Gradually shift the adult role from reading to listening and higher-level prompting as the child becomes familiar with a book¶

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Description¶

Within dialogic reading, the adult progressively reduces their own reading and increases the child's storytelling. As the article describes, "the adult reads less, listens more, and gradually uses higher level prompts" to move the child beyond naming objects toward thinking about what is happening in the pictures and relating it to the child's own experiences. This progression is implemented through repeated readings of the same book with the PEER sequence.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Repeated readings of the same book so the child becomes increasingly familiar with it
• Adult use of the PEER prompt-evaluate-expand-repeat sequence

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Preschool children, including children with language delays

Target Learning Goals¶

• Expressive language
• Narrative and storytelling skills

Affordances¶

• Dialogic Reading Practice Crowd Peer

Related Strategies¶

• Dialogic Reading
• Shared Reading

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Dialogic Reading. (2010). WWC Intervention Report, What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/136