Explain why storybook reading plays such an important role in children's early literacy ...

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The adult helps the child negotiate the meaning of the text, assisting by relating the content to personal experiences, providing information, asking questions, and setting expectations. Children learn that print has meaning, tells a story, and/or provides useful information.

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b

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A writing center is that area of the classroom where the teacher has a wide variety of writing materials that invite children to write.

In the writing center, the teacher is a co-writer, working alongside the children and modeling the writing process, informally teaching children about the forms (letters, thank-you notes) and features (spelling, letter formation) of print. As a skilled writer, the teacher can teach children as he or she writes by casually talking about lettersound relationships, how to begin a letter, or what might be said in a letter.

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d

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Parents can promote their children's oral language by scaffolding their language, encouraging them to turn their experiences into personal, reading stories to them on a regular basis, and by monitoring their children's television consumption and encouraging active viewing.

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Reading assessment is increasingly linked to content area reading skills and individual growth in self-assessment to monitor reading performance. Classroom organization for reading instruction should include a mix of small-group instruction, peer/group learning, and self-directed learning that is supported in a participatory environment that provides access to traditional print and digital materials and experiences.

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Teachers organize instruction around a model-engage-practice-reinforce/reflect approach that focuses on tapping and developing students' background knowledge, strengthening vocabulary and setting purposes for reading, developing robust silent reading skills, engaging students in challenging discussion activities that exercise higher-order thinking skills, and reinforcing reading in follow-through activities that stimulate thought and reflection. Several research-based techniques and strategies are commonly used across different types of reading programs (e.g., reading workshop) in daily reading lessons.

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Content focuses on helping students know and use skills related to word meaning and sentence meaning, text organization and deriving meanings, making judgments and reading critically, and developing habits of lifelong reading. Reading to learn techniques provide specific guidance in activating background knowledge, adding to background knowledge, developing vocabulary, setting purposes for reading, monitoring silent reading, and following through to reinforce and consolidate comprehension.

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