Shared Book Reading – study resources

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Templates for each of three behaviors, including specific books used:

Behavior 1 – teaching print concepts 

  • Print Concepts 
    • Front and back of book (point to) 
    • Title 
      • Where is it 
      • What do you think this says? 
    • Author and illustrator information 
    • Directionality
      • Where do I begin to read 
      • Which direction do I read (left to right) 
      • Which page to start on (left or right) 
      • Top vs. Bottom of pages 
  • Five cues to use (Justice & Ezell, 2004) – these cues will be used for all three behaviors; below are examples of how to use the cues for teaching print concepts  
    • Nonverbal print references (2 cues) 
      • Pointing to print – point to the title of the book
      • Tracking print – using finger to track print from left to right.  
    • Verbal print references (3 cues) 
      • Questions about print – (Pointing to the title on the cover): What do you think this says? 
      • Comments about print – This is the first word on the page, I’m going to start reading here 
      • Requests about print – help me figure out which page to start on (left or right) 
  • Behavior 1 books: 
    • Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type by Dorren Cronin 
    • Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neil  
    • Blob by Anne Appert 

 

Behavior 2 – teaching that print has meaning   

  • Print Meaning: talk about print as an object of meaning; the meaning of contextualized print in illustrations and the metalinguistic concept of reading (Zucker et al., 2009) 
    • Speech bubbles and quotes tell us a character is talking 
    • Changes in font  
    • Size, shape, formatting (e.g., bold, italics), location, orientation, or color tell us about volume, emotion, action 
    • Question marks and exclamation points tell us the kind of sentence the character/ narrator is saying 
  • Five cues to use (Justice & Ezell, 2004) – these cues will be used for all three behaviors; below are examples of how to use the cues for teaching that print has meaning   
    • Nonverbal print references (2 cues)  
      • Pointing to print – point to the speech bubble, which shows that the character is talking  
      • Tracking print – using finger to track print orientation, shape, size 
    • Verbal print references (3 cues)  
      • Questions about print – What do you think this says? (pointing to a speech bubble) 
      • Comments about print – Wow, this word is really big! I think [character] might be [yelling/ happy/ mad].  
      • Requests about print – Can you show me where the [character] is talking? (child should point to speech bubble, or quotes) 
  • Behavior 2 books:  
    • I Stink! By Kate & Jim McMullan  
    • Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson  
    • There is a Monster at the End of this book  

Behavior 3 – teaching letter and word knowledge 

  • Letter & Word knowledge (Justice & Ezell, 2004) 
    • Features and names of letters 
    • Differences between letters 
      • Focus on letters in their own name 
      • Letters make up words 
      • Connections between letters and words (C is for Candy) 
    • Word knowledge – talk about printed words 
      • Understanding word boundaries (where one word stops and another starts) 
      • Counting words 
      • Long words vs. short words 
  • Five cues to use (Justice & Ezell, 2004) – these cues will be used for all three behaviors; below are examples of how to use the cues for letter and word knowledge   
    • Nonverbal print references (2 cues)  
      • Pointing to print – point to the individual letters/ words  
      • Tracking print – using finger to track long words and short words 
    • Verbal print references (3 cues)  
        • Questions about print – How many words are on this page?  How many letters are in this word? 
        • Comments about print – See how this letter ‘S’ is squiggly? (Justice & Ezell, 2004). Look at how the Capital B has two “bumps” and the lower case ‘b’ has one bump. 
        • Requests about print – Show me a long/ short word on this page.  Show me the first/ second/ last word on this page. Show me the space between two words 
  • Behavior 3 books:  
    • In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming 
    • Crankenstein by Samantha Berger 
    • Tiny T-Rex and the Impossible Hug by Jonathan Stutzman 

 

List of all books used:

PWPA Books:

Intervention books:

  • Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type by Dorren Cronin 
  • Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neil  
  • Blob by Anne Appert 
  • I Stink! By Kate & Jim McMullan  
  • Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson  
  • There is a Monster at the End of this book  
  • In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming 
  • Crankenstein by Samantha Berger 
  • Tiny T-Rex and the Impossible Hug by Jonathan Stutzman 

 

 

 

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