1st Edition

Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers Learning Through Language

By Jane Torr Copyright 2023
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Reading picture books with infants and toddlers facilitates their early language development, with far-reaching benefits for their later reading abilities and academic achievement. While the importance of reading books with children aged from 3 to 5 years is widely recognised, the benefits of reading with much younger children from 0 to 3 years, who are still engaged in learning their first... Read more

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

Biography

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.