Publisher Summary This chapter reviews research on the relationship between social
interaction and cognitive development. It proposes a framework that allows to explain a wide …

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize research on picture book reading with young
children (ie, children under the age of 3). In this paper, we review cross-sectional …

Although many studies have explored shared book reading between preschoolers and their
families, very few have examined this practice within a large, nationally representative …

Research on the topic of parent beliefs, or parent cognition, has increased tremendously
since the original publication of this volume in 1985. For this revised second edition, the …

A significant gap in emerging literacy intervention with preschoolers relates to a skill that is
crucial to later reading comprehension–the ability to engage in inferencing. This article …

This study examines longitudinally how mothers structure shared book reading interactions
with their children across the preschool period, focusing on possible individual stylistic …

Home literacy surveys were collected from the primary caregiver of 1,044 2-to 5-year-old
children (M= 49.32 months, SD= 9.36) representing a wide range of socioeconomic …

These observations indicate how the organization of book reading events differs when
middle-to upper-class suburban parents read picture books to preverbal and verbal infants …

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 …

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 …