Conversational reading is a form of reading to children and one, again, this is done on a very individualized basis. With children under age three it\u2019s done one on one; the teacher sits down with one child and reads a book. She reads a book individually to every child every day. And often teachers who are doing this well will in fact read several books to each child every day and if you\u2019re working with children that are age three and four you read books in pairs, so you read to pairs of children and you have a special technique that you use in reading called the three S strategy, and the three S\u2019s are see, show, and say. The teacher tries to get the child to see the things on the page, the child is responding to the teacher\u2019s request to look at a certain thing, and the teacher\u2019s checking does the child look at that thing? And then show, you\u2019re trying to ask the child a question and the child gives you the answer by showing something on the page, by touching, pointing, covering, tickle, sometimes we say \u201ctickle the monkeys toes,\u201d or \u201ccover the tiger there on the page, and then by saying, and there we ask the child \u201cwhat\u2019s this person doing\u201d \u201cwho\u2019s this\u201d and we ask things like \u201ccan you tell me what\u2019s going to happen next\u201d so we\u2019re getting verbal answers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s important about this is this reaches right down to the tiniest babies up to quite advance four and five year olds when they\u2019re giving a whole paragraph answer and the very young child is simply giving a look or a point and teachers learn to be very skillful in understanding all these child behaviours and it makes conversational reading quite different from different kinds of reading because it reaches right down to very young children and those young children give meaningful responses on every page. The teacher does something, the child does something. The teacher does something, the child does something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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