How Children Become the Storyteller
Most of us know that reading to children is important. But how we
read to children is also important. When most adults share a book with a
preschooler, they read and the child listens. However, with dialogic reading,
(interactive reading) the adult helps the child become the teller of the story. The adult
becomes the listener, the questioner, the audience for the child.
An article by Reading Rockets notes “children who have been read to dialogically are substantially ahead of children who have been read to traditionally on tests of language development. Children can jump ahead by several months in just a few weeks of dialogic reading.”
If book sharing is not intuitive for parents, they would benefit by observing a library story time where library staff demonstrate how books can be used comfortably as a basis for conversation and learning.
An article by Reading Rockets notes “children who have been read to dialogically are substantially ahead of children who have been read to traditionally on tests of language development. Children can jump ahead by several months in just a few weeks of dialogic reading.”
If book sharing is not intuitive for parents, they would benefit by observing a library story time where library staff demonstrate how books can be used comfortably as a basis for conversation and learning.
