Reading storybooks with young children is one of the most important things an adult can do to support early language and literacy skills. What other fun, engaging interaction can teach children so many critical concepts - including print awareness, vocabulary, and social and conversational skill - all at once?
Step-by-step strategies help educators engage, respond to, and teach children during storybook reading - information they can share with parents to continue the learning at home. Readers will discover how to:
1. Create a fun and enriching reading atmosphere
2. Choose appropriate books, read with expression, and actively engage children
3. Use book reading to help children develop in semantics, phonology, syntax, morphology, and pragmatics
4. Promote children's print awareness and phonological awareness
5. Work with children who have developmental delays and behavior challenges
6. Motivate reluctant readers
7. Work effectively with individual children and small groups
8. Support parents in developing their children's language and literacy development
All of these suggested strategies can be adapted for use with any storybook, and many are vividly illustrated with sample scripts that educators can use to guide their own interactions with children. With the helpful appendices, teachers will have short summaries of strategies for easy reference, a "reading log" to give to parents, answers to parents' frequently asked questions about reading at home, and a glossary of key terms.
Loaded with ready-to-use ideas, this guidebook has everything early childhood educators need to turn the fun of shared reading into a powerful learning experience.
Table of Contents:
About the Authors
Foreword
Carol Vukelich
Introduction:
1. Research and Theoretical Background
2. How Effective Shared Reading Looks and Sounds
3. Understanding the Building Blocks of Language Development
4. Using Shared Reading to Develop Children's Language Skills
5. Understanding Important Foundation Skills for Emergent Literacy
6. Using Shared Reading to Develop Children's Emergent Literacy Skills
7. Suggestions and Strategies for Reluctant Readers
8. Shared Reading for Children with Special Needs
9. Promoting Shared Reading in the Home Environment
10. Resources and Tips for Selecting Storybooks
References
Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions About Shared Reading
Appendix B: General Reading Strategies
Glossary
Credits
Index
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