What's the idea?
Reading with young children is an important activity to support early language and literacy, and how we share books with children can magnify its impact. During shared reading, adults and children talk about and around the book, rather than focus just on the text. The adult encourages children to play an active, rather than passive role. There are different approaches to shared reading: Dialogic reading involves having a dialogue around the text, with the adult asking questions to help deeper understanding. There is a structured approach based on a PEER sequence (Prompt, Evaluate, Expand, Repeat) and using a range of prompts.
Shared book reading involves an adult sharing a book and using comments, prompts and questions to engage the children and encourage them to take a more active role.
What does it mean?
Reading provides lots of opportunities for children to hear new vocabulary embedded in varied grammatical sentences and promotes joint attentio
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