They discuss the two main goals of “Text Talk,” which are, “ to enhance comprehension through interspersed open questions that asked children to consider the ideas in the story, talk about them, and make connections among them as the story moves along. The authors of Bringing Words to Life initiated a research and development project called “Text Talk” which, in their words, “aimed at capturing the benefits of read alouds.” These are books read to students by teachers or other adults. Now we shall discuss how we can use the books that are read to students in a similar way. She replied, “They would feel happy to be rescued, but hurt.”Ĭlearly we need to do some more work here, but I wanted to share how it is possible to use the books that young children read to build their vocabulary. She was then asked, “How would those birds, animals or people feel if they had been rescued?” “If somebody hit an animal or a person, they would need to be rescued. ![]() Can you think of occasions when animals, birds or people might need to be rescued?” Another way of saying this would be to say they rescued the egg. “Later in the story, the characters Liz and Dan use the stilts to place a bird’s egg back in a nest in a tree. I was doing karate with my friend and my toe bent back. Have you ever had an injury? My student replied that she had and when asked if she could tell me what happened and how she felt about the injury, she explained:” When we have an injury we get hurt in some way. Another way of saying this would be to say he had an injury. ![]() “On page 2, Dan tilts while on stilts and lands in the mud twisting his leg. The book read by my student was the Dandelion Readers Set 3 Unit 10 book called “The Stilts.” The student was read the following. The books for younger students have very simple storylines, but the children enjoy being able to read them by themselves. In our practice we use the decodable readers produced by Phonic Books. So after a child has read a book by themselves, the parent, tutor, or teacher can describe an event or a character with an interesting word, and one the child may not be familiar with, and so build their vocabulary. “The words in stories (stories children read to themselves) are not appropriate for enriching children’s vocabularies, but some of the ideas in the simplest stories can be characterized by sophisticated words.” ![]() However, I’ll first return to Bringing Words to Life to explain this idea. Let me explain and then provide an example that I created and used with one of my younger students. While we can use these books to build the vocabulary knowledge of young children, it takes some effort and thought on the part of the teacher, tutor, or parent. The books that young children are able to read are intended to help them practice their reading skills rather than build their vocabulary. The authors of Bringing Words to Life tell us that, contrary to what we might believe, young children do not build their vocabulary by reading books but rather by having books read to them.
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