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The Gift of Reading: A Guide for Educators and Parents
The Gift of Reading A Guide for Educators and Parents Author:David Bouchard, Wendy K. Sutton The Gift of Reading A Guide for Educators and Parents David Bouchard withWendy Sutton Resource Links' The Year's Best 2002 How can we inspire a life-long love of reading in all children? Promoting literacy should be our focus from before our children are born until they leave secondary school. Teaching children to read and to love reading i... more »s the shared responsibility of every teacher, every administrator and every parent. Together, David Bouchard and Wendy Sutton explore how we can turn our homes and our schools into environments rich in literature and how we can model the love of reading for our children and our students. This is a book for every adult who has contact with children, not just every parent, teacher and principal, but every grandparent, every aunt and uncle, every neighbour, every family friend, every school custodian and school secretary, every district administrator. It is a book that challenges and inspires. David Bouchard has been a tireless champion of literacy for many years. A non-reader until adulthood, he fell in love with children's books one day when he was asked to read a chapter of a novel aloud to an eighth-grade class. He has now retired from his long career as a teacher and school-based administrator to devote his time to writing and for promoting reading. He has won many awards for his writing for children. Wendy Sutton, professor emerita, taught both elementary and secondary school before joining the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. A well-respected presenter at conferences in Canada, the US and Great Britain, Wendy Sutton chaired many major committees as a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and contributed regularly to language arts journals. Still active at the university, she is now retired and serves as a language arts/children's literature consultant.« less