Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers . Roots of Reading

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Fred Rogers hosts the first program in this Reading Rockets series. He has been a friend of young children since his show first aired on PBS in 1969.



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The First and Best Teacher
Children learn to speak and walk by instinct. But did you know reading is different? Reading needs to be taught. And a child's first and best teacher is a parent. "If you look at youngsters who come into first grade who can read fairly well, watch what their parents do," says G. Reid Lyon of the National Institutes of Health. "Parents can be extraordinarily good teachers."
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The single most
important thing a parent can do to help a child learn to read is to transmit a love of reading. - Phyllis
Hunter, National Fellow of the Institute of Learning

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