Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens

Preface

We should start by telling you what this book is not. This book is not about how children learn to read (though we do highlight some essentials on that subject). Nor is it about how to teach children to learn to read (though we hope it sparks some ideas). This is a book with technology coursing through every page, but it is not a book about how digital media and new technologies will rescue schools and save the world. Nor, however, is it a book about how those technologies are destroying any good chance of raising readers for the next generation.

So what is it? This book presents a third way, an approach to technology that is driven by the urgent need for all children and parents to have access to the same twenty-first-century literacy ...