On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers

by van Kleeck, Anne; Stahl, Steven A.; Bauer, Eurydice B.

• ISBN13: 9780805839692
• ISBN10: 0805839690
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Brings together current research on adult book reading to children; chapter authors are eminent scholars from fields of reading and literacy, child language, speech pathology, and psychology, representing diverse perspectives.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I: Book Sharing in Families
Social-Emotional Requisites for Learning to Read	3	(13)
Adriana G. Bus
Learning Words From Books	16	(21)
Jeanne De Temple
Catherine E. Snow
Diversity in Adults' Styles of Reading Books to Children	37	(21)
Elaine Reese
Adell Cox
Diana Harte
Helena McAnally
Book Sharing With Preschoolers With Language Delays	58	(37)
Anne van Kleeck
Judith Vander Woude
Part II: Storybook Reading in the Classroom
A Framework for Examining Book Reading in Early Childhood Classrooms	95	(19)
David K. Dickinson
Allyssa McCabe
Louisa Anastasopoulos
Reading Aloud to Young Children as a Classroom Instructional Activity: Insights From Research and Practice	114	(26)
William H. Teale
The Nature of Storybook Reading in the Elementary School: Current Practices	140	(19)
Lesley Mandel Morrow
Rebecca Brittain
Taking Advantage of Read-Alouds to Help Children Make Sense of Decontextualized Language	159	(18)
Margaret G. McKeown
Isabel L. Beck
Dialogic Reading: A Shared Picture Book Reading Intervention for Preschoolers	177	(26)
Andrea A. Zevenbergen
Grover J. Whitehurst
Part III: Storybook Sharing as Cultural Practice
Storybook Reading in a Multicultural Society: Critical Perspectives	203	(28)
Jim Anderson
Ann Anderson
Jacqueline Lynch
Jon Shapiro
Reading, Homes, and Families: From Postmodern to Modern?	231	(22)
Victoria Carrington
Allan Luke
Storybook Reading and Young Bilingual Children: A Review of the Literature	253	(18)
Rosalinda B. Barrera
Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer
Part IV: Where Do We Go From Here?
Research on Book Sharing: Another Critical Look	271	(50)
Anne van Kleeck
Joint Reading as a Context: Explicating the Ways Context Is Created by Participants	321	(15)
A. D. Pellegrini
Lee Galda
Parent--Child Storybook Reading as a Complex Adaptive System: Or ``An Igloo Is a House for Bears''	336	(27)
David B. Yaden, Jr.
What Do We Expect Storybook Reading to Do? How Storybook Reading Impacts Word Recognition	363	(22)
Steven A. Stahl
Author Index	385	(14)
Subject Index	399