Supporting Children s Wellbeing Using the Reading Well Home Reading Program

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-69475-0
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Brien, Siobhan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.