Read Sept 23, 2013.
Nonfiction: interactive story-sharing.
Excellent
parenting/professional guide discussing how reading and literacy and
oral language skills improve children's mental stats, their ability to
learn, and their emotional skills, metacognition, and theory of mind.
Not a bad slate of improvements for a fairly simple
technique - involving the child in telling (or sharing) a recitation of
story - either from actual books (from wordless picture-books on up
through adult-level fiction and nonfiction) or from telling and
re-telling stories of your own family (from the time you went to the
zoo, to the time grandpa ended up in the hospital) or from allowing the
child to create stories of their own (from fictional "and then I grew
wings and flew to the moon" to chapters-long created adventures cribbed
from Star Wars or Warhammer.
Nice balance between scientific study and
child-development milestones (listed at the end of each chapter with
real-life implications and indications) and actual transcripts of kids
and parents/researchers using the techniques with actual kids (some of
whom we see over and over again between infancy and teenagerhood). Very
interesting resource, but not complicated enough or profound enough to
feel like I need to own it.
If you're already devoted to literacy and language
skills, it's pretty much a simplified and straightforward set of
examples to make sure you're loading as much language into every
encounter with your kids as is humanly possible. Knowing my husband and
me, I doubt that's going to be a problem.
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