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Assessment of interactive reading
Family literacy and interactive reading
Understanding the Adult-Child Interactive Reading Inventory
Using the Adult-Child Interactive Reading Inventory
Adult-Child Interactive Reading Inventory (ACIRI)
English ACIRI tool and scoring sheet
Spanish ACIRI tool and scoring sheet
Linked activities to foster family literacy
Category I. Enhancing attention to text (with Adam Severson)
Behavior 1: Maintaining physical proximity
Class activity : read aloud
Take-home activity : trust walk
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Behavior 2: Sustaining interest and attention
Class activity : telling a story together
Take-home activity : I spy
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Behavior 3: Holding the book and turning pages
Class activity : mouse hunt
Take-home activity : animals wearing clothing
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Behavior 4: Displaying a sense of audience
Class activity : tell me a story
Take-home activity : making a family book
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Category II: Promoting interactive reading and supporting comprehension (with Adam Severson)
Behavior 1: Posing and soliciting questions
Class activity : nine magic wishes
Take-home activity : guess what?
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Behavior 2: Identifying and understanding pictures and words
Class activity : alphabet book
Take-home activity : riddles
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Behavior 3: Relating content to personal experiences
Class activity : a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Class activity : I like it when
Take-home activity : how we grow
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Behavior 4: Pausing to answer questions
Class activity : animal poetry
Take-home activity : mama, do you love me?
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Category III: Using literacy strategies (with Adam Severson)
Behavior 1: Identifying visual cues
Class activity : rebus poems
Take-home activity : using repeated words
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Behavior 2: Predicting what happens next
Class activity : what might happen next?
Class activity : picture walk predictions
Take-home activity : if you give a mouse a cookie
Take-home activity : can you predict what will happen?
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Behavior 3: Recalling information
Class activity : story map
Take-home activity : is your mama a llama?
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Behavior 4: Elaborating on ideas
Class activity : extending a story
Take-home activity : paper bag puppet
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Let's read together : improving literacy outcomes with the adult-child interactive reading inventory (ACIRI) by Andrea DeBruin-Parecki. ISBN 9781557669162. Published by Paul H. Brookes in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.