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Reading notes: The (multilingual) dialogue reading aloud

The following tips for reading aloud in dialogue we would like to give you along the way:

Look at the books in advance and check whether the illustrations and text are suitable (depending on your child's age and interest, appealing and conversation-stimulating pictures).
Take your child's interests and age into account when choosing books (or providing books).
If there are several books to choose from, let your child decide which book should be read aloud.
The reading time depends on your child's concentration and motivation - younger children in particular often have a very short concentration span and may be tired after just ten minutes.
Pick up on your child's statements and questions and ask additional questions to engage in a dialogue with your child.
Encourage your child to name and describe illustrated objects and facts.
Ask simple W questions (Who? What? Where?). However, make sure that the questions stimulate storytelling and do not lead to a request for facts.
Give your child affirming feedback. This will further stimulate the joy of speaking and maintain motivation.
You can let your child complete sentences or think up a different ending to the story.

If you read to your child regularly - in the language that suits you best - or look at picture books together, this not only promotes your relationship, but also has many other positive aspects. Reading aloud in dialogue focuses on a conversational approach to the book or story. The aim is to talk together with the child about the book, the pictures and the stories. The child's comments are expressly encouraged and can be supported and promoted.

Your child learns:

to listen and apply the rules of dialogue,
empathise with others and relate to characters from the story.
identify,
that there are different points of view and opinions,
to form their own opinion and to express it - they realise that their own opinion is important and is heard,
learns new words and facts and is encouraged to experience new things,
to make their own considerations and put them into words.

Further sources:

Kraus, Karoline (2005): Dialogic reading - new ways of promoting language in kindergarten and the family. In: Roux, Susanna (ed.): PISA and the consequences: Language and language promotion in kindergarten. Landau: Verlag Empirische Pädagogik, pp. 109-129. URL: https://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/fachartikel/bildungsbereiche-erziehungsfelder/sprache-fremdsprachen-literacy-kommunikation/1892/ (Last accessed on 13/02/2024)

Sponsoring consortium BiSS/ Mercator Institute for Language Support and German as a Second Language (2017): Come on, let's tell each other a story! Dialogue-based reading in daycare centres. Cologne: BiSS consortium. URL: https://www.biss-sprachbildung.de/pdf/biss-broschuere-dialogisches-lesen-in-kitas.pdf (Last accessed on 13/02/2024)

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