Susan Voorhees

Parents Make the Difference (eBook, PDF)

Nourishing Literacy Development through Shared Book Reading

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reading to your children has been recommended to parents of young children for decades by literacy experts. The act of shared book reading can promote academic, language, and literacy development; this is grounded in research. Not all shared book reading, however, is equally effective. In Parents Make the Difference: Nourishing Literacy Development through Shared book Reading, Susan Voorhees guides parents to conduct enjoyable and productive book reading interactions with their young children. Parents will be informed about language and literacy learning in the early years and how to best engage in before, during, and after shared book reading activities. While this book was written as an invitation to parents, teachers will also find it to be informative in guiding them to establish a supportive climate for sound, developmentally appropriate literacy teaching practices. It is the responsibility of all shareholders to nourish the literacy development of young children as they naturally move toward learning to read and become lovers of reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216313076
• Artikelnr.: 74844906

Autorenporträt

Susan C. Voorhees (Ed.D. Hofstra University) is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at Dowling College, Long Island, NY. She is enjoying her thirtieth year as an educator, and her interest is promoting the development of children's literacy in the early years in order to foster later academic success.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
An Introduction to a Workshop: It's the Parents Who Make the Difference!
Part One: Building Parents' Knowledge about Language, Learning, and Reading
Children Learning Their First Words Is NOT MagicTeaching Children to Read
Is as Natural as Learning to Ride a BikeCan Our Brains Really Attend to Two
Tasks at the Same Time?Part Two: Parents as Mediators: Making Effective
Instructional Decisions
If She Doesn't Like Carrots, Then Don't Keep Feeding Them to Her!A Recipe
for Shared Book Reading Ensures a Delicious OutcomePREP Is the First
Step!ENGAGE: Be a Lore, Not a Bore!CONCLUDE: Don't Just Go to Sleep-Savor
the Moment!Final Thoughts
From the Womb to the Kindergarten Classroom!Appendix A: A Wondrous World in
My Head
Appendix B: Favorite Shared Book Reading List to Support Your Children's
Literacy
References