Fast Start: Getting Ready to Read

by Nancy Padak, Timothy V. Rasinski

Overview

An easy-to-use early intervention program that takes only ten minutes each night! Parents and children engage in repeated reading of poems, and then they complete a quick, skillbuilding activity. This ready-to-use, research-proven resource includes more than 100 poems and companion activities, 30 motivational stickers, plus reproducible family letters, certificates, bookmarks, and reading logs. Authors are sought-after presenters and have written many professional books, including 3-Minute Reading Assessments, Fast Start for Early Readers and The Principal's Essential Guide to Literacy in the Elementary School.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545031790
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy education. His major interests include working with children who find reading difficult, phonics and reading fluency instruction, and teacher development in literacy education. He has published over 100 articles and 10 books on various aspects of reading education. Dr. Rasinski is past editor of "The Reading Teacher "and is currently an editor for the "Journal of Literacy Research," He has served as president of the Colleg

Timothy Rasinski is a professor of Literacy Education at Kent State University and director of its award-winning reading clinic. He has written more than 200 articles and has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He is author of the best-selling books The Fluent Reader, The Megabook of Fluency, and the Daily Word Ladder series. His scholarly interests include reading fluency, word study, and striving readers. He taught for several years as an elementary and middle grade classroom and reading intervention teacher.