powerful way to increase their vocabulary,
listening comprehension, syntactic
development, and word-recognition skills
(Lane & Wright, 2007, p. 674).
―Teacher read-alouds put verbal words into
students‘ listening and speaking vocabularies‖
(Hurst, Wilson, Camp, & Cramer, 2002, p.
57).
"We advocate focusing children's attention on
phonics in the beginning stages of learning to
read, while helping them to use context and
other clues such as pictures, to support and
confirm. At the same time, we strongly urge
the reading of good literature to assist children
in understanding why they are learning all
about sound-symbol relationships" (Vogt &
Shearer, 2011, p. 162).
―They may hear words they‘ve never before
heard and familiar words used in new ways