Tips for Reading with your

Preschooler!
Dialogic Reading*
Help your child become the teller of the story.
You become the listener, the uestioner, the audience.*
!ollow this seuence in reading to your child"
Read the entire boo# to your child, then go page by page and follow
P$$R
P%Prompt your child to say something about the boo#
&'hat does a dog say()
$%$*aluate your child+s response
&That+s right, a dog says woof, woof!
$%$,pand on your child+s response
&-nd a cat says meow!
R%Repeat the prompt
&'hat does a cow say)(
!ollow the &.R/'D) to prompt your child while reading
.%.ompletion prompts%as# your child to complete sentences in familiar
boo#s.
&0 do not li#e 1reen $ggs and Ham, 0 do not li#e them 2am 0 3333.)
R%Recall prompts%as# your child what happened in the story.
&Did 2am li#e 1reen $ggs and Ham()
/%/pen ended prompts%as# about the picture and the story.
&'hat is 2am doing in this picture()
'%'hat, when, where and why prompts for preschoolers.
&'hat is 2am holding()
D%Distancing prompts% as# your child to relate the boo# to e*ents or
situations
0n his4her own life.
&5oo# at 2am+s doggy. Do you ha*e a doggy()
*'hitehurst, 1. 67889:. Dialogic Reading" -n e;ecti*e way to read to preschoolers.
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