Bonus Episode: How Parents Can Lay the Foundation for Literacy Success with Maya Smart
Did you know that babies less than a day old can parse out different vowel sounds? Or that language learning starts early while a baby is in utero, by about 35 weeks’ gestation, and the formation of synapses involved in language learning peaks during the first 6 months after birth? Me neither, until I read Maya Smart’s READING FOR OUR LIVES: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six, a step-by-step guide for building literacy in a child’s early years. Maya is here today to discuss key strategies that parents should
employ early (and often), conventional reading tools and instruction focuses on teachers and the
school years, essential lessons parents can – and should – give their children, and more…
About Maya
Maya Payne Smart helps parents nurture, teach, and advocate for children on the road to reading. Her book, Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six, is forthcoming from Avery/Penguin Random House. Her website, MayaSmart.com, publishes new book lists, literacy activities, and other free family resources weekly to help parents play their dual roles as first teachers and educational advocates. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s in social studies with honors from Harvard University. She serves as affiliated faculty in Educational Policy and Leadership in the College of Education at Marquette University.
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