Sharing Books and Stories to Promote Language and Literacy

Anne van Kleeck, Ph.D. Anne van Kleeck, Ph.D., Professor and Callier Research Scholar, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Callier Center for Communication Disorders.

• Foreword by Laura M. Justice About the Editor Contributors Introduction A Matter of Emphasis: Different Ways to Share Books and Stories to Foster Different Language and Literacy Skills, Anne van Kleeck Section I: Fostering Skills Related to Decoding Print Fostering Phonological Awareness Using Shared Book Reading and an Embedded Explicit Approach, Lisa Hammett Price and Kendall Young Ruscher Fostering Print Awareness Through Interactive Shared Reading, Anita McGinty, Amy Sofka, Margaret Sutton, and Laura Justice Fostering Letter Knowledge in Prereaders During Book Sharing: New Perspectives and Cultural Issues, Anne van Kleeck Section II: Fostering Language Skills and Promoting Text Comprehension Optimizing the Effects of Shared Reading on Early Language Skills, Colleen E. Huebner Cultural Issues in Promoting Interactive Book Sharing in the Families of Preschoolers, Anne van Kleeck Bringing Words to Life: Optimizing Book Reading Experiences to Develop Vocabulary in Young Children, Annemarie H. Hindman and Barbara A. Wasik Fostering Inferential Language During Book Sharing with Prereaders: A Foundation for Later Text Comprehension Strategies, Anne van Kleeck Fostering Narrative and Grammatical Skills with "Syntax Stories", Lizbeth H. Finestack, Marc E. Fey, Shari Baron Sokol, Sophie Ambrose, and Lori A. Swanson Index

Jane Oates, SLT, Bulletin, Journal of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, (2008): "...Practical and highly usable... I recommend van Kleeck's own explicit strategy for developing inferencing..."