Book Smart
Subtitle: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers
By: Anne E. Cunningham, PhD., Jamie Zibulsky, PhD
Contributors: Zibulsky, Jamie, author
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780199383924; 9780199843930
Subjects: Developmental; Language; Storytelling; Language acquisition; Parent participation; General; Books and reading; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Oral reading; Life Stages; Elementary; EDUCATION; Lifespan Development; Children; PSYCHOLOGY
Description: Authored by two passionate psychologists and educators, Book Smart: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers is a how-to guide rich with stories, lessons, activities, and ideas aimed at supporting reading development and addressing the broad range of interpersonal, social, emotional, and motivational skills that can be fostered by reading with young children. The early chapters in this book will help you get your child ready for school and ready to read, and the later chapters will help you foster your child's lifelong love of reading. Throughout the book, the authors also prov.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; BOOK SMART; Copyright; CONTENS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; Introduction to Shared Reading; Chapter 1 The Role of Oral Language in Reading Development: How Language Skills Lead to Literacy Skills; Talking and Reading: Some Similarities; Semantic Development; Syntactic Development; Pragmatic Language Development; Chapter 2 Emergent Literacy: The Roots of Reading; Phonological Awareness; Concepts of Print; Alphabetic Knowledge; Chapter 3 Learning to Write How Writing Makes Your Child a Better Reader and Thinker; Writing Development; Spelling Development; Chapter 4 Story Comprehension.; title: Story SchemaCausal Reasoning; INFERENTIAL THINKING; Chapter 5 The Effects of Reading Volume Vocabulary and Knowledge Growth; The Relationship Between Reading Volume and Vocabulary; Th e Relationship Between Reading Volume and General Knowledge; Chapter 6 The Social and Emotional Benefi ts of Reading Together; A Healthy Sense of Self; Motivation and Mastery Mindset; Perspective-Taking and Empathy; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Glossary; Index.