Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers: Learning Through Language

ISBN-13: 9780367768928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 144 str.

Australia) Torr Jane (Macquarie University

Opis

Providing an evidence-based, theoretically informed account, Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers supports educators, parents and caregivers with the knowledge, skills and motivation to provide frequent, enjoyable, and language-rich reading experiences with infants and toddlers.

Spis treści

1. The Benefits of Reading with Infants and Toddlers 2. How Context Shapes Meaning: A Functional Theory of Language 3. Shared Reading as a Pedagogical Practice: Learning through Language 4. Shared Reading from Birth to Eighteen Months: Semiotic Beginnings 5. Shared Reading from Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months: Representing Experience 6. Shared Reading from Two to Three Years: Language, Literature and Learning 7. Shared Reading with Infants and Toddlers in Early Childhood Education and Care Centres 8. Picture Books for Children from Birth to Three

O autorze

Jane Torr has spent over thirty years teaching and researching in the areas of young children’s language, literacy, and literary development in home and early childhood education and care settings. She has drawn on insights from systemic functional linguistic theory to support her research, which has been published in academic and professional journals.