Ö. Ece Demir?Lira|Lauren Applebaum|Susan Goldin?Meadow|Susan C. Levine
Parents’ early book reading to children: Relation to children's later language and literacy outcomes controlling for other parent language input
University of Iowa|University of Chicago|Museum of Science|Museum of Science and Industry|University of Chicago|University of Chicago|University of Chicago
abstract widely believed reading preschool children promotes language literacy skills yet whether early parentchild book reading index generally rich linguistic input unique predictor later outcomes remains unclear address question asked whether naturally occurring parentchild book reading interactions 1 25 yearsofage predict elementary school language literacy outcomes controlling quantity talk parents provide children family socioeconomic status childrens early language skill find quantity parentchild book reading interactions predicts childrens later receptive vocabulary reading comprehension internal motivation read decoding external motivation read math skill controlling factors importantly also find parent language occurs book reading interactions sophisticated parent language outside book reading interactions terms vocabulary diversity syntactic complexity