1st Grade Reading Success

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We are reading excerpts from our recently published book: Success Stories in a Failing School: Teachers Living under the Shadow of NCLB. Pushing back against the label “failed”, eleven elementary school teachers have stepped out of the classroom to tell their stories. Their stories reveal how today’s teachers labor to make a difference in urban school struggling under the mandates of the No Child Left Behind legislation. Teachers living under the shadow of “NO Child Left Behind”.

Studies show nearly two-thirds of low-income families own no books for their children, yet book ownership is one of the strongest predictors of future reading success. To prevent the resulting achievement gap, Sheltering Arms Early Education & Family Centers launches the fourth year of Operation storybook. Operation storybook provides 2300 children—most from low-income working families–with 12 new books for their home libraries over the next year. Early learning and parent education programs bring these books alive for Sheltering Arms children and their families.

For every parent who wants the very best for their children, there is one gift designed to provide higher self-confidence, better academic results and life-long achievement–early learning skills. Numerous infant studies have proven that early readers have more confidence, higher self-esteem and generally perform better in school and later in life. According to a national panel of reading specialists and educators, most of the nation’s reading problems could be eliminated if children began reading at an earlier age. Dr. Robert C. Titzer is an expert infant researcher who has taught tens of thousands of babies and toddlers worldwide to read for nearly twenty years. He says the current practice of starting to teach reading skills in Kindergarten is too late. “A child has only one natural window for language, from 3 months to age 5. The earlier a child is taught to read, the better they will read and the more likely they will enjoy it…” Produced for Your Baby Can Read