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Family Reading Time 

La hora de lectura en familia

Research shows that having conversations with children during book reading can significantly improve their understanding of the book and build their early literacy skills. For children from multilingual households, spending time reading every day in both English and their first language can support their language and literacy development, as well as help maintain first language proficiency.

This video series was developed to provide multilingual families with tips for reading with young children. The videos listed below feature women and girls reading to children in English and Spanish using a variety of dialogic reading methods as developed by Grover Whitehurst.

Mother reading to her daughter.
Completing a Phrase (Completion Prompt) See video
Two sisters reading on the couch.
Remembering the Story (Recall Prompt) See video
An older sister reads to her younger sister.
Making Connections to the Story (Distancing Prompt) See video
This video demonstrates OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS.
Asking Open-Ended Questions See video
An older brother reads to his little sister.
Asking Wh- Questions See video
Mother reads to her daughter.
Haciendo preguntas abiertas See video
Mother reads to her daughter.
Completando una frase (Terminar) See video
Mother reads to her daughter.
Recordando el cuento See video
A mother reading to her child.
Haciendo Preguntas Informativas See video
  • Las investigaciones demuestran que el conversar con sus hijos mientras se les lee un libro puede mejorar de manera importante cuán bien lo entienden y el desarrollo de sus destrezas de la alfabetización temprana. Para aquellos niños en hogares multilingües, el pasar un rato leyendo cada día en inglés y en su idioma materno puede fomentar su desarrollo del lenguaje y alfabetización, y también ayudar a mantener el dominio de su idioma materno.

    La serie de videos Family Reading Time / La hora de lectura en familia fue realizada con ayuda del Windham Area Women and Girls Fund  (El fondo de mujeres y niñas de la zona de Windham) para ofrecer a las familias multilingües consejos sobre cómo leer con sus hijos pequeños. En los videos enumerados a continuación aparecen mujeres y niñas leyendo a niños en inglés y español utilizando una variedad de métodos de lectura dialógica, según desarrollada por Grover Whitehurst.

    La hora de lectura en familia / Family Reading Time fue desarrollado por el Dialogic Reading for Multilingual Families project ,  y financiado por el Windham Area Women and Girls Fund de la Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut. El proyecto les enseñó a familias multilingües, y también estudiantes de la secundaria, lo importante que es seguir leyendo a sus hijos en su idioma materno. Las clases también incluyeron información sobre las estrategias de la lectura dialógica para fomentar el lenguaje oral durante la lectura. Las familias interesadas se ofrecieron voluntariamente para que fueran grabadas leyendo con sus hijos.

  • Family Reading Time was developed under the Dialogic Reading for Multilingual Families project. The project provided training to multilingual families, including high school students, on the importance of continuing to read to children in their first language. Trainings also included information on dialogic reading strategies for fostering oral language during book reading. Interested families volunteered to be videotaped reading to their children.

  • Producer: Julia DeLapp
    Director and Editor: Denise Matthews
    Production Coordinator and Editing Consultant: Ken Measimer
    Content Expert: Ann Anderberg
    Videographers: Ken Measimer, Sean Leser (Eastern student), Amy Dillon (Eastern student)
    Narrators: Luz Ramos, Denise Matthews, Anny Ovalle (Eastern student)
    Translation: Maria Jose Pastor, Maria Martinez (Eastern student)
    Photography: William Black
  • The Center for Early Childhood Education thanks the Windham Area Women and Girls Fund of the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut for supporting this project.