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Deshmukh, Richa S.; Pentimonti, Jill M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Curry, Bridget – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: We studied conversations initiated through teacher questions during shared book reading in prekindergarten and kindergarten classrooms as these conversations provide opportunities for the teacher to scaffold emerging language skills. This study provides detailed analysis of scaffolding strategies used by teachers after children answered…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teacher Student Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Teachers
Pentimonti, Jill M.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Tambyraja, Sherine R.; Justice, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Measuring the quality of classroom-based interactive shared book reading within the early childhood classroom represents a specific dimension of teacher-child interactions that is of great interest to researchers. This interest reflects decades of research demonstrating the benefit of reading to young children in both the home and the classroom.…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity
Deshmukh, Richa S.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Tambyraja, Sharine R.; Pentimonti, Jill M.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Justice, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examined the extent to which preschool teachers used different types of questions during classroom-based shared book reading. Our goals were to describe the question wording teachers use to elicit child responses and to consider sequential relations between types of question wording and student responses. Participants included 96…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Story Reading, Reading Aloud to Others
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Dynia, Jaclyn M.; Justice, Laura M.; Pentimonti, Jill M.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Storybook features, such as linguistic richness and print salience, potentially influence how a teacher references print. This study addressed two research questions: (1) to what extent does the linguistic richness and print salience of children's storybooks relate to teachers' use of print referencing? and (2) to what extent is there an interplay…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Reading Instruction, Story Reading, Childrens Literature
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Piasta, Shayne B.; Dynia, Jaclyn M.; Justice, Laura M.; Pentimonti, Jill M.; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This large-scale, experimental study aimed to (a) describe the extent to which teachers of preschool children at risk for reading difficulties make references to print during whole-class, shared-book read alouds and (b) empirically test the extent to which participation in professional development influences teachers' frequency of references to…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Kaderavek, Joan N.; Pentimonti, Jill M.; Justice, Laura M. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
This study addressed two aims: First, to examine the quality of adult shared book-reading behaviors for teachers and caregivers of children with communication impairments (CI) and, second, to compare the level of child literacy engagement during the teacher-led (group) and caregiver-led (one-on-one) shared book-reading sessions. Sixteen children…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Caregivers, Parent Role, Communication Problems