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How to read
Wordless books
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to
promote early literacy
Interactivity is key
Research supports using interactive reading techniques to encourage early literacy behaviors in young children (ECRR2, 2011). Interactive reading helps to develop children's language skills, vocabulary, and comprehension. By their nature, wordless picture books lend themselves to open ended questions, and dialogue.
How to share wordless picture books with children of different ages
Johnson County Library, Youth Services Manager, Barbara Brand
babies
toddlers
preschoolers
Examples of Storytime Interactive Reading Techniques
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Whole Book Approach
Megan Lambert Dowd, Author,
How to Read Books with Children
Dialogic Reading
Lauren Dennis, Denver Public Library
Interactivity and brain development
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
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