Storytime: Young Children's Literary Understanding in the Classroom

by Lawrence R. Sipe

Book Overview

The author draws on his own extensive research in urban classrooms to present a comprehensive, grounded theoretical model of children's understanding of picture storybooks--the first to focus specifically on young children. Advancing a much broader and deeper theory of literary understanding, the author suggests that children respond in five different ways during picture storybook readalouds; that these responses reveal that children are engaged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807748285
• ISBN13: 9780807748282
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"