
  
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