Supporting Children's Wellbeing Using the Reading Well Home Reading Program
Published on 9. January 2025
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-90-04-69476-7 (ISBN)
Description
Discover the transformative power of The Reading WELL home reading program. This monograph unveils a groundbreaking approach to enhance child wellbeing through the use of developmental bibliotherapy. Parents and children engage in shared reading and discussions on the themes of body image, self-esteem, and resilience. Designed for children aged 8 to 10 years, this research not only fosters a love for reading but also provides a process to support emotional growth and learning. Backed by compelling theoretical insights, this book offers a profound insight to ways literature can act as a tool to promote eudemonic wellbeing and address issues of trauma in children's lives. Ideal for educators, psychologists, and parents, The Reading WELL sets a new standard in nurturing children's holistic development through the magic of storytelling.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-69476-7 (9789004694767)
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Person
Siobhan O'Brien is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. As the Director of Professional Experience she supports pre-service teachers professional practice in school and early childhood settings. Before this she has worked in primary schools across a range of settings and age groups as a Leading teacher and School leader in Curriculum, Wellbeing and Literacy. Siobhan's research is focused on parent/child engagement with a ground-breaking program titled The Reading WELL [Wellbeing in Everyday Language and Literature] a home reading program using books to support self-esteem, body image and resilience.
Content
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Part 1: Critical Pedagogy
1 Becoming a Reader, A Personal Vignette
?1 And so, to School
?2 The Reading WELL Study
?3 A Transactional Approach to Reading
?4 Reading Engagement and Interaction with Narrative 'Reader Response Theory'
?5 The Reader Stance Efferent and Aesthetic Reading
?6 Narrative Absorption through Fiction - Text, Personal Identity, Experience and Self
2 The Reading WELL Theoretical Perspective
?1 Mental Health of Children in Australia
?2 Eudaimonic Wellbeing
?3 Developmental Bibliotherapy
?4 Developmental Bibliotherapy in Educational Contexts
?5 Transactional Reader Response Theory, Alignment to Developmental Bibliotherapy
Part 2: Language and Literacy Teaching
3 Generating the Aesthetic Transaction through - Life to Text - Text to Life
?1 Children's 'Picture Story Books' Narrative Absorption through Fiction
?2 Literacy as a Cultural Practice
?3 Co-Construction of Meaning through Shared Reading
?4 Parental Influence on Children's Reading Engagement
4 Literacy-Focused Home Reading Programs
?1 Funds of Knowledge
?2 The Opportunities, Recognition, Interaction and Modelling (ORIM) Taxonomy
?3 The Four Resources Model
?4 Creating The Reading WELL Home Reading Program
?5 The 3 Wellbeing Focus Areas
?6 The Reading WELL Key Messages
7 Previous Programs Informing the Reading WELL Key
?Messages - Body Image
8 Previous Programs Informing the Reading WELL Key
?Messages - Self-Esteem
9 Previous Programs Informing the Reading WELL Key
?Messages - Resilience
?10 Developmental Bibliotherapy Book Selection
Part 3
Research Literacy Using Critical Creative Approaches
5 Creativity within the Narrative Field
?1 Narrative Research as an Interpretive Methodology
?2 The Ethics of Re-Storying the Evidence
?3 The New Reading WELL Narratives (Story)
?4 The New Reading WELL Narratives as Fiction-Based Research
6 The Reading WELL story, Story and STORY
?1 story
?2 Story
?3 STORY
?4 In Closing
Appendix A: The Reading WELL Child Journal
Appendix B: The Reading WELL Books Bibliotherapy Questions
and Suggested Responses
References
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Part 1: Critical Pedagogy
1 Becoming a Reader, A Personal Vignette
?1 And so, to School
?2 The Reading WELL Study
?3 A Transactional Approach to Reading
?4 Reading Engagement and Interaction with Narrative 'Reader Response Theory'
?5 The Reader Stance Efferent and Aesthetic Reading
?6 Narrative Absorption through Fiction - Text, Personal Identity, Experience and Self
2 The Reading WELL Theoretical Perspective
?1 Mental Health of Children in Australia
?2 Eudaimonic Wellbeing
?3 Developmental Bibliotherapy
?4 Developmental Bibliotherapy in Educational Contexts
?5 Transactional Reader Response Theory, Alignment to Developmental Bibliotherapy
Part 2: Language and Literacy Teaching
3 Generating the Aesthetic Transaction through - Life to Text - Text to Life
?1 Children's 'Picture Story Books' Narrative Absorption through Fiction
?2 Literacy as a Cultural Practice
?3 Co-Construction of Meaning through Shared Reading
?4 Parental Influence on Children's Reading Engagement
4 Literacy-Focused Home Reading Programs
?1 Funds of Knowledge
?2 The Opportunities, Recognition, Interaction and Modelling (ORIM) Taxonomy
?3 The Four Resources Model
?4 Creating The Reading WELL Home Reading Program
?5 The 3 Wellbeing Focus Areas
?6 The Reading WELL Key Messages
7 Previous Programs Informing the Reading WELL Key
?Messages - Body Image
8 Previous Programs Informing the Reading WELL Key
?Messages - Self-Esteem
9 Previous Programs Informing the Reading WELL Key
?Messages - Resilience
?10 Developmental Bibliotherapy Book Selection
Part 3
Research Literacy Using Critical Creative Approaches
5 Creativity within the Narrative Field
?1 Narrative Research as an Interpretive Methodology
?2 The Ethics of Re-Storying the Evidence
?3 The New Reading WELL Narratives (Story)
?4 The New Reading WELL Narratives as Fiction-Based Research
6 The Reading WELL story, Story and STORY
?1 story
?2 Story
?3 STORY
?4 In Closing
Appendix A: The Reading WELL Child Journal
Appendix B: The Reading WELL Books Bibliotherapy Questions
and Suggested Responses
References
Index