Strive-for-Five Conversations: A Framework That Gets Kids Talking to Accelerate Their Language Comprehension and Literacy (The Science of Reading in Practice)

This book contains excellent ideas for boosting children's oral language to ensure they are prepared for--and enjoy--instruction in reading and writing. The authors offer a simple framework for engaging children in rich conversations to boost their vocabulary, understanding of language structures, verbal reasoning skills, and knowledge of themselves and the world--and, by doing so, fill a huge gap in the science-of-reading conversation! Plus, they offer loads of children's book suggestions, teaching ideas, and demonstration videos. This book has changed the way I teach and my students learn!

Purchased as a resource book for reading small groups. I wanted to learn some tips for directing small group discussion related to reading. This is geared more for PreK - 2 grade on how to engage students in more in depth conversations. It would be very helpful as a resource. It also has great tips for parents on how to foster the conversation learning process at home. I have picked up a few ideas on how to incorporate some of the skills in my small groups.

As the authors mentioned, 'talking is teaching,' this concept deeply resonates with me as an early childhood and special education teacher. This book would be an invaluable asset in any classroom toolkit. I wholeheartedly endorse it for anyone seeking research-backed methods to enhance young children's oral language skills. The thorough explanation of how to scaffold conversations between teachers and students to match students' levels of understanding can be applied across all teaching contexts, building and strengthening their knowledge. The conversational strategies outlined in the book can help develop students' communication skills and vocabulary. Additionally, I appreciate the suggestions provided for students who are nonverbal communicators. I am enjoying implementing the 'Strive for Five' approach, aiming for five conversational turns with every young child I interact with regularly.

Easy read, good book

With the Science of Reading being all the buzz right now this book was a good read for new and seasoned teachers! I teach a high school Child Development class with a preschool embedded into my program. I’m going to incorporate a lot of the tips from this book. In the pictures I tried to show the QR codes that are throughout this book. The links take you to videos examples as well as free resources!

You have probably read the research cited in this book, but the practice applications are novel, practical and authentic. You are going to want to read a children’s book with a little one to try out the strategies the moment you are done reading this book, if not midway through it!

I bought this book to be part of a teacher book group on using converses to expand students thinking. It has good quick to read information on what is best practice universal design approaches.

Geared for Pre-k and K - but I can see the value apply to all grades. Offers a simple framework to support classroom conversations and the language comprehension strand of Scarborough’s Reading Rope