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Raising a Rock-Star Reader: 75 Quick Tips for Helping Your Child Develop a Lifelong Love for Reading Paperback – November 10, 2015

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From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards comes a must-have parents’ guide for raising lifelong readers and learners. Written for today’s time-crunched parents, this book is filled with easy-to-implement tips for creating a literate environment and fun, quick activities for building children’s oral language and early reading and writing skills. Just five minutes a day every day is all it takes to foster a child’s love of reading and learning. For use with Grades K-5.
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"As an award-winning educational blogger and educator, I've been familiar with the incredible work Amy and Allison have done for years. However, not only as a teacher do I appreciate what they share, but as a mother of two children, I often find myself turning to their resources and advice to support my efforts at home and within the classroom. Raising a Rock-Star Reader is truly the book I have been waiting for: one that is filled with practical tips I can read today and try tomorrow. These ladies have packed this book with priceless step-by-step guides, easy-to-understand language, beautiful visuals, and creative tips to help each person feel the success they've been craving for each young reader to possess. This is not only a book you'll read cover to cover; it's one you'll find yourself referring to time and time again for those 'just-right' ideas that simply work!" --ERIN KLEINScholastic Top Teacher, Speaker, Author, Award-Winning Educator

"Raising a Rock-Star Reader by Amy Mascott and Allison McDonald is a must-have for every parent, grandparent, caregiver: all who love and nurture a child! This wonderfully warm yet truly brilliant book provides practical and accessible tips and exercises to actively engage all children in becoming lifelong readers and writers, right from the start. Wise, thoughtful, abundantly knowledgeable, and deeply accessible to us all, authors Mascott and McDonald expertly guide us to feel confident in creating a truly rich reading and writing experience for our child, from their very youngest age. Creative, practical, and accessible exercises and activities fill the pages of this indispensable parenting companion."
--PAM ALLYNLiteracy Advocate, Author and Founder of LitWorld

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Allison McDonald is a preschool teacher and the mom behind the popular early education website No Time For Flash Cards. While studying elementary education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Allison worked as a reading tutor and volunteered as a buddy reader for underprivileged children. When she paused her teaching career to start her own family, she started her website and filled it with hands-on activities to help parents and teachers. Allison began writing Raise a Reader blog on Scholastic Parents with Amy in 2012. Now that she is back in a classroom, she is eager to help even more children fall in love with books.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching (November 10, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0545806178
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0545806176
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 - 10 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Kindergarten - 5
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 7.39 x 0.33 inches
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    Amy Mascott is the creator of teachmama.com, where, since 2008, she has helped families cultivate meaningful connections and build bridges between home and school. With 1200+ posts and 400+ free downloadable resources, teachmama.com reaches over 5 million viewers each month due to a wide reach across Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

    A Reading Specialist, writer, speaker, and influencer, Amy’s reflections on literacy and parenting have been featured on dozens of online and print publications, including Scholastic Instructor, Scholastic Parents, PBS Parents, PBS Digital Studios, readwritethink.org, Huffington Post, HMH’s The Teacher’s Corner and more. For years, she co-anchored the Scholastic Parents Raise A Reader blog with her pal Allison McDonald of No Time for Flashcards, and together they have a written two books about reading, both published by Scholastic: Raising a Rock-Star Reader: 75 Quick Tips for Helping Your Child Develop A Lifelong Love of Reading (Scholastic, 2016) and Setting the Stage for Rock-Star Readers: Helping Young Children Develop A Lifelong Love of Reading (Scholastic, 2019).

    Amy is just as active offline as she is online. You can find her either cheering for her kids on the soccer sidelines, biting her nails during swim and dive meets, or buzzing around the ‘hood as a cheer mom. Married to an elementary school principal, Amy resides in the DC Metro with her crazy-cool 17, 15, and 13-year-old, a dog, and way too many books.

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    Allison McDonald B.A, B.Ed, M.S. is a preschool teacher, blogger, speaker, and author. She founded her early education website, No Time For Flash Cards, in 2008 when she stepped out of the classroom to raise her children. She started writing about early education because she missed teaching and wanted to share her knowledge with other parents and teachers. She happily returned to the preschool classroom in 2014.

    In addition to her website, she has written regularly for Scholastic Parents on their Raise A Reader blog and for PBS Parents. Helping parents help their children learn is one of her true passions. She lives in a yellow farmhouse full of books on an island outside of Seattle with her husband and two children.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tons of ways to foster a love of the written word and get kids excited about ...
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Every parent should have a copy of this book. Tons of ways to foster a love of the written word and get kids excited about reading! Having a book parade (an idea in this book) was so wonderfully fun for my children. They got their friends involved and set up a book exchange among their friends! Really an easy read and has some great ideas even for struggling readers!
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Mattie
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Great tips and activities
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Heather C. Kauffman
5.0 out of 5 stars There are so many easy and do-able activities in this book
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2015
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Thank you!!! What a practical book for any parent, caregiver or teacher who works with young children. There are so many easy and do-able activities in this book. Nothing requires too much effort. You can pick an activity that matches your child's personality or even their mood on a particular day. A must-have book!
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Rebecca Sueppel
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
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I like the other book geared towards teachers better by a faction (setting the stage for rockstar readers), but great things to pass on to parents.
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Carolyn Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful
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Great tips and information. I checked this out of my local library and then had to have a copy for myself!
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AussieChick
1.0 out of 5 stars I ordered 2 books and only receivved one. Not happy!
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I ordered 2 books and only receivved one. Not happy! What a pain. I have to try to get the other book now..... Ugh .......
Having said that. The book is good. I have always been a reader to my children, mut not so much my children to their children. I think the book has some really good ideas, even about how to speak to your children. Never talk in "baby" talk. Also reading games to play. So basically it is a lot of involvement from the parent to begin with, but I think it is worth it. I bought the book for 3 children ages one and a half, 3 and 5. There is something in it for all of them and older.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars The book is so comprehensive and useful! The activities and ideas are so creative yet practical too!
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2015
Raising a Rock Star Reader is going to revolutionize our afternoons now because it will be so easy to add these simple tips and activities into our busy schedule! Although I am creative and am a former elementary school teacher, somedays I just want to pull out a book and have someone else come up with the ideas for me!

Here are a few things that I love about Raising a Rock Star Reader...

- Allie and Amy explain reading and their reading strategies using easy to understand language... not professional jargon!
- All of the activities are simple and don't require very many materials.
- The book is thin, quick to read, and the table of contents is so easy to use!
- Allie and Amy included book lists for different ages of kids!!! I love book lists because I am always looking to add new awesome books to our family library that are recommended by people I respect and admire!
- The back of the book includes some literacy apps and websites to check out! I think it is hard to sift through all of the different apps out there, so love that Allie and Amy are sharing their favorite resources with us!
- The book is so comprehensive and useful! The activities and ideas are so creative yet practical too! I love that there are 75 of them (and probably even more). You don't have to be a professional educator to be able to figure them out!
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Jody Fairweather
4.0 out of 5 stars Preschool help
Reviewed in Canada on November 28, 2018
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Great book if you are looking to learn how to raise a great reader from preschool. Not for teaching reading.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2018
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This book was not suitable for over 5 years. Skills in this book are aimed at much younger children.
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