Setting the Stage for Rock-Star Readers: Help Young Children Develop a Lifelong Love of Reading

Features fun, developmentally appropriate activities that build oral language and early reading and writing skills.

Written for early childhood educators, this exciting new book from the authors of Raising a Rock-Star Reader features lots of fun, developmentally appropriate activities that build oral language and early reading and writing skills. Amy and Allison break down the whys and hows of early literacy into bite-size pieces to help busy teachers support our youngest learners’ individual development without pushing them too hard. A must-have resource for teachers in daycare, preschool, and kindergarten.

Amy Mascott is the creator of teachmama.com, where since 2008, she has shared tools and resources parents can use to become the best teachers they can be for their children. A reading specialist, writer, and literacy consultant, Amy’s work has been featured on dozens of online and print publications, including Scholastic Parents, PBS Parents, readwritethink.org, PBS Digital Studios, and more. A former high school English teacher, Amy often shares her expertise at local and national conferences and events. Married to an elementary school principal, Amy resides in the DC Metro with her three crazy-cool kids, a dog, two birds, and four fish.

Allison McDonald is a preschool teacher and the mom behind the popular early education website No Time For Flash Cards. While studying elementary education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Allison worked as a reading tutor and volunteered as a buddy reader for underprivileged children. When she paused her teaching career to start her own family, she started her website and filled it with hands-on activities to help parents and teachers. Allison began writing Raise a Reader blog on Scholastic Parents with Amy in 2012. Now that she is back in a classroom, she is eager to help even more children fall in love with books.