How Reading Emerges

1. Choose a book and evaluate it using the checklist in figure 9.2 in your text. Evaluate the effectiveness of the book, and tell how you would use the book with young children. How would you encourage parents to apply each of the nine read-aloud suggestions Tracey has made to improve the quality of reading a book such as this to children? Be specific.

Choosing predictable multicultural books are helpful with the development of reading skills. There are so many different books to suggest for children. Children enjoy reading books that has repetitive and rhyming words. Stories that have repetitive words allow children to remember the words. Multicultural books have cumulative episodes. Books with cumulative episodes have words that children being to memorize and they begin to say them on their own. Parents should read to children and show the pictures in the book to the child because “pictures clearly illustrate words, lines, and episodes” (Beaty & Pratt, 2011). Parents may teach their children how sequential patterns. For example, in book Chicka Chika Boom Boom children are able to say what letter comes next.

Parents can be encouraged to read their children favorite books. Reading the same book over and over allow children to gain certain skills. Children learn the order of the story. Children are able to keep up when their parents are reading stories. Children also learn remember what they have read in the story. According to the book, children develop a sense of story sequence, how to follow along in the book while the story is being read, and how to memorize the words. Therefore, read the same story over and over is good for the child.

Children should be able to participate during story time. You should encourage children to l...

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.... Children also enjoy books that Rhythmic like. Children enjoy these books because they can participate in the reading. One book that comes to mind when I think of children is “If you Happy and you know it”. This book allow children to jump up and down, clap their hands, and stomp their feet.

Parent should provide their children with different multicultural books. These books can help children learn about different things. Multicultural books can help young children learn about different characters in a book. Some multicultural books may have different characters with rhyming name. For example, a book may be called Silly Willey hit Billy. Children would enjoy this book because the name appeals to children. My children enjoy reading with me because I make sure they are paying attention to what I read. They must answer questions and tell me what the story was about.