Allison McDonald - Early Education, Literacy
Allison
McDonald is a local preschool
teacher and founder of the popular early education website
notimeforflashcards.com. Her creative lessons can be found on many sites such as MeMe
Tales, Raise a Reader, and PBS Parents. McDonald is
passionate about early childhood education and wants to help adults make
learning fun and meaningful for children. To that end she and co-author Amy Mascott
have written
Raising A Rock-Star Reader: 75 Quick Tips for Helping Your Child Develop a
Lifelong Love for Reading (2015). The book is a must-have guide for raising lifelong readers
and learners. Written for today�s time-crunched parents, it is filled with
easy-to-implement tips for creating a literate environment and fun, quick
activities for building children�s oral language and early reading and writing
skills. Just five minutes a day every day is all it takes to foster a child�s
love of reading and learning. The book is intended for parents of children from birth through Grade 3. Since her first book, Allison has co-authored with Amy Mascott
Setting the Stage for Rock Star Readers: Help Young Children Develop a Lifelong Love of Reading (2019) and self published
Everyday Preschool: Simple educational activities for busy families who never planned on homeschooling (2021).
