Let's Read Together Improving Literacy Outcomes With the Adult-Child Interactive Reading Inventory (Aciri)

The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions during joint book reading, the Adult/Child Interactive Reading Inventory (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. This manual includes materials 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.DeBruin-Parecki, Andrea is the author of 'Let's Read Together Improving Literacy Outcomes With the Adult-Child Interactive Reading Inventory (Aciri)', published 2006 under ISBN 9781557667625 and ISBN 1557667624.