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 Learn More About This Book: Table of Contents Related Titles: Shared Storybook Reading: Building Young Children's Language and Emergent Literacy Skills Ladders to Literacy: A Preschool Activity Book, Second Edition |
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Let's Read Together The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions during joint book reading, ACIRI helps parents promote the development of emergent literacy skills, helps early childhood educators improve and individualize their teaching of these skills, and helps family literacy programs provide evaluation data that demonstrates their practices are effective. Grounded in scientifically based reading research and extensively field tested, ACIRI
This manual includes everything programs need to use ACIRI effectively — the complete photocopiable tool in English and Spanish, the intervention activities, detailed information on the behaviors assessed, technical data, and extended case stories on interactive reading programs. With this one-of-a-kind assessment and intervention tool, literacy programs will prove their effectiveness and adults will improve children’s critical early experiences with books.
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STORYBOOKS AVAILABLE AS A PACKAGE See the sets of books in English or Spanish. |
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Table of Contents Contents of the CD-ROM Section I: Assessment of Interactive Reading
Section II: Adult–Child Interactive Reading Inventory (ACIRI)
Section III: Linked Activities to Foster Family Literacy Category I: Enhancing Attention to Text Behavior 1: Maintaining Physical Proximity Behavior 2: Sustaining Interest and Attention Behavior 3: Holding the Book and Turning Pages Behavior 4: Displaying a Sense of Audience Category II: Promoting Interactive Reading and Supporting Comprehension Behavior 1: Posing and Soliciting Questions Behavior 2: Identifying and Understanding Pictures and Words Behavior 3 Relating Content to Personal Experiences Behavior 4: Pausing to Answer Questions Category III: Using Literacy Strategies Behavior 1: Identifying Visual Cues Behavior 2: Predicting What Happens Next Behavior 3: Recalling Information Behavior 4: Elaborating on Ideas Afterword Appendix A: Statistical Support for the ACIRI Appendix B Family Literacy Programs Case Study Appendix C: Helpful Books and Web Sites
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