dialogic reading

girl and mother playing and retelling story

Supporting Your Children’s and Teen’s Home Learning: Combine Reading Aloud With Guided Play to Develop Listening Comprehension Skills

By:

Anna Gibbs, Ph.D.

Posted on: December 14, 2021

Retelling a story with household items and conversation facilitates use of listening comprehension skills.

Mother and son reading on the couch together

Dialogic Reading: Having a Conversation about Books

By:

Jessica Sidler Folsom, Ph.D.

Posted on: January 3, 2017

When facilitated with various levels of questions, dialogic reading encourages an interactive dialogue about a text being read by an adult to children.

Dialogic Reading: Part 2

By:

Tracy Donohue

Posted on: March 31, 2016

How to help your child focus on important reading skills while discussing a text using the CROWD strategy.

Dialogic Reading for Families: Part 1

By:

Tracy Donohue

Posted on: March 24, 2016

Use of the PEER strategy during read alouds to help children build vocabulary and make connections.

Which Books are Best?

By:

Tracy Donohue

Posted on: December 4, 2015

When you are reading to your child, how do you know which types of books are best? This is a question I ask myself regularly. How do I know I am reading the right types of books to my children? Previously, I wrote about the resource from our Collection that helps children choose books that are “just right” for them.