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Informational Text Use in Preschool Classroom ReadAlouds

JM Pentimonti, TA Zucker, LM Justice… - The Reading …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of the present study was to conduct a comprehensive study of book genres
used in preschool classrooms. Text titles gathered from the reading logs of 84 preschool
teachers were analyzed and coded for genre (narrative, expository, or mixed). Expository ...

[BOOK] Informational Text in K-3 Classrooms. Helping Children Read and Write.

SB Kletzien… - 2004 - eric.ed.gov
... classroom libraries and choosing quality informational texts that you can use with all ... Text in the
K-3 Classroom: Supporting Motivation and Achievement; (2) Including Informational Text in the ...
3) Choosing Informational Books for the Classroom; (4) Using Informational Books for ...

Informational texts as read-alouds at school and home

RH Yopp… - Journal of Literacy Research, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... include informational text, assign informational writing, organize research groups that use texts
as one resource, teach with and about informational text, pair informational text with nar- rative
selections and content area textbooks, and display informational materials in ...

The contexts of comprehension: The information book read aloud, comprehension acquisition, and comprehension instruction in a first-grade classroom

LB Smolkin… - The Elementary School Journal, 2001 - JSTOR
... time to begin for- mal comprehension instruction and that prior to that an interactive use of
informational texts may support ... thought of as comprehen- sion acquisition, which would foster
conceptual development, comprehension strategy forma- tion, and text structure familiarity ...

Sharing informational text with young children

RH Yopp… - The Reading Teacher, 2000 - JSTOR
... Indeed, the work of Robinson, Larsen, Haupt, & Mohlman (1997) revealed that when given
opportunities to choose books, preschool and kindergarten children select familiar books ... Use
as the literature of reading instruction. ... Sharing informational text with young children 413 ...

Preschoolers' acquisition of scientific vocabulary through repeated read-aloud events, retellings, and hands-on science activities

CB Leung - Reading Psychology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... In most studies of preschool children's vocabulary growth from participation in read-aloud events,
the texts selected for ... Few of the texts used in these studies were nonfiction books. ... Until recently,
informational texts have not been as common in home and classroom libraries. ...

Supporting comprehension acquisition for emerging and struggling readers: The interactive information book read-aloud

LB Smolkin… - Exceptionality, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
... The interactive information book read-aloud is best used to serve a particular period
(comprehension acquisition) and a particular ... Beyond the independent-level text: Readability
of first graders self-selections. ... 3.6 minutes per day: The scarcity of informational texts in first grade. ...

Maximizing the effectiveness of reading aloud

HB Lane… - The Reading Teacher, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... Informational books can help children develop content knowledge and enhance their motivation
for reading ... to reading aloud are dialog- ic reading (Whitehurst, Arnold, Epstein, & Angell, 1994),
text talk (Beck ... This method is most com- monly used with preschool children, but it is ...

[PDF] PIRLS 2006 international report

IVS Mullis, MO Martin, AM Kennedy… - … : IEA (http://pirls. bc. edu/isc …, 2007 - pirls.bc.edu
... 158 Exhibit 5.1 Number of Years Children Attended Preprimary Education (Preschool,
Kindergarten, and Other Similar Programs) . . . . ... 212 Exhibit 6.9 Trends in Teachers' Use
of Literary and Informational Texts for Reading Instruction . . . . . ...

The role of knowledge in early literacy

SB Neuman - Reading Research Quarterly, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... DUKE, N. (2000). 3.6 minutes per day: The scarcity of informational texts in first grade. ... FREDE,
E. (1998). Preschool program quality in programs for children in poverty. ... Effects of use of metro
dailies on the knowledge gap in small towns. Journalism Quarterly, 64, 329–336. ...

Literature-based instruction in the early years

LM Morrow… - Handbook of early literacy research, 2001 - books.google.com
... A study by Duke (1998) provided empirical confirmation of the scarcity of informational text in
the ear- ly grades. ... The results of this study documented that in December, the children's pretend
readings of unfamiliar wordless expository text contained far greater use of key ...

Vocabulary: Questions from the classroom

CLZ Blachowicz, PJL Fisher, D Ogle… - Reading Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... economically disadvantaged and eco- nomically advantaged children that begins in preschool
and persists ... much less dependent on specific terms used by au- thors than informational texts
used in sci ... Teachers also model the use of new and sophisticated words and, along with ...

“Can I say 'once upon a time'?”: Kindergarten children developing knowledge of information book language

NK Duke… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998 - Elsevier
... Duke (1998) found little inclusion of informational text in first grade classrooms she studied. ...
widespread use of and support for the practice of reading aloud to young children, it seemed
wise to use this as a means of exposing children to expository, information book texts. ...

The construction of literary understanding by first and second graders in oral response to picture storybook readalouds

LR Sipe - Reading Research Quarterly, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... 3-year-old children made of books in their sociodramatic play in both preschool and home ... a)
bring their own life experiences to bear in interpreting texts and (b) use texts to understand ... An
intertextual perspective suggests that any giv- en text may be interpreted within the matrix ...

[BOOK] The contexts of comprehension: Information book read alouds and comprehension acquisition

LB Smolkin… - 2000 - ciera.org
... And, from Pellegrini's (1990, 1991) research, we are aware that informational texts may have
greater ... careers, from their beginning use during comprehension acquisition to their later use in
comprehension instruction, give clear indications that such texts can be ...

A qualitative assessment of first graders' retelling of expository text

B Moss - Literacy Research and Instruction, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... To that end, this author explored the extent to which 20 first graders were able to orally retell the
informational trade book, How Kittens Grow (Selsam, 1973), and what ... In fact, teachers themselves
note that they are less familiar with expository text and sel- dom use it with their ...

[BOOK] Reading process and practice

C Weaver… - 2002 - heinemann.com
... How might we prepare to teach reading/thinking strategies through literature and short
informational texts? ... supports the children by suggesting strategies and helping the children use
those strategies. ... Shared writing---The children help plan the text and tell the teacher what and ...

Expository text comprehension: Helping primary-grade teachers use expository texts to full advantage

KM Hall, BL Sabey… - Reading Psychology, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
... Both instructional programs used two types of text: (a) informational books from ... As the lessons
progressed, the students were also reminded to try and use clue words in other situations and
with other content. ... Following the introduction of the text, the students read the text aloud. ...

Preschool teachers' literal and inferential questions and children's responses during whole-class shared reading

TA Zucker, LM Justice, SB Piasta… - Early Childhood Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
... to our understanding of preschool teachers' use of inferential questions during informational book
reading, and how these may be associated with features of the text itself and ... The aims were
fourfold: (1) to describe preschool teachers' use of inferential questions during ...

Beyond exposure: The uses of informational texts in a second grade classroom

B Maloch - Research in the Teaching of English, 2008 - JSTOR
... I did not promote or encourage her use of these texts. Instead, according to Melissa, she
intentionally incorpo- rated informational texts as a way of motivating students, exposing them
to vari- ous text types, and making connections to science and social studies units. ...

Sorting it out: Elementary students' responses to fact and fiction in informational storybooks as readalouds for science and social studies

E Brabham, P Boyd… - Literacy Research and …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... fact and fiction so teachers can take full advantage of this type of motivating text as read-aloud ...
attention to the functions of author's notes, references, and features that can be used to help ...
teachers can take advantage of the mixture of fact and fiction in informational storybooks to ...

It's a Snake, You Guys!":" The Power of Text Characteristics on Children's Responses to Information Books

C Tower - Research in the Teaching of English, 2002 - JSTOR
... preschoolers' emerging knowledge of information book language? ... questions and have the benefit
of allow- ing for direct comparison between their findings and those with other kinds of
informational texts.Therefore, I replicated as closely as possible the methods used in that ...

Effects of teachers' reading-aloud styles on vocabulary acquisition and comprehension of students in the early elementary grades.

E Greene Brabham… - Journal of Educational …, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
... Preservice teachers, trained and guided by scripted procedures, read 2 informational storybooks
to students ... to questions, repeat factual information, and recite parts of the text in chorus ... but not
comprehension were significantly greater for children with readers who used the de ...

Providing preschool foundations for later reading comprehension: The importance of and ideas for targeting inferencing in storybook‐sharing interventions

AV Kleeck - Psychology in the Schools, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... child in responding to them; children are not explicitly taught to use such strategies ... the adult
displaying and requesting the kinds of information that support text comprehension. ... questions
can be asked while reading stories to preschoolers – causal, informational, and evaluative ...

The effective elementary classroom literacy environment: Examining the validity of the TEX-IN3 Observation System

JV Hoffman, M Sailors, GR Duffy… - Journal of Literacy …, 2004 - jlr.sagepub.com
... Duke suggested several strategies for addressing the scarcity of informational texts in elementary
classrooms as a way of equalizing reading achievement ... The instrument has been established
as reliable (ELLCO Technical Re- port, 2002) for use in preschool classrooms. ...

[HTML] Early childhood and elementary literature-based instruction: Current perspectives and special issues

LB Gambrell, LM Morrow… - Reading Online, 2002 - readingonline.org
... High-quality narrative and informational literature provides the basis for a consistent read ... reading
instruction with alternative models, several do evaluate the use of literature in ... literature-based
reading instruction and early literacy development, expository text, and motivation to ...

Proof, practice, and promise: Comprehension strategy instruction in the primary grades

KAD Stahl - The Reading Teacher, 2004 - JSTOR
... classroom teachers. ... We want in struction that will help children learn to use prior knowledge
effectively to make specific connections to text, and teaching strategies that will help them navigate
multiple genres of text about which they may have limited background knowledge. ...

Instruction in Reading Comprehension for Primary-Grade Students A Focus on Text Structure

JP Williams - The Journal of Special Education, 2005 - sed.sagepub.com
... We observed the ways in which the teachers used the activities and also the reactions of the ... 20
first-grade classrooms across 10 different school districts, found a scarcity of informational texts
in all ... It is likely that this lack of experience with exposi- tory text contributes to the fourth ...

The selection and use of English texts with young English language learners

GE García… - The texts in elementary classrooms, 2004 - books.google.com
... Texts (narrative and informational) that include characters, events, and/or settings ... I and II). San
Mateo, CA: Aguirre International. Page 180. 1O. SELECTION AND USE OF ENGLISH TEXTS
171 Rehnman, M.(1989), The clay flute. Stockholm: R & S Books. Reyes, M.(1991). ...

Beginning reading and writing: Perspectives on instruction

W Teale… - Beginning reading and writing, 2000 - books.google.com
... effect relationships; dis- cussing how, why, and what-if questions about informational texts;
responding to ... are able to understand more complex concepts and lan- guage from texts that are ...
accept the various forms of writ- ing that kindergartners typically use (scribble, random ...

[PDF] “Tweaking Practice”: Modifying Read-Alouds to Enhance Content Vocabulary Learning in Grade

CLZ Blachowicz, C Obrochta - Fifty-sixth yearbook of …, 2007 - yearbook.nrconline.org
... strategies for the classroom which build upon, rather than conflict with, the practices they already
use and value ... Long-term effects of preschool teachers' book readings on low- income children's
vocabulary and story ... An examination of the informational text genre in basal readers ...

Prekindergarten teachers' verbal references to print during classroom-based, large-group shared reading

TA Zucker, LM Justice… - Language, Speech, and Hearing …, 2009 - ASHA
... It is presently unknown whether teacher use of books that feature higher levels of print-salient ...
it is embedded in illustrations or when the font changes noticeably in the body of the text. Indeed,
eye-gaze studies confirm that preschoolers spend more time fixating on print that is ...

Promoting literacy in students with ASD: The basics for the SLP

E Lanter… - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 2008 - ASHA
... areas of interest, such as trains, and may be highly motivated to listen to informational texts on
the ... Major Achievements in the Skilled Reading Stage The term skilled reading is used here to
reflect the period when students can "derive meaning from printed text accurately and ...

Literacy-rich environments and the transition of young children with special needs

DS Katims… - Topics in Early Childhood Special …, 1995 - tec.sagepub.com
... children's literature, including poems, fairy tales, picture books, alphabet books, fables,
informational books, holiday ... their communicative devices and by the recording of repeated or
predictable text on a ... loop tape using a tape player adapted for assistive switch use (Pierce &c ...

Scaffolding urban students' initiations: Transactions in reading information books in the read-aloud curriculum genre

CC Pappas… - Reader response in elementary …, 1997 - books.google.com
... 5Oyler (1993) and Oyler and Barry (1993) provide many other examples of initiations as
transactions to informational books. ... as a human, cultural activity that is socially structured (having
a particular sequence of actions, and so forth), the talk or text being used to perform ...

Learning to be literate: A comparison of five urban early childhood programs.

A McGill-Franzen, C Lanford… - Journal of Educational …, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
... about 100 books at any one time, frequently changed titles as themes changed, and used the
resources of a ... narratives, predictable books, and song- books, the libraries here typically displayed
many examples of expository and informational texts. ... Figure 1. Time spent with text. ...

Children's understanding of genre and writing development

CA Donovan… - Handbook of writing research, 2006 - books.google.com
... Although aware- ness of the need to use a variety of genres in the elementary grades ... 1999) found,
with few exceptions, that children produced more complex stories and informational texts in
response to their more highly scaffolded task (write a familiar text) than for ...

Genres at home and at school: Bridging the known to the new

NK Duke… - The Reading Teacher, 2003 - JSTOR
... Programs / Letters (correspondence) Biblical text /Greeting cards Informational ... chil dren are more
familiar with the functions and fea tures of the genres used, they may ... Recent research indicates
that even young children can make connections between dif ferent texts and that ...

[PDF] Teaching and developing vocabulary: Key to long-term reading success

JJ Pikulski… - Boughton Mifflin, in http://www …, 2004 - ww.notiziedeattualita.com
... Development: The Important Preschool Years ... Some authors of informational texts make it a point
to use artificially enhanced contexts to facilitate word learning. If new words are defined
appropriately in the selection, they may not need to be discussed beforehand. ...

CHILDREN S CHOICES: A COMPARISON OF BOOK PREFERENCES BETWEEN HISPANIC AND NON-HISPANIC FIRST-GRADERS

KAJ Mohr - Reading Psychology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
... The following books were selected for use in the study: Title Author ... These texts were representative
of the following attributes: • Gender (male and female characters) • Genre (fanciful and realistic
fiction, informational and bio- graphical nonfiction, and poetry) • Ethnicity (Anglo ...

Teaching struggling readers in elementary school classrooms: A review of classroom reading programs and principles for instruction

AM Duffy-Hester - The Reading Teacher, 1999 - JSTOR
... writing in response or reading logs) and extended (eg, writing sto ries or informational texts)
periods of ... Then students choose texts from a variety of genres written on differing diffi culty levels
and ... 204-205) These literacy aspects are used to create a pro gram used with Native ...

The role of genre in preschoolers' response to picture books

S Shine… - Research in the Teaching of English, 1999 - JSTOR
... Children's language reflected the rhythms of the poetic books and the informational discourse
suggested by the ... crafting of the text do children focus on when responding to various text types ...
What approaches or stances - ie, types of talk or strategies - did children use to interpret ...

Teacher Use Of Interactive Read Alouds Using Nonfiction In Early Childhood Classrooms

GM Bortnem - Journal of College Teaching & Learning ( …, 2011 - journals.cluteonline.com
... Teachers have traditionally used fictional literature in the classroom, but there is growing research
that nonfiction or informational literature are ... the amount of time they read aloud to children and the
amount of time they spend reading fiction compared to nonfiction text. ...

[BOOK] Building a foundation for preschool literacy: Effective instruction for children's reading and writing development

C Vukelich… - 2009 - books.google.com
... Focusing on this core content will ensure that instructional time is being used optimally to promote
children's academic readiness ... large groups and small groups, with little books and Big Books,
and using a variety of texts, including 12 ... storybooks, informational books, and poetry ...

Nonfiction texts for young readers

NK Duke, C Tower - The texts in elementary classrooms, 2004 - books.google.com
... by Ann Morris (1990) Pretend soup and other real recipes: A cookbook for preschoolers and
up ... Learning to understand, use, and appreciate these features may be a challenge, but, as ... At
the same time, many believe that no text, including informational text, is without perspective ...

Influences of text and pictures on shared and emergent readings

CA Elster - Research in the Teaching of English, 1998 - JSTOR
... Pellgerini, Galda, Jones, and Perlmutter (1995) investigated how mothers and their Head Start
children shared two types of informational books: a book ... Books Used Books were selected by
the teachers and me to sustain interest over repeated readings and for text features of ...

[PDF] The power of planning: Developing effective read-alouds

MK Shedd… - Young Children, 2008 - interactivereadalouds.pbworks.com
... Page 5. happen next in an informational text. ... Beck, IL, & MG McKeown. 2001. Text talk: Captur-
ing the benefits of read-aloud experiences for young children. The Reading Teacher 55 (1):
10-20. ... However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.

[CITATION] Building comprehension when they're still learning to read the words

G Ivey - Comprehension instruction: Research-based best …, 2002 - Guilford Press New York

Preschool through elementary writing

M Chapman - … on composition: Multiple perspectives on two …, 2006 - books.google.com
... In four case studies Read (2001) investigated the collaborative writing of pairs of first-and
second-grade children writing informational books using source texts. ... Cox (1994) argues that
the first graders in her study used talk to control the text's content by checking meaning and ...

Examining the effects of gender and genre on interactions in shared book reading

J Anderson, A Anderson, J Lynch… - Literacy Research and …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
... of course are narrative texts, the latter two are non-narrative texts or informational books. ... Golden
and Gerber (1990) point out, in shared storybook reading, parents and children use "a variety ...
It would also seem to follow that teachers regularly share non-narrative texts with their ...

[BOOK] Oral language and early literacy in preschool: Talking, reading, and writing

K Roskos, PO Tabors… - 2009 - books.google.com
... professional knowledge that jointly support - , „ _. . .. . necessary tor planning an errective
preschool language and ... grasped the gram- mar rules of their language and increasingly use
language for ... in control of oral language • Relies heavily on pictures in text • Pretend reads ...

Classroom storybook reading: The creation of texts and learning opportunities

MG Martinez… - Theory Into Practice, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
... must be actively involved in making connections among text segments and filling in informational
gaps within ... inferential com- prehension stated they had never before realized that they could
use their own knowledge and ex- perience as the basis for understanding text. ...

Helping parents to read expository literature to their children: Promoting main‐idea and detail understanding

L Warren… - Literacy Research and Instruction, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... Initial highly interactive readings with very young preschoolers gradually give way to more parental
reading of longer chunks of text with less interpretation (eg, Sulzby & ... Each student met individually
with one of the researchers and was given a text not otherwise used in the ...

[BOOK] Using children's literature in preschool: Comprehending and enjoying books

LM Morrow… - 2004 - books.google.com
... Invited guests can use this chair to present information to the class. ... A preschool classroom library
should offer five to eight books per child, with books ranging across three to ... material we read
is nonfiction; for this reason, children need a lot of experience with informational text. ...

Information literacy: The missing link in early childhood education

KL Heider - Early childhood education journal, 2009 - Springer
... use of informa- tional texts with a multi-age, team-taught preschool class in ... Both classroom
teachers (Veronica and Gina) were advocates of integrating information literacy into the ... texts,
children recognize text fea- tures and develop the ability to use informational text features. ...

The Social Studies Classroom on the Eve of the Cyber Century.

JS Eaton - Social Education, 1999 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - EJ598123. Title: The Social Studies Classroom on the
Eve of the Cyber Century. Full-Text Availability Options: ...

Voicing Texts, Voices around Texts:" Reading Poems in Elementary School Classrooms"

CA Elster… - Research in the Teaching of English, 2002 - JSTOR
... The genre perspective on language and literacy use supports a multi-genre perspective on literacy ...
format of toy advertisements and one based on the unfamiliar format of informational trade books ...
of mothers' and children's utterances dur- ing readings of the two text formats. ...

Response to literature as a cultural activity

L Galda… - Reading Research Quarterly, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... Preschool children are more likely to adopt imaginative modes of response in responding to
fantasy ... or hypothe- ses; (b) relating these questions/hypotheses to relevant aspects in the text
and their ... They may also use informal writing as a tool to as- sist students in formulating ...

[BOOK] Designing early literacy programs: Strategies for at-risk preschool and kindergarten children

LM McGee… - 2003 - books.google.com
... Summary, 133 CHAPTER 9. Prekindergarten in Action 134 Introduction, 134 The Preschool
Curriculum, 135 ... strategies for understanding the meaning of vari- ous kinds of texts, and the ... We
use this information to make recommendations about selecting children for an early lit ...

Fact and Fiction Read Aloud.

S Taberski - Instructor, 2001 - eric.ed.gov
... Pub Types: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive. ... by reading
aloud paired nonfiction and fiction text sets, explaining: why nonfiction is so important; how to
teach children how nonfiction works; how to carry out a paired text read-aloud; and how to ...

The pleasure of recognition: Intertextuality in the talk of preschoolers during shared reading with mothers and teachers

J Torr - Early Years, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
... Several of the preschool teachers and mothers asked the child directly to compare his or her ... a
learning experience for the children which is similar to a strategy frequently used in school ... genres
on the same topic, for example, a poem, a fairytale and an informational text about a ...

Learning written storybook language in school: A comparison of low-SES children in skills-based and whole language classrooms

V Purcell-Gates, E McIntyre… - American Educational …, 1995 - aer.sagepub.com
... a day, but there was no sanctioned period in which children could read or re-enact the texts. ... These
four teachers typically used a broad range of literature. ... from various genres including realistic
fiction, folk and fairy tales, historical fiction, poetry, and informational or nonfiction ...

[PDF] Exploring the literature of fact: Linking reading and writing through information trade books

B Moss, S Leone… - Language Arts, 1997 - group3final.pbworks.com
... It is well to note that informational books need not be ex- clusively expository in nature; more
and ... a variety of situations that help to create a need for student engagement with expository text.
First, they may use classroom novels as a springboard to the exploration of information. ...

Teaching expository text structure to young at-risk learners: Building the basics of comprehension instruction

JP Williams, KM Hall… - Exceptionality, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
... Duke, NK, Bennett-Armistead, VS, & Roberts, EM (2002). Incorporating informational text
in the pri- mary grades. ... Meyer, BJF, Brandt, DM, & Bluth, GJ (1980). Use of top-level structure
in text: Key for reading compre- hension of ninth-grade students. ...

[BOOK] Exploring the literature of fact: Children's nonfiction trade books in the elementary classroom

B Moss - 2003 - books.google.com
... Informational ti- tles addressing a wide range of topics are becoming increasingly common. ...
SUMMARY Nonfiction trade books have enormous potential as a complement to the text- books
that ... the books found in this genre, they are better able to select books for classroom use. ...

[HTML] Reading motivation: What the research says

L Gambrell, B Marinak… - US Rockets, 2009 - colorincolorado.org
... And though the use of such rewards continues to be debated, a recent study indicates ... Dr. Marinak
s research interests include informational text, reading motivation, and the observation and ... Intrinsic
motivation and rewards: What sustains young children's engagement with text? ...

[BOOK] Put reading first: The research building blocks for teaching children to read: Kindergarten through grade 3

BB Armbruster - 2010 - books.google.com
... alphabet, engaging in phonemic awareness activities, and listening to stories and informational
texts read aloud to them. They also should be reading texts (both out loud and silently), and writing
letters ... Children learn to use these relationships to decode words that contain them ...

Teaching and Learning in the Affective Domain: A Review of the Literature.

WC Hunt - 1987 - eric.ed.gov
... ERIC Full Text (868K ... evident that affective factors are an important dimension of the
teaching/learning process and that the ways in which teachers respond to students and classroom
situations relate ... Appendix A details the instrumentation used in measuring the affective domain ...

Toward evidence-based literacy interventions for children with severe and multiple disabilities

DA Koppenhaver, MP Hendrix… - Seminars in speech …, 2007 - thieme-connect.com
... of active and interactive application (eg, cooking with recipes, creating informational charts),
listening ... children with CP in applying basic phonological skills in analyzing and synthesizing
texts. ... eye-gaze boards and multimessage, voice output devices, and she used these AAC ...

[BOOK] Theoretical models and processes of reading

RB Ruddell… - 2004 - eric.ed.gov
... Part 2, Foundations for Literacy Development, contains: (12) Preschoolers' Developing Ownership
of the ... Zhihui Fang, and Beverly White Otto); (13) Learning to Read Words: Linguistic ... Learning
(Rand J. Spiro); (25) Building Representations of Informational Text: Evidence From ...

[BOOK] Read it again!: revisiting shared reading

B Parkes - 2000 - books.google.com
... of a BalancedLiteracy Program 61 6 Working with Narrative Texts 7 Informational Texts 8
Innovating ... models effective reading skills, strategies, and behaviors and engages children in
their use. ... In addition, the whole, continuous text enables children to see how all aspects of the ...

[BOOK] Supporting struggling readers and writers: strategies for classroom intervention, 3-6

DS Strickland, K Ganske… - 2002 - books.google.com
... Layer texts for various ... Learning to read and write may be extremely chal- lenging and difficult
for 1. Children with a history of preschool language impairment. ... there are indica- tors outside
the normal range, such as severe delay in pronunciation accu- racy and use of complex ...

The Development of the Early Expository Comprehension Assessment (EECA) A Look at Reliability

KM Hall, JC Markham… - Communication Disorders …, 2005 - cdq.sagepub.com
... grades, expository text demands in- crease as children are exposed to content-area texts (ie,
sci- ence and math) in the curriculum, informational tradebooks, and ... The EECA is not meant to
be used as an all-encompassing ex- pository text–comprehension assessment, but it ...

Motivational‐emotional vulnerability and difficulties in learning to read and spell

E Poskiparta, P Niemi, J Lepola… - British Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
... In preschool, the motivational-emotional profiles were almost the same among the three
prospective reading ... are essentially based on self-reports, a method that is difficult to use with
young ... Successful word decoding and text comprehension demand sustained concentration. ...

The interplay between literacy and relationships in early childhood settings

MM Ostrosky, JS Gaffney… - Reading & Writing …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Book reading in preschool classrooms: Is recommended practice common ? ... the predominant
genre of texts selected for reading to children, a strong case has been made for expanding the
use of informational ... 3.6 minutes per day: The scarcity of informational texts in first grade . ...

Emergent Spanish writing of a second grader in a whole language classroom

AD de Silva - Sociocultural contexts of language and literacy, 1998 - books.google.com
... She occasionally wrote expository (informational) text. In one such text she explained that the
President of the United States lived in Washington, DC. ... Edelsky observed that the first-and
second-grade students used code-switching in Spanish text deliber- Page 279. ...

Reading instructions in an integrated language perspective: Collaborative interaction in classroom curriculum genres

CC Pappas - Instructional models in reading, 1997 - books.google.com
... PERSPECTIVE 297 on a leafy branch had been placed, along with books (mostly informational
ones) and ... Latoya turned the book around, pointing to the names in the text, and asked," How
do you ... put down some of the" Black talk" in the Cotton book." This author used talk like ...

Preschool Book Reading: Teacher, Child, and Text Contributions to Vocabulary Growth

BG Watson - 2008 - etd.library.vanderbilt.edu
... more than informational texts in schools, this was not always the case in American education. ...
because most book reading research on vocabulary learning involves narrative texts. ... exposures
to words, elaboration of words during reading, use of a reading style that facilitates ...

The partnership for family reading: Benefits for families and schools

RD Handel - The Reading Teacher, 1992 - JSTOR
... Subsequently, the emergent literacy de velopment of preschoolers became part of the family
literacy program ... in the early grades?parents will be impressed with the variety of informational
text they can ... The Table illustrates a list of books, classified by genre, used recently in the ...

From Literature Based Reading to Reader Response in the Elementary School Classroom.

RW Blake - 1995 - eric.ed.gov
... Title: From Literature Based Reading to Reader Response in the Elementary School Classroom. ...
and oral; (2) rather than answering specific questions dictated by the teacher, the child gives
initial, intuitive responses and backs them up using details from the text; (3) rather than ...

Teaching Literature in Elementary School: A Report of a Project on the Elementary School Antecedents of Secondary School Literature Instruction. Report Series 1.3.

SA Walmsley… - 1989 - eric.ed.gov
... ERIC Full Text (1196K). ... Abstract: A study investigated how elementary teachers use literature
in their classrooms, focusing on what instructional philosophies drive ... Seventy-four subjects--46
classroom teachers; 15 reading, special education and gifted and talented specialists; 5 ...

[PDF] Teacher Scaffolding of First-Graders' Literary Understanding During Read Alouds of Fairytale Variants

LR Sipe, AE Brightman - National …, 2006 - yearbook. …
... The type of scaffolding appropriate for informational stories (for example The Carrot Seed [Krauss,
1945 ... of fictional texts like picture storybooks of traditional tales, which are the texts used in this ...
Thus, teachers turn the “potential text” of the book into a “realized text” (Golden & ...

Promoting writing and preventing writing failure in young children

B Kissel - Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... In a preschool classroom, the teacher typically crafts printed drawings at the beginning of ... exposes
the children to multiple genres, such as personal narratives, informational texts, personal letters ...
Students' having opportunities to use oral language to talk about their experiences ...

[BOOK] Learning to be literate: A comparison of five urban early childhood programs

A McGill-Franzen, C Lanford, E Adams… - 1997 - albany.edu
... informational books on how to behave, such as Joy Berry's (1982) series: Let's Talk
About ... and expository texts for children on religious topics for use by the teachers and
children since she became affiliated with the center 14 years ago. ...

The effects of electronic books on pre-kindergarten-to-grade 5 students' literacy and language outcomes: A research synthesis

TA Zucker, AK Moody… - Journal of Educational Computing …, 2009 - Baywood
... We also limited our search to studies that used e-books with children in pre-K to ... treatment condition
in the study, a computerized presentation of a narrative story or informational text (in school ... a
book or text (eg, click to turn “pages”), and • includes an oral reading/text-to-speech ...

“The Seesaw Is a Machine That Goes Up and Down”: Young Children's Narrative Responses to Science-Related Informational Text

P Mantzicopoulos… - Early Education and Development, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... Narrative evidence based on classroom discourse and individual interviews with children confirms
that within ... The informational texts used in the latter set of studies were about a variety of topics ...
The current study extends this work through the use of methodology that allowed us ...

What are Preschool Teachers Reading in Their Classrooms?

JM Pentimonti, TA Zucker… - Reading Psychology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... found that teachers in low-SES classrooms spent minimal time (about 1.9 minutes per day)
encouraging students to use informational texts. ... there has been limited to no increase over the
past 15 years in the quantity of informational text that US preschoolers are exposed to ...

Creating opportunities to acquire new word meanings from text

JA Scott - Teaching and learning vocabulary: Bringing research …, 2005 - books.google.com
... In an analysis of the five most widely used basals in K-3 classrooms, Walsh ... further research, this
review points to several directions for improvement in the development of informational text. ... or
informative contexts can raise the number of words learned as students read the text ...

Use of literature in the home and at school

LM Morrow… - Handbook of family literacy, 2004 - books.google.com
... When taking an efferent stance in reading or listening to informational text, the readers ... Students,
however, did have difficulty making personal connections to text before the intervention of ... Library
centers that promoted children's voluntary use of books were characterized by the ...

The school library media specialist and early literacy programs

D Shannon - Knowledge Quest: Journal of the American Association …, 2004 - AASL
... incorporate the use of informational texts into the curriculum and to engage children in ... The
common experience of sharing powerful texts and subsequent engagement, reflection, and
discussion perme ... read them in advance; ● read from a variety of genres; ● use expression in ...

Teaching expository comprehension skills in early childhood classrooms

B Culatta, KM Hall-Kenyon… - Topics in Language …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
... Other informational or expository texts that young children encounter take the form of simple ... In
examining books used in classrooms, Moss and Newton (1998, as cited in Pentimonti et al., 2010 )
found that in preschool 82% of the texts read aloud to children were ...

[PDF] Information books in early childhood

NK Duke - Retrieved August, 2003 - earlychildhoodconnections.com
... Teach- ing children about text through hands-on use, demonstration, and explanation can promote
literacy development. Page 7. 7 ... These are usually for grades K–2, but in some cases they are
appropriate for preschoolers. ... 2000. Sharing informational text with young children. ...

Comprehension in the Elementary Grades

KL Roberts… - Comprehension across the curriculum: …, 2009 - books.google.com
... who estab- lished more authentic reading and writing activities for informational and procedural ...
greater comprehension gains were observed when teachers engaged in text-structure instruction ...
provided visual imagery training, prompted children to activate and use prior knowl ...

[PDF] Using electronic books in the classroom to enhance emergent literacy skills in young children'

A Moody - Journal of Literacy and Technology, 2010 - literacyandtechnology.org
... (informational and narrative) from five popular online sources for teachers and parents. ...
developmentally appropriate text and features as well as alignment with individual instructional ...
directions for use, and encourage use of beneficial digital features (eg, word pronunciations, ...

Bringing It All Back Home.

N Atwell - New Advocate, 1989 - eric.ed.gov
... Full-Text Availability Options: ... Abstract: A former eighth grade reading and writing teacher considers
how her experience in a classroom workshop for readers and ... Emphasizes providing children
with adequate time to read, choice of what to read, and opportunities to respond. ...

For the love of words: Fostering word consciousness in young readers

MF Graves… - The reading teacher, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... Reading the same text aloud three or four times over the course of a week gives children an ... In
addition to variety in genres—including plenty of informational books, some of which are ... library
in- clude works of fiction and nonfiction that explicitly explore word use, word origins ...

Emergent literacy is emerging knowledge of written, not oral, language

V Purcell‐Gates - New directions for child and adolescent …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... for all speakers, we see a clearer path that involves introducing the use of the ... Linguis- tic Precocity,
Preschool Language, and Emergent Literacy.” Developmental Psychology, 1992, 28, 421–429. ...
Duke, NK “3.6 Minutes per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade ...

[PDF] What's the purpose? Students talk about writing in science

C Tower - Language Arts, 2005 - learner.org
... “Look at this nest!” The beauty and power of using informational books with ... Since writ- ing is a
social process widely used to communicate, developing audience awareness is central to ... students
could not always identify an intended audience for a particu- lar text they had written ...

Talking about picture books: The influence of maternal education on four-year-old children's talk with mothers and pre-school teachers

J Torr - Journal of early childhood literacy, 2004 - ecl.sagepub.com
... In this section, I have analysed the manner in which the children used the interpersonal function
of ... the total number of messages produced by the four groups of dyads while reading the
informational and narrative picture books, including the reading of the written text. ...

Coh-Metrix Providing Multilevel Analyses of Text Characteristics

AC Graesser, DS McNamara… - Educational …, 2011 - edr.sagepub.com
... These classifications consider semantic features in addition to the syntactic classes.
Word frequency. ... From the standpoint of genre, writers use simpler syntax on the
informational texts in which readers have lower prior knowledge. ...

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