An Engagement ‐Focused Framework for Evaluating Storybooks for Young Children's Science Vocabulary Learning
AbstractGiven the emerging evidence on the importance of learning content-specific vocabulary in the early years, many early childhood teachers try to incorporate science vocabulary teaching as part of classroom activities. In this article, the authors argue for the importance of teaching science vocabulary in engaging ways using read-aloud and the usefulness of narrative informational storybooks as an engaging tool to introduce and build science concept knowledge and vocabulary. The authors show how to evaluate and select texts that can be effectively used for explicit and embedded teaching of science vocabulary, based on...
Source: Reading Teacher - June 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Seung ‐Hee Claire Son,
Margaret Osgood Opatz,
Elisabeth Dibble Rush Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
Scaffolding Writing During an Inquiry Workshop
This article describes two teachers' processes of scaffolding during an inquiry workshop. This is followed by suggestions and examples for implementing inquiry and scaffolded writing in school-based classrooms. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - June 26, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Lucy K. Spence,
Ayan Mitra,
Abby Easterday,
Celina ‐Maria Espinosa Tags: Teaching and Learning Guide Source Type: research
An Engagement ‐Focused Framework for Evaluating Storybooks for Young Children's Science Vocabulary Learning
AbstractGiven the emerging evidence on the importance of learning content-specific vocabulary in the early years, many early childhood teachers try to incorporate science vocabulary teaching as part of classroom activities. In this article, the authors argue for the importance of teaching science vocabulary in engaging ways using read-aloud and the usefulness of narrative informational storybooks as an engaging tool to introduce and build science concept knowledge and vocabulary. The authors show how to evaluate and select texts that can be effectively used for explicit and embedded teaching of science vocabulary, based on...
Source: Reading Teacher - June 26, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Seung ‐Hee Claire Son,
Margaret Osgood Opatz,
Elisabeth Dibble Rush Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
Scaffolding Writing During an Inquiry Workshop
This article describes two teachers' processes of scaffolding during an inquiry workshop. This is followed by suggestions and examples for implementing inquiry and scaffolded writing in school-based classrooms. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - June 26, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Lucy K. Spence,
Ayan Mitra,
Abby Easterday,
Celina ‐Maria Espinosa Tags: Teaching and Learning Guide Source Type: research
Singing in Preschool Promotes Literacy Development
This article reports major findings that showed substantial developments in preschool student's understanding of print concepts after just 2 weeks of singing a shared text. Additionally, we comment on the joyfulness that song can bring into the early childhood classroom. Based on these findings, we suggest engaging students in repeated singing of a shared text as an instructional approach for teaching concepts of print to preschool st udents. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - June 26, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Abbey Galeza,
Timothy Rasinski Tags: Teaching and Learning Guide Source Type: research
Supporting Inferential Comprehension in the Preschool Classroom: The Roles of Theory of Mind and Executive Skills
AbstractAlthough much is known about supporting preschoolers' alphabet knowledge, less is known about instructional moves that support preschoolers' narrative comprehension or how preschoolers' developing cognitive skills may support their narrative comprehension development. This school-university partnership project examined relations of preschoolers' Theory of Mind (i.e., social understanding) and executive function skills to narrative comprehension development in three instructional contexts: inferential, interactive vocabulary-focused, and typical instruction in preschool classrooms. Structured, inferential comprehens...
Source: Reading Teacher - June 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Andrea DeBruin ‐Parecki,
Kelly B. Cartwright Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
A Roadmap for Working with Children Who Are Immigrants or Refugees
AbstractAs the number of children who are immigrants or refugees continues to grow due to a variety of issues taking place around the world, i.e., war, political unrest, famine, and persecution, how do schools meet their needs? The article provides advice on working with children who are immigrants or refugees and the importance of viewing them through an asset-based lens. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - June 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Julia L ópez‐Robertson Tags: Viewpoint Source Type: research
2022 Notable Books for a Global Society Research Award Winner: Heroes among us: Refugees and Immigrants in Award ‐Winning Children's Literature
AbstractIn this column, we invited the ILA Children's Literature and Reading Special Interest Group (CLR SIG)'s 2022 NBGS Research Award Winner, Jan Lacina, to share some of the work she conducted with the NBGS award-winning books. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - June 21, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Jan Lacina Tags: Column Source Type: research
Elevating Poetry Writing with Southeast Asian Refugee Children's Picture Books
AbstractIn this column, we demonstrate ways to connect four commonly taught poetic genres to better explore the intersectionalities (The University of Chicago Legal Forum;140:139 –167, 1989;Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, 1990) in the texts and students ’ own lives through two cultural insider-created (A map into the world, 2019;Wishes, 2021) Southeast Asian (SEA) children's picturebooks about the refugee experience. In doing so, we show how students can write poetry as maps and wishes with picturebooks about the maps and wishes in the lives of SEA refugees. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - May 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Victoria Gill,
Grace Enriquez Tags: Column Source Type: research
