Initial research on maternal reminiscing style established clear and consistent individual
differences that vary along a dimension of maternal elaboration and that are related to …

Narratives, also called stories, can be found in conversations, children's play interactions,
reading material, and television programs. From infancy to adulthood, narrative …

Recent research on young children's memory for personal episodes provides new insights
into the phenomenon of infantile amnesia, first identified by Freud. New research indicates …

Research Findings: This study compared the unique effects of training low-income mothers
in dialogic reading versus elaborative reminiscing on children's oral language and emergent …

The differences documented in discourse across languages may be due to both cultural and
linguistic differences. For example, cultural differences in the expectation of performance …

This chapter examines the efficacy of a self-regulation intervention with some preschool
children. It investigates whether an intervention using circle time games improved …

The study evaluated the effects of the Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy on two
levels. The Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy integrated story grammar …

Stories are central to our world. We form our families, our communities, and our nations
through stories. It is through stories of our everyday experiences that each of us constructs …

This study investigated the narrative scaffolding styles of Spanish‐speaking and English‐
speaking mothers as they engaged their preschool‐aged children in family reminiscing and …

The contributions of mothers' and children's oral language to children's school readiness
were longitudinally examined among 75 low-income mothers and children. When children …