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Sample A: Cover Page of Thesis, Project, or Dissertation Proposal

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You will need to make up your own open-ended and distancing prompts. They are<br />

very imp<strong>or</strong>tant. Don’t f<strong>or</strong>get them.<br />

Dialogic reading is just children and adults having a conversation about a book.<br />

Children will enjoy dialogic reading m<strong>or</strong>e than traditional reading as long as you mix up<br />

your prompts with straight reading, vary what you do from reading to reading, and follow<br />

the child‘s interest. Keep it light. Don‘t push children with m<strong>or</strong>e prompts than they can<br />

handle happily. Keep it fun!<br />

Bookends—Introducing Books<br />

The CROWD prompts and PEER sequences we have described to you f<strong>or</strong><br />

dialogic reading should be used while reading a book with a small group <strong>of</strong> children f<strong>or</strong><br />

repeated readings spread out over several days. Your procedures should differ when you<br />

read the book the first time, and after children have mastered the book. We call these<br />

bookends because they come at the beginning and end <strong>of</strong> the classroom curriculum f<strong>or</strong> a<br />

book.<br />

The first reading <strong>of</strong> a book should consist much m<strong>or</strong>e <strong>of</strong> straight reading than<br />

prompting so that children can be exposed to the st<strong>or</strong>y that the book conveys. Children<br />

should be <strong>or</strong>iented to the book the first time with a few comments about the cover and<br />

title.<br />

Scheduling Dialogic Reading<br />

Each child in a classroom should receive at least 10-15 minutes <strong>of</strong> dialogic<br />

reading time 3 days per week. Children are exposed to a single book at least 3 times over<br />

a 5-day period. One book will be provided to you each week. All lead teachers, assistant<br />

teachers, and teaching assistants are welcome to read books with participating children.<br />

The first day <strong>of</strong> a week-long sequence <strong>of</strong> dialogic reading is devoted to<br />

introducing the book. The next 2 days are devoted to small-group dialogic reading. You<br />

may read with children f<strong>or</strong> the remaining 1-2 days <strong>of</strong> the week if you wish.<br />

Each small group should have no m<strong>or</strong>e than 5 children in it. A typical reading<br />

session should last f<strong>or</strong> 10-15 minutes per group. One model f<strong>or</strong> small group reading<br />

involves a floating assistant who moves from classroom to classroom to manage children<br />

who are not involved in reading while the teacher <strong>or</strong> assistant conducts the small group<br />

reading sessions. This is the model that will be used f<strong>or</strong> this study.<br />

Reference<br />

Whitehurst, G. J. (1994). The Stony Brook emergent literacy curriculum. Unpublished<br />

manuscript.<br />

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