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CROWD
CROWD is used to remember the types of basic questions to ask to facilitate dialogic reading: completion, recall, open-ended, “wh” questions, and distancing.
IDEA
The IDEA strategy uses four key components drawn from research that caregivers can easily implement to teach and practice literacy skills when reading to children at home. Components include identifying story elements, defining unfamiliar words, eliciting literal and inferential information, and analyzing illustrations.
Interactive Reading Guide Book Inserts
This guide can be put in every book at home or in the classroom library to help plan new vocabulary and questions you want to include when reading with children in order to facilitate dialogic reading.
Set of Interactive Reading Guide Book Inserts
PEER
PEER questions (prompt, evaluate, expand, repeat) are meant to encourage deeper responses about a text during dialogic reading, leading to a conversation beyond one-word answers.