My Kid Can't Spell!: Understanding and Assisting Your Child's Literacy Development (Social History of Africa (Paperback)) - Softcover
Synopsis
This text is aimed at parents who want to play a more active role in their children's education. It offers practical guidance including: development guideposts to track children's literacy; tips for helping children progress through early spelling stages; a spelling text to determine children's level of spelling; strategies to help children visualize words; guidelines for identifying poor spelling instruction at school; and ways to recognize if a child has a spelling disability.
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About the Author
A former struggling speller himself, J. Richard Gentry, Ph.D., has authored three books and a video on the topic with Heinemann, including My Kid Can't Spell (1996), Teaching Kids to Spell (1992), Spel...Is a Four-Letter Word (1989), and Richard Gentry on Spelling (1992), as well as numerous articles in academic journals and textbooks for school-age children. A former elementary teacher and university professor, Gentry is a Heinemann Professional Development provider and has lectured and conducted workshops on literacy and spelling throughout the world. Visit http: //JRichardGentry.com for additional information about Richard Gentry and his work.
From the Back Cover
In My Kid Can't Spell!, spelling expert J. Richard Gentry offers timely and practical solutions to many of the problems parents face. The book is packed with tools, guidelines, and strategies that parents can use immediately: developmental guideposts to track children's literacy, tips for helping children progress through early spelling stages, a test to determine children's spelling level, strategies to help children visualize words, ways to identify poor spelling instruction at school, how to recognize if a child has a spelling disability and much more!
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Soft cover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Author signed. Elucidating guide to fostering literacy. Language arts, written & spoken requires mastery of ease of movment in a highly symbolic universe that has been made more complex by over-crowded classrooms, blossoming of "cute" vernacular terms capitalizing on odd-spellings & odd-pronunciations via television, computers, verbal-play capitalized by advertisers of the business world, prolifications of acronyms --- used to USA, how does one learn to write The United States of America with correctly placed capitalization? Then, today's remote learning practices takes its toll. Even adults unknowningly spell poorly now. This is a relaxing guide for home use for young & old in 90 pgs, 8 chapters: 1, Spelling Right from the Start; 2, Is Your Kindergartner or 1st Grader Developmentally on Track?; 3, How Well Does Your Child in 2nd Through 8th Grade Spell?; 4, Is Your Child on Grade Level?; 5, Can Your Child Visualize Words?; 6, How to Identify a Really Bad Spelling Lesson; 7, Spelling & Academic Disaster; and, 8, Supporting Your Child's Education, followed by 2 appendices: A: Spelling Rules; and, B: Spelling Strategies to Use at Home. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001078