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The Best Books for Joint Reading. The Best Books for Joint Reading. Alisa Patel. Alisa Patel. What is Joint Reading?. Bidirectional Approach. Questions are asked Engaged Reading Scaffolding. Joint Reading Clip. Significance of Joint Reading Better Readers and Writers
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The Best Books for Joint Reading The Best Books for Joint Reading Alisa Patel Alisa Patel
What is Joint Reading? Bidirectional Approach Questions are asked Engaged Reading Scaffolding Joint Reading Clip
Significance of Joint Reading • Better Readers and Writers • Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary • Early Oral LanguageSkills • Word Recall • Helps Children with Disabilities • Helps Lower SES children
Experimental Question Do adapted books used with joint reading benefit first graders (in terms of enjoyment, comprehension and fluency) better than using either hard or easy books? Adapted Book Easy Hard Book
The three friends love school. The three friends love school. School is a place where people of all ages learn new things. Easy& Hard Books Adapted Book Easy Hard Book
Kim likes books about trains. Billy likes to read about cats. Cats are small carnivorous mammals. They have been domesticated since early times as a catcher of rats and mice and as a pet and existing in several distinctive breeds and varieties. Adapted Adapted Book Easy Hard
Hypothesis: Adapted books as well as easy books will show greater significance in terms of enjoyment, attention and comprehension than harder books. Adapted Book Easy Hard Book
Pre and Post Test • Leaves • Apples • Books • School • Friends • Together • Read • Trees • Play • Three • Counting • Green • Red
Subjects &Methods 42 First Graders (6-7 years old) Irvine School District 14 subjects /Hard 14 subjects/Easy 14 subjects/Adapted Each Read 3 Books Pre& Post Test = Fluency Sticker Scale= Enjoyment Comprehension Questions= Comprehension Methods
Hypothesis: Adapted books as well as easy books will show greater significance in terms of enjoyment, attention and comprehension than harder books. Adapted Book Easy Hard Book
Significance Easy &Hard = Hard fluency Adapted& Easy= Adapted enjoyed , Fluency Correlations Pre-test & Comprehension = Negative correlation Pre-test &Enjoyment= Negative Correlation Comprehension &Enjoyment= Positive Correlation
Implications for Future Research • -Larger Sample Size • More Diverse Population • Different Age Groups • Is Content of book a factor? • Is the Adaptive Model a good one?
Acknowledgements • Dr. Alison Clarke-Stewart • Dr. Valerie Jenness • Jennifer Miner, Ph.D. student • First Grade students • First Grade teachers • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Alisa Patel alisap@uci.edu alisapatel@gmail.com
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” -Dr. Seuss