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Rohloff, Rebecca; May, Laura – Journal of Children's Literature, 2017
Teachers report using trade books in the science classroom to humanize the subject matter, appeal to student interests, and aid with understanding (Fang, 2014). Trade books are deemed easier to read aloud and more appealing to younger readers, while some teachers also believe that trade books add an emotive element to the field of science (Donovan…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Interests
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Tompkins, Virginia; Bengochea, Alain; Nicol, Susanna; Justice, Laura M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
Researchers have consistently found a link between the quality of early parent-child book-reading interactions and children's language skill. Two aspects of quality (level of abstraction and utterance function) were examined simultaneously in the current study to further refine our understanding of how parents' talk during shared reading predicts…
Descriptors: Inferences, Mothers, Preschool Children, Reading Aloud to Others
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Worthington, Becca – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2017
Children's librarians are often required to be performers. The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to determine the degree to which the Masters of Library Science (MLS) programs accredited by the American Library Association currently incorporate theatrical and performance-based training. A quantitative content analysis was conducted…
Descriptors: Libraries, Childrens Literature, Library Education, Masters Programs
Deanne R. Pérez-Granados; Lynne C. Huffman – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
The Technology, Literacy, and Caring project was a longitudinal, intervention evaluation study assessing the degree to which two home-based interventions promoted positive parent--child book-sharing interactions, child development, and infant-toddler emergent literacy skills for low socioeconomic status, Latino families. Data collection for the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Hispanic Americans, Infants, Toddlers
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Scott, Amy; van Bysterveldt, Anne; McNeill, Brigid – Infants and Young Children, 2016
This study determined the effectiveness of an experimental emergent literacy intervention, targeting teenage mothers attending an educational facility. Using a pretest/posttest research design, 27 participants completed a 7­-week intervention based in the classroom, targeting a range of emergent literacy skills that they could utilize when reading…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Adolescents
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Meng, Christine – Infant and Child Development, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to understand the reciprocal, bidirectional longitudinal relation between joint book reading and English receptive vocabulary. To address the research goals, a nationally representative sample of Head Start children, the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (2003 cohort), was used for analysis. The…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading, English, Language Skills
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Caravolas, Markéta – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Word and pseudoword reading are related abilities fundamental to reading development in alphabetic orthographies. They are respectively assumed to index children's orthographic representations of words, which are in turn acquired through the underlying "self-teaching mechanism" of alphabetic pseudoword decoding. Little is known about…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
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Pergams, Oliver R. W.; Jake-Matthews, Charmaine E.; Mohanty, Liza M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
Reading aloud (RA) is a learning strategy commonly used to help younger students develop language comprehension skills and in adult literacy and language courses to help students master the pronunciation of words, grammar, and intonation. However, we know of no studies to date that investigate the possible benefits of RA at the college or…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Aloud to Others, Learning Experience, College Science
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Haese, Adrie; Costandius, Elmarie; Oostendorp, Marcelyn – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2018
There exists an abundance of literature on the use of wordless picturebooks in literacy development, yet very little research exists on their use in the South African context. South Africa is facing what researchers have referred to as a 'national crisis of reading'. Only 5 per cent of parents read with their children, as a result, many children…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2018
This document begins by providing four tips parents and care takers can use to supporting childrens' reading skills at home: (1) Have conversations before, during, and after reading together; (2) Help children learn how to break sentences into words and words into syllables; (3) Help children sound out words smoothly; and (4) Model reading…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Young Children, Family Environment, Parent Role
Wasik, Barbara A.; Hindman, Annemarie H. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Preschool teachers from a high-poverty, urban school district were trained to implement Story Talk, a book reading intervention designed to increase children's vocabulary and language development using supportive materials and strategic individualized coaching. Thirty-five teachers were randomly assigned by site to the intervention (20) or the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development
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Fleury, Veronica P. – Young Exceptional Children, 2015
The presence of a developmental disability has been associated with failures in learning to read (Landgren, Kjellman, & Gillberg, 2003). Given that children with disabilities are at higher risk for reading difficulties, it is especially important that they receive repeated opportunities to develop emergent skills--particularly oral language,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Aloud to Others, Child Behavior
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Burnham, Evamarie B.; Wieland, Elizabeth A.; Kondaurova, Maria V.; McAuley, J. Devin; Bergeson, Tonya R.; Dilley, Laura C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: A large body of literature has indicated vowel space area expansion in infant-directed (ID) speech compared with adult-directed (AD) speech, which may promote language acquisition. The current study tested whether this expansion occurs in storybook speech read to infants at various points during their first 2 years of life. Method: In 2…
Descriptors: Vowels, Story Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Infants
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Doyle, Walter – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
This forum article is a response to the article by Alandeom W. Oliveira, Patterson Rogers, Cassie F. Quigley, Denis Sambursky, Kimberly Barss, and Seema Rivera, The article explores agency from the perspective of both personal action and an understanding of causality within environmental systems, and it explores environmental read-alouds as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Climate, Scientific Literacy, Activism
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Truesdell, Kim S.; del Prado Hill, Pixita – Reading Teacher, 2015
This "Teaching Tip" will explain an initiative, Global Book Hour, that engages families in a global literature read aloud. GBH integrates social studies, the visual and performing arts, healthy eating, and vocabulary development as children travel the world through high quality global children's literature. The program is a…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Global Approach, Childrens Literature, Immigrants
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