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  INDEX

  Page references followed by fig indicate an illustrated figure.

  A

  Academic content knowledge: “can’t kids just be kids” argument against; on creation of the universe and origins of humankind; developmentally appropriate; fascination many children have for old and dead subjects; of hi-lo books; importance of acquiring prekindergarten; keeping it simple summary on increasing; parental strategies to increase; playing catch-up for; time spent in first and third grade classrooms by subject. See also Knowledge

  Academic content knowledge strategies: encouraging child’s independent study; playing board games; reading with your child; talking to your child about subjects

  Academic reading: content knowledge gathered from; pleasure reading versus

  Accelerated Reader software

  Active listening

  Adam, N.

  Aesop’s fable on mother crab and child

  Afternoon naps

  Allianz, A.

  Alliteration game

  Alphabet: confusable letters in the; distinctive letters in the; English language; exploiting “letters in the wild” of the; learning letter-to-sound mappings of letters of the; learning to hear speech sounds of; Mann’s description of skeleton-shaped letters of the; phonics instruction on letter-sound pairs of the; print referencing letters of the; rules of thumb for American kindergarten skills on; as written visual symbols signifying sound

  Ambrose, St. (silent reader statue)

  American Academy of Pediatrics

  American Girl (magazine)

  American Time Use Survey

  Apples and Bananas game

  Apples to Apples Junior (board game)

  Arnold, N.

  Aro, M.

  Attention: architecture of the mind and; digital devices and inability to sustain; multitasking impact on

  Attitudes. See Reading attitudes

  Authors (card game)

  B

  Background knowledge: comprehension and importance of acquiring; comprehension based on knowing genre conventions; comprehension dependent on having the relevant; experiment on verbal skill and; Googling information as no substitution for; playing catch-up for; prior knowledge as; reading as best way to acquire broad; required to understand lesson on first European colonists; situation model created through; when comprehension is hurt by lack of

  Balanced literacy instruction: description of; outcomes of; reading activities used during

  Bargaining for reading

  Birthday book presents

  Birthday cake urban myth

  Bohn, R.

  Book It! program (Pizza Hut)

  Bookcase display: best design and location of; putting books at child’s eye level

  Books: choosing; display of; electronic (e-books); encouraging reading by providing easy access to; given as birthday gifts; hi-lo; learning vocabulary from picture; maximizing your child’s accessibility to; pleasure reading “fun,”

  Brain: architecture of the mind and; bregma point of the; how multitasking affects the; research on meaningful word response by the

  Bregma point

  Bridge to Terabithia

  C

  “Can’t kids just be kids” argument

  Carr, N.

  Causal connections

  Charlotte’s Web

  Children: avoid pressuring them to read; dyslexia and; focused on learning instead of failure; getting them to read; learning letter-to-sound mappings; mirror the type of talk they hear; parents’ attitude toward reading ability of; practical literacy activities to do with your; preventing reading motivation backslide in; reading attitudes of; reading motivation of; teaching them independent play; testing ability to hear individual speech sounds; who have the gift of curiosity. See also Self-concept; specific age-group or grade level; Teenagers

  Child’s questions: barriers to answering; comprehension strategy of generating; discomforting; knowledge building by answering; strategies for cultivating; when choosing a book to read

  Choosing books: allowing classroom practice of; for classroom pleasure reading; displaying bookcases for ease of; electronic (e-books) versus print books; four factors of how a child will go about; keeping it simple summary for; making reading the most attractive choice; questions to consider when; resources on

  Classroom activities: guided reading; independent reading; interactive writing; items to remember for; modeled writing; shared reading; shared writing

  Classroom activity tips: feedback matters; include phonics instruction as part of; students can focus on only one new thing at a time; you learn more from doing than watching

  Classroom libraries: allowing students to choose books from; how to set up a great; silent pleasure reading facilitated by

  Classrooms: academic versus pleasure reading in; creating great reading; how they can enhance reading attitudes; reading instruction activities for; reading rewards in; tips for effective reading activities used in. See also Kindergarten through second-grade classrooms; Third-grade classrooms

  Clear Pictures (Price)

  Cleary, Beverly

  Click (magazine)

  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

  Collins, B.

  Common Core State Standards

  Complex texts: caution against overdoing reading comprehension instruction for; comparing decoding of complex movie plots and; digital literacy of; furniture assembly strategy instructions; historic letter from Einstein to President Roosevelt on atomic bombs; instruction on reading comprehension strategies for; keeping it simple summary to promote comprehension of; new demands for working with; noticing failed comprehension of; parental strategies for promoting comprehension of; three factors that determine comprehension of

  Compound words

  Comprehension. See Reading comprehension

  Comprehension monitoring

  Computer games: average daily word consumption from; wishes vs. reality in teenagers’ leisure time spent on

  Computers: average daily word consumption from; limited number of activities by teens on

  Concentration: architecture of the mind and ability for; digital devices and lo
ss of; multitasking impact on

  Confusable letters

  Content knowledge. See Academic content knowledge

  Context-ambiguity resolution

  Cooperative learning

  Correlations: description and function of; reading test and cultural literacy test scores

  Covich, J.

  CSI (TV show)

  “Cultural literacy” knowledge

  Curiosity: barriers to questions driven by child’s; knowledge building role of

  Curious George

  D

  Dall-Orto, G.

  Decoding: comparing complex movie plots and complex text; comparing reading comprehension to; confusable letters; as foundation for reading; learning letter-to-sound mappings; link between reading self-concept and ability for; reading via spelling as type of; recognizing written visual symbols that signify sounds; reminding child that reading is more than just; role of sound in; visual representation of a sentence; visual task in learning to read

  Decoding instruction: balanced literacy approach to; digital technologies used for; home strategies to support; keeping it simple summary on; kindergarten classroom activities for; phonics-based; when to be concerned about your child’s; “Which theory is right?” on; whole-word

  Decoding preparation: helping your child hear speech sounds; keeping it simply summary of; learning letters; when to begin reading instruction as part of

  Despicable Me (film)

  “Developmentally appropriateness,”

  Dialogic reading techniques

  Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Kinney)

  Dickens, Charles

  Digital age knowledge: average daily word consumption by media; multiple sources of; reading volume to increase

  Digital displacements

  Digital literacy: description of; evaluating common digital conventions; evaluating information aspect of; of the Northwest Tree Octopus website

  Digital technologies: application of the displacement hypothesis on; example of feature-rich but confusing remote; functional equivalence hypothesis on print media replaced by; how to best implement; negative impact on pleasure reading by; personalized instruction using; providing omnipresent entertainment. See also Electronic books (e-books); Internet; Social networking