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Learning

Dad’s Club: Make Reading Fun

“Daddy! Read me a story!” he says while you tuck him between the sheets. And before you know it, he’s wrapped in your arms while you turn the pages together, giggling at the funny duck in his favorite book.

Attachments:

Getting in Tune with Baby

I Know This Word

References:

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Frosch, C. A., Cox, M. J., & Goldman, B. D. (2001). Infant-parent attachment and parental and child behavior during parent-toddler storybook interaction. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 47(4), 445-474.

Sulzby, E., & Teale, W. (1991). Emergent literacy. In R. Barr, M. L. Kamil, P. B. Mosenthal & P. D. Pearson (Eds.), Handbook of reading research (Vol. 2, pp. 727-757). New York: Longman.

Teale, W. H. (1987). Emergent literacy: Reading and writing development in early childhood. In E. Readance & R. S. Baldwin (Eds.), Thirty-sixth yearbook of the national reading conference (pp. 45-74). Rochester, NY: National Reading Council.

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