Accelerating Language Skills and Content Knowledge Through Shared Book Reading - Softcover

Pollard-Durodola Ed.D., Sharolyn; Simmons Ph.D., Deborah; Gonzalez Ph.D., Jorge; Simmons Ph.D., Leslie

9781598572575: Accelerating Language Skills and Content Knowledge Through Shared Book Reading

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598572571 ISBN 13: 9781598572575

Publisher: Brookes Publishing, 2015

Students in early childhood settings don't always get the benefits of shared book reading—a strategy proven to boost language skills and content knowledge. Prepare the next generation of teachers to make the most of shared reading with this accessible textbook, a complete guide to building vocabulary-rich science and social studies lessons and discussions around storybooks and informational texts. Field-tested with children in high-poverty school settings, this instructional approach is valuable for any young learner at risk for comprehension difficulties.

This concise book presents the authors' proven, empirically based "Project WORLD" (Words of Oral Reading and Language Development) framework for integrating shared book reading into the classroom. Offering both big-picture curriculum design principles and specific instructional strategies, this text gives teachers the know-how they need to accelerate language skills, vocabulary development, and high-priority science and social studies content knowledge for all young children.

Ideal for preservice teacher education courses and in-service professional development!

GET TEACHERS READY TO:

Use the most effective shared book reading and vocabulary practices
Teach new vocabulary while introducing key science and social studies concepts
Align vocabulary instruction with content standards and objectives
Stimulate and expand children's oral language abilities via interactive book discussions
Implement a framework tested in collaboration with Head Start and preschool teachers
Choose their own books and vocabulary words to teach
Design lesson plans that get results
Build a strong foundation for children's future success in science and social studies
Advance learning with proven teaching techniques, such as multiple exposures to words and connected concepts and strategies
Successfully teach both English language learners and native English speakers

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: A step-by-step Shared Book Reading Instructional Unit Planner, sample vocabulary words with child-friendly definitions, real-life classroom vignettes with embedded instructional techniques and suggestions, examples of appropriate storybooks and informational texts paired by science or social studies themes, and tools to support teachers' content vocabulary instruction.

See how this product helps strengthen Head Start program quality and school readiness.

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About the Author:

Coordinator of Education Outreach, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Academic and Reading Skills, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin, Suite 2443, Houston, TX 77030. Dr. Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola coordinates two projects in the 5-year program study, “Oracy/Literacy Development in Spanish-Speaking Students,” funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Institute of Education Sciences. For Project III, she conducts interrater reliability checks across sites, coordinates classroom observations of students in kindergarten through second grade, and provides training to classroom observers. For Project V, she assists in the development of a supplemental, intensive proactive Spanish curriculum and intervention program and in the ongoing training and professional development for intervention implementers.

Susan B. Neuman, Ed.D., is a professor in educational studies specializing in early literacy development. Previously, she directed the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement. Her research and teaching interests include early childhood policy, curriculum, and early reading instruction from prekindergarten to Grade 3. In her role as Assistant Secretary, she established the Reading First program and the Early Reading First program and was responsible for the implementation of all activities in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Act.

Review:

“Provide[s] explicit guidance on how to craft high-quality book readings with children that will elevate their language and literacy skills. This book fills an important gap in the early-childhood field!” (Laura Justice, Ph.D.)

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