On Reading Books to Children Parents and Teachers [Hardcover]

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachersbrings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children. The authors, drawn from around the world, are key researchers and eminent scholars from the fields of reading and literacy, child language, speech pathology, and psychology, representing multiple perspectives within these disciplines.

Chapters on the effects and limitations of book sharing are integrated with chapters discussing promising programs on storybook research. The reality of reading to children is more complex than it appears on the surface. The authors discuss some effects of and suggestions for reading to children that have emerged from the research. The ideas set forth in this volume will stimulate new lines of research on the effects of storybook reading, as well as refinements of current methods, yielding findings that enrich our understanding of this important arena of literacy development.
Contents: A. van Kleeck, S.A. Stahl,Preface. Part I:Book Sharing in Families.A.G. Bus,Social-Emotional Requisites for Learning to Read. J. De Temple, C.E. Snow,Learning Words From Books. E. Reese, A. Cox, D. Harte, H. McAnally,Diversity in Adults' Styles of Reading Books to Children. A. van Kleeck, J. Vander Woude,Book Sharing With Preschoolers With Language Delays. Part II:Storybook Reading in the Classroom.D.K. Dickinson, A. McCabe, L. Anastasopoulos,A Framework for Examining Book Reading in Early Childhood Classrooms. W.H. Teale,Reading Aloud to Young Children as a Classroom Instructional Activity: Insights From Research and Practice. L.M. Morrow, R. Brittain,The Nature of Storybook Reading in the Elementary School: Current Practices. M.G. McKeown, I.L. Beck,Taking Advantage of Read-Alouds to Help Children Make Sense of Decontextualizlãô