Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers

Learning Through Language

Jane Torr (Macquarie University, Australia)

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Routledge
03 March 2023

Pre-school & kindergarten; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: English language & literacy

Reading picture books with infants and toddlers facilitates their early language development, with far-reaching benefits for their later reading abilities and academic achievement.

While the importance of reading books with children aged from 3 to 5 years is widely recognised, the benefits of reading with much younger children from 0 to 3 years, who are still engaged in learning their first language, are less well understood. This book will explore the seemingly simple practice of reading picture books with infants and toddlers aged 0–3 years, from a range of perspectives. Not only do book-focused adult–child interactions support language and early literacy development in multiple ways, such interactions can also, at the same time, foster intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual growth. By weaving together in an accessible manner the insights from several different discipline areas, this book will explain how and why reading with infants and toddlers has such power to enrich their lives.

Providing an evidence-based, theoretically informed account, Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers supports educators, parents, and caregivers with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to provide frequent, enjoyable, and language-rich reading experiences with infants and toddlers.

By: Jane Torr (Macquarie University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 444g
ISBN: 9780367768928
ISBN 10: 0367768925
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 03 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The Benefits of Reading with Infants and Toddlers 2. How Context Shapes Meaning: A Functional Theory of Language 3. Shared Reading as a Pedagogical Practice: Learning through Language 4. Shared Reading from Birth to Eighteen Months: Semiotic Beginnings 5. Shared Reading from Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months: Representing Experience 6. Shared Reading from Two to Three Years: Language, Literature and Learning 7. Shared Reading with Infants and Toddlers in Early Childhood Education and Care Centres 8. Picture Books for Children from Birth to Three

Jane Torr has spent over thirty years teaching and researching in the areas of young children’s language, literacy, and literary development in home and early childhood education and care settings. She has drawn on insights from systemic functional linguistic theory to support her research, which has been published in academic and professional journals.