The role of parent-child and teacher-child shared story telling and storybook reading is a key vehicle for supporting children's development of emergent literacy and early language skills. This highly usable and practical book brings the advantages of sharing books and stories to educational and clinical settings, effectively demonstrating how it may be used to support: print knowledge phonological awareness vocabulary inferential language abilities grammatical and narrative skills With contributions from notable scholars who actively conduct research in the areas of education, developmental psychology, speech language pathology, reading, and early literacy, this unique resource synthesizes and applies current theory and research on uses of sharing books and stories in educational and intervention contexts.

About the Author
Anne van Kleeck, Ph.D. Anne van Kleeck, Ph.D., Professor and Callier Research Scholar, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Callier Center for Communication Disorders.

Reviews
Jane Oates, SLT, Bulletin, Journal of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, (2008): "...Practical and highly usable... I recommend van Kleeck's own explicit strategy for developing inferencing..."



Book Information
ISBN 9781597560917
Author Anne van Kleeck
Format Paperback
Page Count 356
Imprint Plural Publishing Inc
Publisher Plural Publishing Inc
Weight(grams) 581g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 53mm