03509cam a2200241 4500 2031566 TxAuBib 20070307120000.0 130516s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781557667625 1557667624 TxAuBib Let's Read Together: Improving Literacy Outcomes With the Adult-Child Interactive Reading Inventory (ACIRI) w/CD / by Andrea DeBruin-Parecki with invited contributors. Baltimore, Md. : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., 2007. xix, 167 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. +. The ACIRI is an assessment tool designed to enhance adult-child interactive reading by measuring one-on-one reading skills. This book describes the key characteristics of effective adult-child interactive reading and gives professionals a research-based, comprehensive observational tool for measuring the qualities of one-on-one book reading. The ACIRI focuses on adult and child behaviors in three areas: enhancing attention to text, promoting interactive reading and supporting comprehension, and using literacy strategies. It is linked to intervention activities designed to promote emergent literacy. The book includes a review of the literature on joint adult/child storybook reading, through descriptions of important literacy behaviors clear guidelines on how to use the ACIRI to observe and work with families, and strategies for promoting positive outcomes for children and families. The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions during joint book reading, ACIRI helps parents promote the development of emergent literacy skills, helps early childhood educators improve and individualize their teaching of these skills, and helps family literacy programs provide evaluation data that demonstrates their practices are effective. Grounded in scientifically based reading research and extensively field tested, ACIRI Measures what's important. ACIRI assesses both adult and child behaviors in three categories that research has identified as critical: Enhancing Attention to Text, Promoting Interactive Reading and Supporting Comprehension, and Using Literacy Strategies. Takes just 15–20 minutes for users to observe the adult and child reading together, assess them jointly using 12 key reading behaviors, and score the assessment with the simple, easy-to-use form. Includes intervention activities. ACIRI is much more than an assessment. For each behavior evaluated, users will get tips on explaining the behavior to adults, plus two fun, photocopiable activities to help promote the behavior: a class activity and a take-home activity. Lists of recommended children's books to use with the activities are also included. This manual and CD-ROM includes everything programs need to use ACIRI effectively—the complete photocopiable tool in English and Spanish, the intervention activities, detailed information on the behaviors assessed, technical data, and extended case stories on interactive reading programs. With this one-of-a-kind assessment and intervention tool, literacy programs will prove their effectiveness and adults will improve children's critical early experiences with books. 20080219. Early childhood special education. Early childhood education. Reading. https://products.brookespublishing.com/Lets-Read-Together-P540.aspx