Course Details

Actively Involving Children in Reading

Course ID 77892

Child Care Support Network

(715) 258-2448

Description

Dialogic reading – also referred to as interactive reading – enhances language skills through interactive picture book reading. It is innovative in that young children learn to become storytellers. Done well, dialogic reading not only improves emergent literacy, but it is fun and may even foster a love of reading.

2.00 Hours

Course Level

Formal

General Continuing Education

Course Category

Early Childhood

Formal Approved

(2 Hours)

CDA Content Areas

Principles of child development and learning (2 Hours)

Infant Mental Health Core Competency Areas

Family Child Care Home Provider

Child Care Center Staff

Head Start/Early Head Start

Public School Teachers

School Age

Home Based Service Provider

Center Based Service Provider

Infants (0-12 months)

Toddlers (13-24 months)

Two's (25-36 months)

Preschooler 3's (37-48 months)

Preschool 4's and 5's (49-72 months)

Goals and Objectives

The objectives of this training are to: 1) explain the term “dialogic reading”; 2) describe why it’s a creative instructional method that promotes preschoolers’ language skills; 3) offer examples off using dialogic reading methods in the classroom.

There are no events currently scheduled for this course.