{"id":4289,"date":"2013-03-04T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:34:05","slug":"dialogic-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/dialogic-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogic Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we explored ways in which parents can help enhance their\u00a0child’s\u00a0IQ through simple activities at home. One of the techniques is “dialogic reading.” We wanted to give our blog readers even more information so they could use this important technique at home!\u00a0Children’s\u00a0experience with books plays an important role in their readiness to learn, vocabulary acquisition, sentence structures, and even long-term success rates of staying in school! Studies have shown that children who are read to three times per week or more do much better in later development than children who are read to less than three times per week. And on top of that, it’s not just how much we read to them, but how we read to them!<\/p>\n

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Enter dialogic reading! In dialogic reading, the adult helps the child become the teller of the story and the adult becomes the listener, the questioner, and the audience for the child. The active involvement in the story helps the child to learn more, faster. The technique can be broken into four steps known as “PEER” sequence, allowing for short interactions between the adult and child during the reading. The adult:<\/p>\n