Sharing Books and Stories

The role of parent-child and teacher-child shared story telling and storybook reading is a key vehicle for supporting children's development of emergent literacy and early language skills. This highly usable and practical book brings the advantages of sharing books and stories to educational and clinical settings, effectively demonstrating how it may be used to support:

• print knowledge
• phonological awareness
• vocabulary
• inferential language abilities
• grammatical and narrative skills

With contributions from notable scholars who actively conduct research in the areas of education, developmental psychology, speech language pathology, reading, and early literacy, this unique resource synthesizes and applies current theory and research on uses of sharing books and stories in educational and intervention contexts.

Review

• Jane Oates, SLT, Bulletin, Journal of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, (2008):
  ""...Practical and highly usable.... I recommend van Kleeck's own explicit strategy for developing inferencing...."

  Anne van Kleeck

  Details:

  356 pages, Illustrated (B/W), Softcover, 6 x 9"

  ISBN13: 978-1-59756-091-7

  
  Release date: 11/01/2006