M05 Activity 2: Dialogic Reading

Overview

We would all probably agree that reading with infants and toddlers is important, but what is the best way to read with them? To encourage caregivers to see that reading should be about more than just the words on pages, reading with infants and toddlers is best perceived as an interaction between the caregiver, the child and the book. Perceiving book reading as more of an interaction is oftentimes referred to as dialogic reading. Dialogic reading uses techniques that encourage the caregiver to be responsive to the child with conversations that follow the childs interest and lead. Dialogic reading typically involves recasts, expansions, and open-ended questions, all of which have been shown to have a positive impact on a child’s language development.

The acronym CROWD stands for five recommended prompts. These are the five dialogic reading strategies you will be using for this assignment:

Completions

Example: Five little monkeys jumping on the _____. The child fills in bed to participate in completing the thought.

Recalls

Example: What happens after the wolf huffs and puffs? The child recalls the story and puts that into their own words.

Open questions

Example: Tell me what is happening in this picture. The child practices putting their own thoughts into words.

Wh-questions

Example: What is that? Why is that happening? At many different levels children can put their thoughts into words.

Distancing questions

Example: What happened when we made your birthday cake? Children remember past events and relate them to the present and future.

In this activity, you will practice implementing dialogic reading strategies into a story, imagining that you are reading with infants and toddlers. This activity meets unit objectives by integrating dialogic reading strategies into the pages of a children’s book to create a version that is more interactive and supportive of early language development in infants and toddlers.

Instructions

1 Watch

2 Open and download “Dialogic Strategies: Book Pages” Once you open it, go to “file”, “download” and then download the presentation file as “Microsoft Powerpoint” **I attached it**

3 “Dialogic Strategies: Book Pages” is a book presented as twelve slides, each slide is one page of the book. For each of the twelve pages, I have added a text box on the slide that has two parts. The first part says “Dialogic Strategy name” and the second part says “Dialogic Strategy quote”. For the first part, all you need to do is select one of the five dialogic strategies and provide the name of the strategy you will use for each page. For the second part, demonstrate how you could implement the specific strategy for each page when reading with infants/toddlers. Think of this second part as a quote, like what you would actually say when reading with a young child. Write the quote out.

4 On each of the twelve pages, pick one of the five dialogic strategies to use and provide a quote demonstrating how it could be used while reading. Make sure your quote demonstrates the dialogic reading strategy and is about the specific page of the book it references.

5 Each page must have one dialogic reading strategy and quote and you must use each of the five strategies at least twice (there are 12 pages, so two strategies will be used three times).

6 When you have completed the assignment, by adding in a dialogic reading strategy and quote for each page, make sure you save the file to your computer.

Grading Criteria

Did student provide the name of the dialogic reading strategy for each of the 12 pages? (12 points)

Did student provide a quote, implementing the strategy for each of the 12 pages? (12 points)

For each of the 12 quotes, did the student use each of the five strategies at least twice and is each strategy about the specific page it is on? (12 points)

Video explanation for completing this assignment: