Marbles-HAY

Facilitating children's emergent literacy using shared reading: A comparison of two models
Ian Hay & Ruth Fielding-Barnsley

(1) regular engagement in early pre-school literacy activities (2) speaking in the home, the language used in the tests to assess the child’s reading (3) having a greater number of books in the home (4) the amount of time parents spent reading with their child (5) the parents’ and child’s attitude towards reading
 * Children's reading achievements are influenced by:

"There should be a continuation between the pre-reading behaviours of very young children, and the reading skills the children later acquire more formally in the primary and middle school settings. These skills are conceptualised as falling along the same developmental continuum." Meaning: the link between //learning to read// and //reading to learn// should be better developed.

The dialogic readin program is presented: it is an intervention technic that should put to action by parents, through reading with theis children and engaging in conversation about what has been read with them. That way, theis language skills are improved.