Preparing Children for Reading Success

Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers

Julia Irwin, Dina Moore (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

126 Seiten

2014
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-8108-9319-1 (ISBN)

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Preparing Children for Reading Success: Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers will not only familiarize anyone who reads to young children with the essentials of promoting early and emerging literacy, but also contains more than 25 ready-to-go activities that can be immediately used to foster this critical skill development. Following a basic overview of preliteracy skills that prepare children for reading success, the book contains field-tested, proven activities that promote success in each of the following skill sets:
·Alphabet knowledge
·Print concepts
·Book handling skills
·Phonological sensitivity
·Expressive vocabulary

Each of the activities is described in detail and linked to a popular children’s book. This is a must-have how-to for anyone interested in promoting emerging literacy.

Julia Irwin is a Senior Research Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT, a not-for-profit research institution with a focus on communication, language and reading. Dr. Irwin is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. Dina Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University and a Research Affiliate of Haskins Laboratories. Her research examines individual differences in reading skill and the cognitive factors that underlie these differences

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: The Importance of Reading
Chapter 2: The Social-Emotional Benefits of Reading
Chapter 3: Alphabet Knowledge
Chapter 4: Book Handling Skills and Concepts about Print
Chapter 5: Phonological Awareness
Chapter 6: Vocabulary
Chapter 7: Decontextualized Language
Chapter 8: Writing

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About the Author

Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 246 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	0-8108-9319-3 / 0810893193
ISBN-13	978-0-8108-9319-1 / 9780810893191
Zustand	Neuware