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Welcome, and thank you for visiting our site! To access our resources, please see the below posts, where you will find: links to websites about reading to your child, a rating of each website, and a brief description of what the site contains. We hope this information will be helpful to you, in making reading to your child a more fulfilling experience for both you and your child!
(Note: All our web links have been included on this website because they relate to Child Development in that: reading to children improves their literacy skills, and helps foster a love for reading, and learning to read is an important part of a child's cognitive development.)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Developmental Considerations in Selecting Books for Children

http://www.nwrel.org/learns/pastfeature/feature299.html
Rating: 13
Site Summary: "At Bank Street College of Education, the Children's Book Committee annually reviews approximately three thousand books to select the six hundred or so that we believe are the best books published for children that year. In selecting books, we give high priority to a book' s appropriateness to a child's stage of emotional, social, and cognitive development. One word of caution: individual children's development is highly variable. Our guidelines are just guidelines. Know the children you're working with, their fears, wonders, and interests, and adjust your selections accordingly."
We chose this site because it gives parents specific and developmentally appropriate book suggestions (including ones to help children address different childhood issues) for their preschool and elementary age children.

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