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ABOUT THE BOOK
The role of parent-child and teacher-child shared story telling and storybook reading is a key vehicle for supporting children's development of emergent literacy and early language skills. This highly usable and practical book brings the advantages of sharing books and stories to educational and clinical settings, effectively demonstrating how it may be used to support:

• print knowledge
• phonological awareness
• vocabulary
• inferential language abilities
• grammatical and narrative skills

With contributions from notable scholars who actively conduct research in the areas of education, developmental psychology, speech language pathology, reading, and early literacy, this unique resource synthesizes and applies current theory and research on uses of sharing books and stories in educational and intervention contexts.

CONTENTS

• Introduction.
• Fostering Skills Related to Decoding Print.
• Fostering phonological awareness.
• Fostering Print Awareness through Interactive Shared Reading.
• Fostering alphabet knowledge using alphabet books.
• Fostering language skills.
• Optimizing the effects of shared reading on early language skills.
• Bringing Words to Life: Optimizing Book Reading Experiences to Develop Vocabulary in Young Children.
• Fostering inferential language during book sharing with preschoolers: A foundation for later reading comprehension strategies.
• Fostering narrative and grammatical skills with "syntax stories."
• Preschool, childcare, and family settings.
• Cultural issues in promoting dialogic book sharing in the families of preschoolers.
• Interaction is Key: Pulling it all together in inclusive early care and education.

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

AUDIENCE
Primary: Speech-Language Pathology

1. Clinical Approaches to Emergent Literacy Intervention
   Laura M. Justice, Ph.D.
2. Assessment in Emergent Literacy
   Khara Pence
3. Early Literacy Foundations (ELF)
   University of Queensland through the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
4. Phonological Awareness for Literacy (PAL)
   University of Queensland Through the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences