Susan S.H. Sim|Donna Berthelsen|Sue Walker|Jan M. Nicholson|Ruth Fielding?Barnsley
A shared reading intervention with parents to enhance young children's early literacy skills
Queensland University of Technology|University of Tasmania|Queensland University of Technology|Queensland University of Technology|Parenting Research Centre|Parenting Research Centre
parental reading children early age shown enhance childrens emergent literacy skillsa pragmatic randomized controlled trial rct used investigate effects two forms shared reading interventions childrens language literacy skillsparents 80 preparatory year children outer suburban schools australian metropolitan city trained use shared reading strategies eightweek home interventionfamilies assigned one three groups dialogic reading dr dialogic reading addition print referencing dr pr attentionmatched control groupthe sample comprised 42 boys 38 girls ranging age 49 years 63 years 55 sd 03data collected pre post three months followupmeasures assessed childrens oral language receptive expressive vocabulary phonological awareness rhyme word completion alphabet knowledge concepts printanalyses change pre post showed significant effects dr dr pr groups compared control group three six measures expressive language rhyme concepts printat 3month followup assessment two intervention groups maintained significantly better performance measure concepts print onlyat time points group differences dr drpr conditionsthese findings illustrate potential brief home focused intervention promoting childrens emergent literacy