Shared Book Reading and Children's Social-Emotional Competence

This book examines the contribution of shared book reading to various aspects of children's social-emotional development across a broad range of environments and with different reading agents, including home (parents), educational settings (teachers), and clinics (bibliotherapists). It demonstrates how shared book reading creates a safe and nurturing environment in which children can express themselves and learn about social relationships by discussing the characters' intentions, feelings, thoughts, desires, beliefs, and actions. The book explores the ways in which adults engage with young children in interactive reading, fostering aspects of social-emotional competence, including emotional knowledge, empathy, self-awareness, prosocial behavior, morality, values, and effective communication skills. This volume explores shared book reading interventions aiming to promote social-emotional competence from toddlerhood to childhood. It addresses shared book reading with at-risk children from different socio-economic backgrounds. The book concludes with recommendations for how parents and preschool teachers can promote social-emotional competence through shared-book reading.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Emotion and mental-state discourse during shared book reading: How parents, teachers, and children talk about emotions, thoughts, and social situations while reading together, and why shared reading is a uniquely rich context for mental-state dialogue.
• Cultural and contextual differences in shared-reading interactions: Cross-cultural patterns in emotion discourse, parental practices, and adult child meaning-making across diverse sociocultural settings.
• Story features that shape emotion discourse

Chaper 1. Book Reading with Young Children as a Platform for Adult-Child Emotional Discourse. - Chapter 2. Shared Book Reading as a Unique Opportunity for Parent-Child Talk About Mental and Emotional States: How Does Winnie-the-Pooh Feel? . - Chapter 3. Emotion Talk During Book Sharing in German and Costa Rican Mother-Child Dyads. - Chapter 4. Narratives of Indigenous Peoples to Learn How to Understand and Express Emotions in a Community: From the Written to the Oral in the Emotional Field. - Chapter 5. Talk About Emotions and Dialogic Reading Practices Among Adults at Varying Levels of Contextual Risk. - Chapter 6. Nurturing Children s Socioemotional Competencies Through Shared Book Reading. - Chapter 7. What Character Raises Richer Discourse During Shared Book Reading: Human or Animal. - Chapter 8. Working with Stories: A Bibliotherapeutic Perspective. - Chapter 9. Teachers Reading Style and Beliefs on Emotions. - Chapter 10. Shared Book Reading and the Promotion of Prosocial Conduct in Toddlerhood: The TEPP Program. - Chapter 11. Promoting Empathy through Shared Book Reading in Preschools: An Intervention Program. - Chapter 12. Parent-Child Shared Book Reading and Children s Socioemotional Development: A Meta-Analysis of Correlational Studies. - Chapter 13. Impact of Shared Book Reading Intervention on Children s Social-Emotional Competencies: A Systematic Review Protocol. - Chapter 14. Future Directions in Research and Practice.