List Books » Let's Read Together: Improving Literacy Outcomes with the Adult/Child Interactive Reading Inventory (ACIRI)
Authors: Andrea DeBruin
ISBN-13: 9781557667625, ISBN-10: 1557667624
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Co., Inc.
Date Published: November 2006
Edition: BK&CD-ROM
Everyone knows how important it is to read to young children but it’s the quality of shared reading that really affects emergent literacy. How well are adults engaging and teaching children as they read together? How well are children listening and responding?
The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions during joint book reading, ACIRI helps parents promote the development of emergent literacy skills, helps early childhood educators improve and individualize their teaching of these skills, and helps family literacy programs provide evaluation data that demonstrates their practices are effective. Grounded in scientifically based reading research and extensively field tested, ACIRI
This manual includes everythingprograms need to use ACIRI effectively the complete photocopiable tool in English and Spanish, the intervention activities, detailed information on the behaviors assessed, technical data, and extended case stories on interactive reading programs. With this one-of-a-kind assessment and intervention tool, literacy programs will prove their effectiveness and adults will improve children’s critical early experiences with books.
The CD-ROM Includes: