Print referencing refers to an adult's use of nonverbal and verbal cues to direct a child's
attention to the forms, features, and functions of written language. These cues are …

Grounded in a strong evidence base, this indispensable practitioner guide and text has
given thousands of teachers tools to support the literacy growth of beginning and struggling …

The purpose of the current study was to explore parent and child extratextual utterances
during storybook and expository book sharing. Sixty-two parents and their three-to four-year …

How much do preschool children look at print within storybooks when adults read to them?
This study sought to answer this question as well as to examine the effects of adult verbal …

Which skills appear to provide preschoolers with important foundations for their later
development of print literacy? How important is sharing books with preliterate children to …

To those outside the field of education, it must seem like an unnecessary splitting of hairs to
debate whether young children's first encounters with print should be called prereading …

This study used eye‐gaze analysis to determine the extent to which pre‐school children
visually attended to print when looking at two storybooks, to contrast visual attention to print …

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current
research on adult book reading to children. The authors, drawn from around the world, are …

Storybooks are the most frequently chosen genre for read alouds in preschool classrooms.
However, growing evidence suggests that genre may influence the quantity and quality of …

In this article we embed a case study of 1 teacher and her first graders' interactions around
information book read alouds within a discussion of the research on reading comprehension …