Research Findings: Teaching thinking skills is an important goal of formal primary and
secondary education. Storybook reading is a well-established routine in the first few school
years. Thinking skills can easily be fostered during these potentially language-rich ...

... Students were asked to discuss words and concepts before, during, and after parts of the text
were read so these readings were interspersed with interactions that lasted ... Immediately after
the third reading, preservice teachers gave vocabulary posttest and com- prehension ...

... 2. For transcripts of the interactions during the three phases of the book-reading
program—coaching, peer modeling, and parent-child interaction—see Edwards (1991) and
Edwards and Garcia (in press). ... Non-verbal media- tors of teacher expectancy effects. ...

... pared with maternal quality of assistance during problem solving. ... The intricate patterns that emerge
are a function of the interactions between the dimensions. ... New York: Center for Young Children
and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1989. Page 15. ...

... experiences may not be in keeping with the expectations of the elementary school teachers. ... on
reading has focused on the nature of adult-child interactions involving storybooks ... They varied
familiar and unfamiliar narrative and expository texts during interactive reading between ...

... the use of language in different cultural contexts and to help teachers understand and ... of
preschoolers in Head Start provided a general structure to their interactions sur- rounding ... African
American mothers' use of specific communicative acts during book reading have also been ...

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Six mothers hammer et al.: book reading interactions 205 ... Page 13. in each group asked no more
than one prediction or extension question during the book reading sessions. ...

... extension time should shed additional light on the role of children's social interactions and their ...
The daily routine in both classrooms included a story time session, during which the teacher read ...
Both teachers taught about letter-sound associations on a weekly and daily basis by ...

... Head Start teachers remained blind to the designation (control or experimental) of reading groups ...
One storybook from the selected corpus of eight books was read during each group ... referencing
behaviors (Ezell & Justice, 2000) to enhance the children's interactions with print ...

... earning begins at birth, and parents have been called children's first teachers (Bornstein, 1995;
Brazelton & Greenspan, 2000; Collins, Maccoby, Steinberg, Hetherington, & ... TABLE 1
DESCRIPTION OF THE VERBAL INTERACTIONS CODED DURING THE SHARED ...

... for the mothers when such assistance was needed (encourage them to review teacher tapes),
and ... Having the opportunity to watch their videotaped interactions with other parents encouraged
the parents ... Videotaping during phase three (parent-child interaction) was essen- tial. ...

... that may, for example, elicit a recounting of the same story the teacher read during circle time ...
may influence performance on test tasks that seek information that the teacher or examiner ... eg,
"You write with it." "It goes like this" + gesture for hammering) during interactions with their ...

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Journal Articles. Abstract: Examines two case studies of multigrade teachers, and focuses on ...

... Abstract: Provides an example of how one teacher in Prague learned her craft from
her pupils and their community, resulting in a successful teaching style that is in direct
contrast to general policy and practice in Czech education. ...

... negotiated the various expectations of adults, siblings, and peers during their interactions with
print. ... Evidence of Metalinguistic Ability During Classroom Reading and Writing Events. ... and the
sense that a "literate community" was established between students, teachers, and the ...

... SD = 118 s). Combined, an average of 12.3 min of read- ing interaction was studied ... rel's Tale
is a manipulative storybook featuring flaps for lifting and slots for pushing through ... the present
study to provide a representative depiction of parent–child lan- guage use during reading. ...

... Joiner himself said, The research evidence supports the theory that the learning of reading can
be ... During my 6 years as PTA president, parents were involved in several activities. Some of the
activities included participation in committees, consisting of parents, teachers, and the ...

... However, other studies point to the value of children's participation in shared-reading interactions
at the literal level ... However, teachers were also presented with several ideas related to shared
reading such as managing children's behavior during reading, making shared ...

... Salesperson City worker Teacher Unknown ... related to book reading activities, they did deal with
how parents addressed their children in spontaneous interactions. ... of this latter variety would
appear to make up a large proportion of the interrogatives used during book- reading ...

... parents either directly contacted researchers or returned slips to their children's teachers. ... During
the interview, the researcher provided parents with self-administered questionnaires. ...
Parent–School Partnership model because it better represents the interactions between this ...

... to expand our understanding of readiness for literacy, we may relegate some students to almost
certain failure during the early ... show that they often get labeled “disadvantaged,” when evaluated
in the preschool or school by their teachers and by their interactions with adults ...

... Teachers became familiar with both sets of strategies and selected particular dimensions to model ...
each of the three phases (coaching, peer modeling, parent-child interaction) are available ...
Implementation of the book-reading program Phase one: coaching During the first phase ...

... Justice, LM, Weber, SE, Ezell, HK and Bakeman, R. 2002. A sequential analysis of children's
responsiveness to parental print references during shared book-reading interactions. ...
Children's responses to educators' questions in day care play groups. ...

... income parents and their children learn how to optimize their interactions during the reading ... All
educators are encouraged to become more in- formed about these critical connections ...
Connections 55 Appendix A Selected Literature to Promote Conversation During Parent-Child ...

... Discusses the various projects that students have created after reading great literature. Illustrates
the ways teachers have incorporated the use of the classics into their curriculum. (JS). Abstractor:
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... asked to answer during conversations with adults were very dissimilar from the types of questions
teachers typically ask ... van Kleeck & Beckley-McCall, 2002) moved toward investigating spe- cific
aspects of parents' interactions with children during storybook reading to help ...

... On a cautionary note, Edwards's work (1989) suggests that young low-income mothers with lower
read- ing levels do see themselves as their chil- dren's first teacher and role ... Besides book reading,
researchers also have examined verbal interactions during other activities ...

... Benchmark measures not only provide a tool for teachers to use at the start of ... We ensured the
systematicity and explicitness of the reading interactions for these parents by identifying three ...
words that were unknown by the children, and when these occurred during the storybook ...

... Our observations had confirmed teacher con cerns that children rarely chose the reading or writing
corners during center time. ... We video taped our interaction with children and subsequently
developed a composite tape of literacy activities to share with teachers. ...

... toward independent functioning, especially addressing the consequence of the teacher's story
reading ... one-on-one interaction between an adult and child over a story book reading. The
interactions did facilitate the below average ability student's memory and comprehension ...

... There were two studies in this issue that specifically examined written narrative interactions at
school. ... strategies in the classroom, one study in this issue specifically focused on the strategies
teachers use to foster children's critical thinking during storybook reading. ...

... show the same developmental progression as the children in Sulzby's study during the
kindergarten ... We propose that there is increasing need for programs preparing teachers to work
with ... can be a very pleasurable social event promoting parental-child interaction and bonding. ...

... Sexuality and Disability, 27, 35–47. ISI. Higham, S., Tönsing, KM, & Alant, E. (2010).
Teachers' interactions during storybook reading: A rural African perspective. Early
Education and Development, 21, 392–411. Hoffart, N. (1991). ...

... teachers who are not African American, who view the videotapes of similar interactions of students
in ... on in the day when children seek out the books shared during the read ... AAVE-related linguistic
components embedded in litera- ture, the teachers or teacher-researchers within ...

... The book concludes with a discussion of children's interviews within a wider perspective and
considers the potential clash between scientific thinking patterns developed at school and
everyday thinking, children's spontaneous questions, the teacher's role, and cooperation ...

... The study found that the greater part of the interactions between teachers and children were brief
and informal, and that the children were intuitively active and curious learners. It also found that
the highest levels of child involvement were recorded during paired and ...

... extension time should shed additional light on the role of children's social interactions and their ...
The daily routine in both classrooms included a storytime session, during which the teacher read ...
Both teachers taught about letter-sound associations on a weekly and daily basis by ...

... Abstract: Story length and plausibility were varied to see whether these factors significantly
affect children's ability to monitor their comprehension. A total of 19 third graders and 25 sixth
graders were individually read four stories in a counterbalanced order. ...

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... the learner in planning the sequence of instruction and in her interactions during the teaching ...
Sociocultural Perspectives on Children with Reading Difficulties 49 minorities”(1992) that
determine their relative ... the families knew and were able to do in order for teachers to build on ...

... skills, given emerging findings from work exploring child-by-instruction interactions in preschool ...
This study included two cohorts of teachers and children who participated during the 2005 ... The
teachers had, on average, 10.59 (SD = 8.97) years of experience teaching preschool. ...

... Peralta de Mendoza concluded that the style of the interaction was different depending on ... study
by Peralta and Salsa (2001), compared the strategies used during book reading ... Although these
findings provide evidence that SES influenced the storybook reading strategies that ...

... each teacher selected for data collection was observed for an hour during reading instruction
to ... In grades 2 and 3, telling as a teacher interaction style was negatively related to ... Teachers, like
their students, need appropriate scaffolding and active learning environments in order ...

... Bequests for known information during instances of con- flict talk appeared far more frequently ...
Such requests not only made the rules for nonverbal interaction explicit, they also provided ... For
example, teachers used these questions to instruct children in proper terms oi address ...

... Children engaging in storybook readings: The influence of access to print resources, opportunity ...
parents who are proficient readers appear to be more comfortable during reading than those ...
readers, making it easier for proficient readers to engage in conversational interactions. ...

... Edwards' (1989) experiences during this early training subsequently led her to develop the Parents ...
peer modeling experiences, and finally are observed in specific parent-child interactions around
storybook ... of them, and that her work with the primary grade teachers has been ...

... Page 237. Pre-service Teachers' Engagement with The Other Side 225 lected from several
sources: field notes from observations; transcripts of the interactions that occurred during the
various activities; ratings the partici- pants gave for their level of comfort after they ...

... coloured'school, which has existed since 1891 in Wynberg, Cape Town, an area
designated'coloured' during the apartheid ... We encourage oral, mother tongue and bilingual
interaction. When Teacher Ntombi speaks with the Xhosa speakers in Xhosa, and they to her, ...

... tions during storybook read-alouds, valuable learning experiences are promoted (Bus, 2001 ... 2.
They probably don't see that he wants to be a teacher when he grows ... interaction among four
distinct categories of variables: (a) the reader's background, (b) purposes, (c) interactive ...

... during the early childhood years, regardless of socioeconomic backgrounds. ... on particular aspects
of family and child lit- eracy, highlight the specificity of these interactions. ... ment and children's
emergent literacy, parents, day-care providers, and preschool teachers need to ...

... approximately sixty minutes. During each observation I focused on both the method of ... classroom
at a table and recorded both teacher and student interactions throughout the lesson. ... observations,
I took highly structured field notes on the selected students and teachers. ...

... Rush, KL 1999. Caregiver-child interactions and early literacy development of preschool children
from low-income environments. ... [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®] View all references). Teachers'
use of questions during book-reading sessions has received considerable ...

... Some 5-year-olds have had lit- tle interaction with written language; others are on ... Many teachers
encourage children to do book talks about what they are reading or to ... promote conversations
among the children about what they are reading not only during reading lessons, but ...

... has shown that children who have storybooks read to them during the pre ... are usually the first
and primary influence, with caregivers and teachers later extending ... to oral modes of discourse
develop language competence characterised by contextualised participant interaction. ...

... the same in all the classrooms, only the teaching styles should have been different. Students
and teachers working with curriculum were asked parallel questions about the various activities
and interactions they experience in their classrooms during reading instruction. ...

... historical development clearly reflected the racism, xenophobia, classism, and sexism that
prevailed during this era ... Reading tests are not unique in attracting criticism. ... surveyed conformed
to the recently published standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ...

... visits to complete intake paperwork, all subsequent visits are conducted in English by the teacher
(Minnesota Valley ... the child's native language (Spanish) or the child's second language (English)
effects verbal interactions during dialogic storybook reading that have ...

... lists of books and review chapters on family literacy, family literacy programs, early literacy
development, and storybook reading; examining the ... Interactions were analyzed. ... Audiotaping
and interviews occurred during two home visits when children were 3 and 4 years old. ...

... Parents reported that these trips afford interactions with unfamiliar adults (eg, librarians, parents
of other children) and the ... The stability of visual habituation during the first year of life ... A. van Kleeck,
SA Stahl & E. Bauer (Eds), On reading books to children: Parents and teachers (pp ...

... a de- scription of the exact format), recording incidences of parent-child interaction surrounding
books ... conscientious atti- tude toward books is expressed earnestly by Ms. Hidalgo during a
conversation ... to work this way…and if my daughter wants to become a teacher, then she ...

... 1 1: Introduction Picture a kindergarten classroom during language arts instruction. ... kindergarten?
Research Question 5. How have interactions with their child‟s school impacted ... teachers to move
beyond what is considered the dominant culture from the school‟s Page 25. 15 ...

... move toward increased professionalism. A complementary group of studies has
provided detailed descriptions of the interactions between teachers and students
during read-alouds. These studies have characterized ...

... poor African American parents and children in participating in successful one-one-one
book-reading interactions. ... Comments that parents shared with me during our parent–child
book-reading sessions also ... and I introduced a community book club to par- ents and teachers ...

... A second survey, administered face-to-face at school during the nutrition break, included ... in an
urban environment, and all parents describe their children's interactions with environmental ... child's
teacher, and purchasing or constructing materials requested by the teacher such as ...

... perhaps more closely reflects the types of textual inferencing that occur during storybook sharing
than ... in the control group simply due to one-on-one book-sharing interactions with an ... was
significantly greater when questions were asked about the novel words during the reading ...

... An ecological inventory was conducted with each primary caregiver during the course of a ...
contribute to the family code by providing meaning to patterned interactions”(p. 364). ... exclusive,
disempowering outcome of education is not readily acknowledged by teachers and school ...

... There are also certain places and times (activities) during a preschool day where narrative
activities are more likely to occur. These include circle time, book reading, mealtimes and other
teacher-led activities with smaller groups of children, or speaking with the child's ...

... child‐rearing practices, socioeconomic circumstances, family structures, adult‐child interactions,
educational environments ... rather that changes in these variables are observed particularly during
the preschool ... of reliability and validity and can be used by teachers or researchers. ...

... handbooks to children's storybooks, games, puzzles and other educational toys. ... reading provided
for the experimental group. Elley (1989) also indicated the benefits of repeated story book reading
by studying 168 ... Page 23. Teachers' interactions during storybook reading 26 ...

... During an interview with the principal it was discovered that the absence of either fiction or
non-fiction for browsing or ... at assessing the adequacy and appropriateness of formal literacy
instruction by way of direct observation of Grade One teacher-pupil interactions in five ...

... the relation between that intimate culture and the child's literacy development during the 5 ... such
as the child's family or school class; the mesosystem, representing interactions among different ...
but also by her enduring relationship with the child as parent, school teacher, or family ...

... actively taking fieldnotes on an Alpha Smart Pro (a portable word-processing device) and/or
audiotaping classroom interactions. During events in which I was directly involved either as a
teacher or as a co-actor ... Copyright © 1997 by the National Council of Teachers of English. ...

... During that time she has been involved in research related to language and literacy ... Contributors
xiii Mother-Child Interaction, and the Harvard Language Diversity Project, a subproject of ... with
young children, called Dialogic Reading, widely used by parents and teachers in the ...

... Analyses of interactions during storybook reading episodes reveal a middle-class literate pattern
in which caretakers use ... not sufficient for this type of learning; there must be interaction with a ... If
teachers assumed a certain level of visual perception development (and the Pakeha ...

... Although home visits are a useful idea, teachers must be cognizant of the power issues that can
surface during these interactions. ... Sometimes during Sunday School the students would share
some of the problems that they were having with teachers, administrators and ...

... During the course of this preliminary investigation, I conducted and audiotaped weekly ... complete
with teachers' guides that feature explicit questions and expected student answers. ... development
ultimately depends on social interaction with those who are more knowledgeable. ...

... 6 Teaching and knowing 120 What teachers know 122 Time, coverage, pacing and sequencing
125 Pygmalion effect and teacher expectations 129 ... Whether the results emerge from small-scale
in-depth studies of children's reading and writing in remote rural schools in ...

... How do dialogically responsive teachers interact with students during literacy instruction? ...
What are the perceptions of students and teachers about the ways in which their verbal
interactions support or fail to support liter- acy learning? Methods ...

... reading and math achieve- ment) and social outcomes (eg, social competence with peers and
teachers). ... Interactions with peo- ple other than parents (eg, grandparents, friends) are also
important for ... in everyday activities, an emphasis was placed on using these during toy play ...

... The differential effect of storybook reading on preschoolers' acquisition of expressive and receptive
vocabulary ... The purpose of the observations was to record student-teacher interactions and to
develop a detailed ... and to capture more data than could be collected during one visit ...

... to expand our understanding of readiness for literacy, we may relegate some students to almost
certain failure during the early ... show that they often get labeled" disadvantaged," when evaluated
in the preschool or school by their teachers and by their interactions with adults ...

... Were teachers simply trying to scaffold students in low reading groups to use a cue ... cue use
patterns before interruptions look the same as teachers' cue use during their interruptions? ... district
in the southeast and focused on four multi-age primary teachers' interactions with their ...

... Inc., Princeton, NJ, and Columbia University's Center for Children and Families, Teachers College,
in ... & Painter, 1998; Hoff, 2003) and maternal verbal skills and verbal interactions with their ... How
many children's books do children in these families have access to during the first ...

... Thomas directed most of his comments to the ex- perimenter or teachers during baseline sessions
and ... Thomas showed a gradual increase in dura- tion of social engagement during the first ... an
ongoing reinforcement program in an attempt to increase his interaction with peers. ...

... This trend was very clear in Karagwe, where a number of private primary schools were established
during this period and the number of tuition classes, mainly in ... Although teachers mainly interact
in Runyambo between themselves, teacherÁpupil interaction is almost ...

... Public libraries often develop voluntary pro- grams during the summer as part of such efforts. ...
viewed re- sponse as a result of mental, emotional, intellectual, sensory, and physical interactions. ...
These areas of research are important if teachers are to be effective in organizing ...

... style variables in order to determine the precise effect of adults' mediation during storybook
reading or used ... a limited set of approaches to reading books typically used by preschool teachers,”
as concluded ... their goal is to closely de- scribe the nature of the interaction itself, and ...

... These classes were scheduled either during the day for parents with small children requiring ...
These informal interactions might take the form of a school-based ESL class, a ... in this study
reported that they willingly signed homework, talked to teachers informally, volunteered at ...

... The early childhood educators seemed to be viewed as extended family members with a ... were
very small, as they were considered temporary accommodation for families during the harvesting ...
Parent–child interactions Tables 1 and 2 provide the types of reading and writing ...

... The teachers and their parents occupied a variety of roles during their participation in family ... the
teachers' homes did not preclude the absence of caregiver-child literacy-based interactions. ... A
constructivist view of preservice teachers' attitudes toward read- ing through case study ...

... in reading centre around using textual clues to engage in meaning construction during reading;
these problems ... 7s came from more advantaged homes, many, according to their teacher, came
from ... came from homes in which ac- cess to books and storybook reading was more ...

... and videotaped segments of classes provide documentation of participants (including teachers)
reactions to ... impatient with her daughter and had a persistent tendency to dominate the interactions.
For example, during a lesson on the seasons, the following interchanges took ...

... Knowledge of storybooks as a predictor of young children's vocabulary.. ... Reading
Teacher , 39: 924–930. ... Predicting kindergarten academic skills: Interactions among
child care, maternal education, and family literacy environment.. ...

... the African American students, preventing her from collaborating successfully with these students
during sharing time. ... Such interactions also help the teacher see the great variety of interpretations
that may be generated by a single question and they remind teachers of the ...