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Steps to Reading (Spanish)

21 minutes, 2 seconds

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Woman looks down at a colorful picture book, holding a smiling child in her lap. Spanish caption. Cómo hubiera sabido la manera de abrir un libro?

Offers parents practical advice on the importance of helping their children develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills from an early age. Describes numerous activities, and illustrates the steps needed to implement them. The activities, which include the use of songs, rhymes, discussions of daily life, and readings from an early age, may take place anywhere and in any language.

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Runtime: 21 minutes, 2 seconds

Topic: Counseling and Self-Help, Home and Family, Language Arts, Social Science
Subtopic: Child Development, Parenting, Social Issues, Spanish Language
Grade/Interest Level: PT/TT
Release Year: 2002
Producer/Distributor: Educational Activities
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Against a blue background, we see text that reads, “Active Learning. How Children Can Learn. The Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning.”

Group of children seated cross-legged on the floor, looking in the same direction. Caption. And continue to make literacy important to us.

Closeup of a child drawing with marker on a sheet of paper. Caption. Giving outlets for expressing their feelings.

Child smiles and looks out in a classroom setting. Caption. Narrator. Rapid physical growth marks this stage of development.

Title text reads, “How Children Can Learn Creating and Thinking Critically. The Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning," against a green and pink background.

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Woman is signing in front of a red screen with the word, brave, written in white next to her.

Woman signs in front of a storybook illustration of scruffy dog licking a boy while other animals look on. Story text appears on screen.

Woman leans over to help a child adjust a magnifying glass. Another woman and child stand by. Spanish caption. Una de las cosas más importantes.

Illustration of a red safari vehicle with 2 people in it approaching a gray tree. A yellow and black toucan and a colorful parrot sit on a branch of the tree looking at the approaching vehicle.