ERIC Number: EJ1158826
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 11
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Parent Book Talk to Accelerate Spanish Content Vocabulary Knowledge
Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Satterfield, Teresa; Benki, José R.; Vaquero, Juana; Ungco, Camille
Reading Teacher, v71 n3 p335-345 Nov-Dec 2017
This article bridges research to practice by summarizing an interactive content-enriched shared book reading approach that Spanish-speaking parents of preschool-age children can easily use in the home to accelerate content vocabulary knowledge in Spanish. The approach was implemented in preschool classrooms using a transitional bilingual education model in Central Texas and in a Saturday Spanish heritage language school in the Midwestern United States. Spanish-speaking emergent bilingual children from both lower and higher socioeconomic status backgrounds learned content-related vocabulary via parent-child discussions of Spanish storybooks and informational texts organized by compelling science and social studies themes and topics. The authors provide recommendations for how teachers can support Spanish-speaking parents' ability to develop informal knowledge-building experiences through home-based interactive book discussions in Spanish.
Descriptors: Spanish, Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Science Education, Social Studies, Informal Education, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Literature, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Socioeconomic Status, Story Reading, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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