Study Guide for Reading Notes 2 1 What are the benefits and purposes of reading aloud to young children draw from all readings They begin to recognize words They begin to see the joys that there can be in reading They are able to advance their own skills as readers with more speed than children who may have not been read aloud to 2 Bennett Armistead Duke and Moses Why is oral language development so important for literacy o Children gain a lot of understanding about language from what they hear said around them o Their skills in communication grow and they develop a better understanding of how the world uses speech and literacy together What are some teaching practices that support oral language development in preschool and kindergarten classrooms a bulleted list and a sentence or so describing each practice will be fine here o Teachers should be ready to talk with their students as often and whenever they can to help promote positive oral language growth o The teachers should not be afraid to be in close proximity to the children so the children can see the teacher s lips moving as they speak o The teachers should always be ready to listen to their students as they continue to develop their oral skill as learners o Teachers should be ready and willing to respond the their student s questions and statements and be able to explain what they say to the children o The teachers should be ready to talk about activities they are ding with their students and be able to explain what they will be doing o The teachers should go beyond the here and now and think beyond the present moment o They should engage the children in pretend talk o The teachers should ask open ended questions to get the child to practice their oral skills more o The teachers should tell stories to expose their students to a more rich oral language o The teachers should tell and make sure to explain How can we help build children s oral vocabulary specifically o By using what researchers describe as the goldilocks principal technique we would be hitting the right balance in communication with children By doing that you would not use too many word or to little words 3 Smith Read How can we use read alouds to teach children to respond to literature o By doing read alouds for 30 minutes every day from some form of print the teacher is ensuring that their students get that rich time for reading that they need How can we use read alouds to teach comprehension o Not directly at the beginning Teachers can use read alouds to first read the basal reading program selection aloud to the class so that all their students can understand After that however they may choose to go back to certain passages for comprehension 4 McGee Schickedanz What are the characteristics of a sophisticated picture book o Stories in which readers must infer character s motivations and thoughts and connect them to actions What procedures do the authors recommend for an interactive read aloud in preschool and kindergarten o Book introduction o Vocabulary support technique o Analytical comments and questions What are the benefits of repeated reading aloud of the same book o It allows the children more time to absorb the information that is being thrown at them o they can notice things the second time that they would not have necessarily noticed the first time Key Terms Pretend talk o Involves talking about nonliteral environment or the environment that springs from one s imaginations or past experiences Open ended questions o Questions with no one answer Tier One Tier Two and Tier Three Vocabulary o Tier one basic words o Tier two used by mature language users o Tier three rare and only usually specifically knowledge domain Analytic comments o Commitments with more than one meaning Book genre with examples of different genres o Wordless books ex tuesday by wiesner o Narratives storybooks ex where the wild things are by sendak o o o o o Informational texts ex everywhere babies by meyers Poems ex a child s garden of verse by sevenson Predictable books ex I went talking by williams Concept books ex my colors mis colores by emberley Procedural books ex pretend soup and other real recipes a cookbook for preschoolers and up by Katzen