- PMD: 3,7
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Poster Session 7: Consultation and Collaboration With Educators and Parents
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- promote parents reading aloud to their children from birth on as a family norm from review of research;
- learn the empirical research on the effectiveness of Reader's Theatre as a motivating intervention;
- learn the motivating effects of having therapy dogs in school to promote reading achievement; and
- have a listing of children's books that extol reading and prosocial skills.
Description
Parents must establish reading aloud to their child as a family norm. Enjoyment of reading predicted reading achievement. Reader's Theatre and therapy dogs at school make reading fun and accurate.
Presenter(s)
Albert F. Hodapp, Buena Vista University
