Before Words: Wordless Picture Books and the Development of Reading in Young Children

Before Words: Wordless Picture Books and the Development of Reading in Young Children
ISBN-10
0807759163
ISBN-13
9780807759165
Category
Education
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2018-10-05
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Author
Judith T. Lysaker

Description

In this book, the author challenges reductive views of emergent literacy prevalent in many of today's kindergarten and pre-K classrooms. As an alternative, Lysaker explains how reading wordless books with young children helps them to develop a range of comprehension abilities that are important for understanding narrative texts. Readers will find concrete methods to help them gauge, document, and respond to children as they make meaning of and respond to wordless books. Through description and analysis, the text reveals the undervalued richness of young children's emergent comprehension and the intricate, purposeful nature of their specific early thinking activities. Before Words encourages readers to think about young children's comprehension as complex meaning-making and suggests new ways of responding to the unique sense making tools young children use during wordless book reading. Book Features: demonstrates how young children develop reading comprehension abilities even before learniing to read print; expands on reading as more than just a technical skill; engages the whole child and scaffolds their formaiton of relationships with other people, including peers, teachers, families, and communities; nurtures students' creativity, positive relationsips with storytelling, and social emotional growth.

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