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Storytime: Young Children´s Literary Understanding in the Classroom
Lawrence R. Sipe
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Description for Storytime: Young Children´s Literary Understanding in the Classroom
Paperback. Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children's understanding of picture storybooks. This volume includes examples of children's responses and how teachers scaffold the children's interpretation of stories. It is suitable for contemporary young children with various ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNT; YBCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
The author draws on his own extensive research in urban classrooms to present a comprehensive, grounded theoretical model of children’s understanding of picture storybooks—the first to focus specifically on young children. Advancing a much broader and deeper theory of literary understanding, the author suggests that children respond in five different ways during picture storybook readalouds; that these responses reveal that children are engaged in different types of literary meaning-making; and that these types of meaning-making are examples of five foundational aspects of literary understanding.
Capturing the liveliness of children’s responses, this dynamic volume:
- Describes picture storybooks as sophisticated aesthetic ... Read more
- Offers a theory of literary understanding that is relevant to contemporary young children from a wide variety of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Includes a wealth of examples of children’s responses to literature and how teachers scaffold their interpretation of stories.
- Examines the significance of young children’s literary interpretation, factors that influence literary understanding, and implications for practice and further research.
Product Details
Publisher
Teachers´ College Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807748282
SKU
V9780807748282
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99-50
About Lawrence R. Sipe
Lawrence R. Sipe is an associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
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