Accelerating Language Skills and Content Knowledge Through Shared Book Reading

Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola, Jorge E. Gonzalez, Deborah C. Simmons, Leslie Simmons (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2015
Brookes Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-1-59857-257-5 (ISBN)

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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 learners 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!

This accessible textbook prepares early childhood educators to teach vocabulary-rich science and social studies lessons through shared book reading. Presents a complete framework for boosting language skills and content knowledge.

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.

Dr. Pollard-Durodola is a professor in the Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education Department of the School of Education at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Her scholarship attends to the prevention/intervention of language and literacy difficulties (Spanish/English) among students at risk of academic difficulties. Central to her scholarship is developing intervention curricula that build on validated instructional design principles, evaluating their impact on the language and reading development of struggling readers, and investigating how to improve the quality of language/literacy practices of teachers and parents of English learners. She is interested in bridging research and practice by examining the feasibility/usability of research-based practices. She has published in peerreviewed journals such as Exceptional Children; Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness; The Elementary School Journal; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; and Bilingual Research Journal. 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.

Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 254 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-59857-257-1 / 1598572571
ISBN-13	978-1-59857-257-5 / 9781598572575
Zustand	Neuware