Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"shared reading"”.
-
Book buddies : celebrating shared reading
This thesis describes a project involving reading books with a partner, and writing about the experience in journals kept by each of the partnerships. There were two groups of participants partnered together: one comprised of 12-13 year-old English second language (ESL) learners, and the other, …
-
Assessing the Quality of Parent-Child Interaction in Shared Reading Using the IPCI
The purpose of the study was to determine whether shared reading would be a useful context for observing parent-child interaction with infants and toddlers. Data from the Indicator of Parent-Child Interaction Validity (IPCI) Study (Baggett, Hughes, & Carta) were used to examine how parent-child …
-
HOME-VISITATION AND PARENT EDUCATION: THE IMPACT ON HOME-BASED SHARED READING DURING KINDERGARTEN
… attend home visits. Parents involved in PACT shared that their engagement in the program was heavily dependent upon the relationships developed between the family and the parent educator. Parenting skills that were developed reflected both the objectives of the program and more subtle features …
-
Incorporating Interactive Electronic Storybooks into Shared Reading Programs by Kindergarten Teachers: A Multiple Case Study
… storybooks (referred to as e-storybooks) for shared reading, as well as their attitudes towards adopting this tool as a resource for shared reading. The research inquiry was guided by three research questions: 1) What instructional strategies did the kindergarten teachers employ to try to …
-
Shared Reading, Scaffolding, Guided Participation, and Mind-mindedness in Appalachian Head Start Families: Building the Construct of Mindful-mindedness
… and guided participation strategies in the shared reading activity over time?; (c) Does participation in the intervention condition affect the child\'s outcomes on standardized tests?; and (d) What qualitative differences in the way adults and children interact in the shared reading activity …
-
Parental Shared Reading Intervention: Examining the Effects of Structured Parental Reading Training on Vocabulary Acquisition in Children Undergoing Treatment for Leukemia
… compared structured and unstructured parental reading programs in a sample of children diagnosed with leukemia focused on improving their vocabulary growth, an important factor facilitating academic success. The parents of these children participated in the intervention with their children …
-
Designing Parent-Child-Robot Triadic Storybook Reading Interaction
… interaction paradigm in the context of shared reading. Constructive parent-child shared reading is crucial in children’s early literacy learning, and as a result, we strive to aid children’s learning with productive and engaging parent-child-robot triadic reading interactions. The thesis …
-
Toward a theory of how young children learn to read in the ZPD: Implications for research and practice
… learning and construction of meaning within a shared reading activity setting, including the development and emergence of language, literacy and social skills. By incorporating Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural perspective, Jean Piaget's dialectical learning, and the concepts of metacognition, …
-
Inservice videos in guided reading, writers' workshop and working with words
… trained in the components of balanced literacy: reading aloud, shared reading, guided writing, writers' workshop and working with words.</p>
-
Opening The "Preschoolers' Door To Learning": An Ethnographic Study Of The Use Of Public Libraries By Preschool Girls
… activities; use of library materials, including shared reading and independent perusal; play; social interaction with others; and library programs. In the week following their library visits the children did the following: talked about libraries; made one or more additional library visits; played …
-
Children's meaning-making with narrative apps in early years: investigating the interplay between young readers, teachers, and app design
… their teachers, and narrative apps during shared reading events. Beyond children’s interactions, the research investigates how both teachers and app designers participate in and shape these reading practices. Grounded in multimodal social semiotics, particularly Gunther Kress' (2003) …
-
Improving student engagement in preschool classrooms with developmentally appropriate read aloud opportunities
… The research looked at traditional story book reading, interactive shared reading, e-books, repeated readings and story props for retelling of familiar stories. Read aloud sessions were recorded over the four week period to look for patterns in student and teacher behavior that would encourage …
-
Tools for supporting English language learning in the family context
… such as text-to-speech, word translation, and shared-reading prompts. The thesis develops a set of design and user-testing guidelines that creates affordances for parents who are learning English. It builds on an iterative design process that includes two user studies of parents using the Read …
-
Literacy Instruction for Learners with Moderate to Severe Intellectual Disabilities: A Chance for Growth in Reading through Adapted Materials and Evidence-Based Strategies
… instruction in the educational setting. If reading instruction was provided, it traditionally centered on sight words used throughout a student's daily life (Browder Ahlgrim-Delzell, Spooner, Mims, & Baker, 2009). No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (2002) and the reauthorization of the Individuals …
-
Effect of a Classwide Peer-Mediated Intervention on the Social Interactions of Students with Low-Functioning Autism and the Perceptions of Typical Peers
… autism were grouped with typical peers for a shared reading activity. The study alternated between baseline and intervention stages in which students were taught to stay, read, and talk with their buddy. Results of the study indicate that three of the four participants with low-functioning …
-
An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme
… support to Grade 2 and 3 learners at risk of reading failure. The programme takes the form of one-to-one or one-to-two tutoring. The learners who are chosen to participate in the Literacy Hour programme are selected based on their results in Shine's diagnostic assessment completed at the end …
-
Interactive storybooks with a robot companion
… learning process. Research shows that children's reading ability improves through shared reading exercises with parents, personalized feedback and curriculums, and reinforced associations between audio and visual representations of words. These findings, along with recent advances in technology, …
-
An Assessment of Parents' Book-sharing Quality, Children's Level of Engagement, and the Effects on Children's Verbal Exchanges
… are needed for children to be ready to acquire reading when they go to school. The programme targets parents of low socioeconomic status and children aged 30 to 60 months, and it is implemented using a seven-week curriculum. The purpose of this evaluation was to examine the extent to which the …
-
Context Clues: Determinants of Parental Sensitivity and Early Childhood Development
… later executive functioning development in a Shared Reading Task. Cross-sample comparisons showed that mothers from more affluent were twice as likely to exhibit high CS compared to those from less affluent backgrounds. However, CS mediates the relationship between children’s language …
Page 1 of 2