- On Tuesday, you will begin Day 2 of Dialogic Reading. Remind the children that you read the book the day before, and now you are going to talk about the pictures in the book.
- During Day 2, point to specific, identifiable objects or actions in the illustrations and ask “What” or “Who” (and sometimes “Where”) questions as you encourage the children to use specific language to label the picture that you are pointing.
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Which picture do you think you could ask a child to identify in your book? Roll over the book to see more information. |
- Follow up with questions about the color, shape, purpose, or function of the pictured object(s) (e.g., “What is this?”, “Everyone say _______”, “What color is it?”, “What shape is it?”, “Who is this?”, “What is ____doing?” and “What do we use it for?”).
- Avoid questions that prompt children for a yes or no answer, or to point to something in the book. The purpose of Dialogic Reading is to encourage the children to talk. Therefore, yes or no answers and pointing to pictures will not fulfill the purpose of this strategy.
- It is important to call on the children both individually and chorally. You will call on a child and ask him or her to identify a picture. When it is an unfamiliar word to all of the children, tell the whole group to repeat the word.
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Which objects do you think will be unfamiliar
to the children? Roll over the
book to see more information. |
- The goal of Day 2 is to learn the vocabulary of the book by labeling items that are seen in the pictures. These labels do not need to appear in the text.
- On Days 2 and 3, you will select most of the pictures to be discussed, but feel free to follow a child’s lead if he or she shows interest in another illustration.
- On Days 2 through 5, you are welcome to summarize or paraphrase sections of the text as you go from page to page, but the focus should not be on reading the story, and you need not be concerned with completing or reading all pages of the book.
