Reading with children provides valuable opportunities for enriching vocabulary, comprehension, and conversation. Viewers will learn strategies for maximizing these foundational skills through shared book reading. They will also find out how to increase children's understanding of concepts of print, how books work, and the wonders of letters and words on a page. Activities from the online BUILDING BLOCKS program that can help prepare children to become motivated, equipped, and successful readers will be demonstrated.

1. BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY®
Webinar Series
March 29, April 23, May 3, and May 17, 2012
View the prerecorded
Shared Book Reading webinar
at
www.getreadytoread.org

2. Blanche Podhajski, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
President, Stern Center for Language and Learning
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Vermont College of Medicine
bpodhajski@sterncenter.org
Brenda Buzzell, M.Ed.
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY®
Instructor and Program Coordinator
bbuzzell@sterncenter.org

3. Shared Book Reading
emphasizing Vocabulary
Speech to Print
Phonological Connection
Awareness including Alphabet Knowledge
A research-based and research-proven
professional learning program
for early care and education providers

4. Effective Instruction for Preschool Children
Builds skills
within developmentally
appropriate fun-filled
Engaging activities

5. www.buildingblocksforliteracy.org

6. Meets National Child Development
Associate (CDA) credential for
Physical and Intellectual Development
Counts towards
NAEYC and NAFCC
accreditations
Aligns with the Head Start Child Development and
Early Learning Framework
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY® certificate for 12 hours
of Professional Learning is available for $50.

7. BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY®
Supporting Early Childhood Education through Professional Development
Free & Online
For
 Early care and education providers
 Parents
Videos  Teaching Examples  Interactive Format
www.buildingblocksforliteracy.org
Developed by Blanche Podhajski, Ph.D., Nancy Clements, M.A., CCC-SLP,
Brenda Buzzell, M.Ed., and Marilyn Varrichio, M.Ed.

8. Welcome to
SHARED
BOOK
READING
WEBINAR 2
April 23, 2012
1:00 EST
Thanks to generous grant support.

10. BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY®
Shared book reading is:
Reading books
Talking about books
Interacting with books
Children learn how to use books
Front and back
Left to right
Top to bottom
Children learn that printed words are symbols for spoken words!

11. Reading to young children was
found to have a moderate
impact on oral language and
print awareness…
National Early Literacy Panel, 2007
…but it did not have a significant
influence on phonological awareness,
alphabet knowledge, concepts about
print or readiness.
National Early Literacy Panel, 2007
These concepts need to be taught!

12. Shared Book Reading may look like:
Reading with a friend
A small or large group big book story time
Singing a song from a song chart
Sharing a morning message
Shared Book Reading
also may be called:
Read Alouds
Dialogic Reading
Interactive Book Reading

13. BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY®
Shared Book Reading is more than Book Reading
Book Reading versus Shared Book Reading
The adult reads The child assists
the book to the child. in telling the story.
The adult is the center The child and the adult share
in the process. the reading process.
(Kadlic, M., & Lesiak, M. (2003)

14. Reading With Preschoolers
Remember Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development
ZPD
while talking about books with preschoolers.
Use “Wh” questions to assist in their development:
What Where Who When Why
Follow the children’s interests,
which will vary widely from child to child.
Expect slightly more of each child each time
you read the book.
Keep the interaction light and fun,
not a test of what the child has learned.
Adapted from Burns, M., & Griffin, P., & Snow, C., Eds.
(1999). Starting Out Right.

15.
Shared Book Reading Shared
is the soil
Book
from which
language blossoms! Reading

16. Shared Book Reading
Strategies
Text Talk, PEER, CROWD, 3S
Building Vocabulary, Comprehension, Conversation

17. “When readers or listeners understand less than 90% of the
words in text, they are likely to lose the meaning of that
text.” (Beimiller, 2000)
MOREOVER, to comprehend, a student must know the
meanings of 90 to 95 percent of the words being read.
(Lyon, 2009)
“Listening and speaking competence is in advance of reading
and writing competence.” (Beck et al., 2002)

18. SOURCE: Meaningful Differences by Hart and Risley
32 Million Word Difference!
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah-ch1-pg3.htm

19. Website Course Animated Module on Text Talk

20. Website Course Text Talk
Tiered Vocabulary

21. Website Course
Participant Activity:
Selecting Tiered Vocabulary

22. Tiered Vocabulary Activity Sample

23. Website Family Forum Video: A $50 Word

24. Website Course Animated Module
The PEER sequence:
a strategy for building comprehension
during shared book reading

25. Website Course Animated Module
The CROWD sequence:
a strategy for building vocabulary and comprehension
during shared book reading

26. Website Family Forum Video: Duck in a Truck

27. The 3S Strategy
for building comprehension and conversation
S See
Look at a specific feature of the book.
S Show
“Show” an object or word on a page.
S Say
“Say” a word or answer a question.

28. Website Family Forum
Video Illustrating 3S: Kitten’s First Full Moon

29. Shared Book Reading
Increases vocabulary
Builds comprehension
Develops conversation

30. Thank you for joining us!
View the prerecorded
Shared Book Reading webinar
at
www.getreadytoread.org
Please visit
www.buildingblocksforliteracy.org