Topic: Storybook Reading Style in Kindergarten
10-second review: The storybook reading style of six kindergarten teachers differed markedly. The influences of these different reading styles on children should be studied further.
Title: “Teacher Storybook Reading Style: A Comparison of Six Teachers.” MG Martinez and WH Teale. Research in the Teaching of English (May 1993), pp. 175-199,
Quote: “Storybook reading, the event in which an adult reads a storybook to an individual child or to a group of children, is widely recommended by educators as an activity of central importance to a young child’s literacy development.”
Quote: “Studies have shown, for example, that storybook reading is positively related to vocabulary development, level of language development, early reading (the ability to read…before going to school), and children’s eagerness to read, and is a significant predictor of young children’s subsequent development as readers….”
Comment: Always good to know that what we always took for granted is indeed true. RayS.
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