A “reading contract” in kindergarten to promote emerging literacy. Using picture books to examine which mediations are necessary for shared reading ?
The teaching project called “reading-contract” which has been introduced at the kindergarten level to promote emerging literacy by encouraging families to participate and to share stories in the class. The aim of this article is to examine, through this educational device, concepts of literary mediation and shared reading. The quality of the families’ commitment and children’s feedback, as well as the variety of “story-tellers” – indicated those aspects that form the theoretical basis of the reading contract. The assessment is in keeping with an anthropological examination of literacy.