Keith Smolkowski, Anthony Biglan, Manuel Barrera, Ted Taylor, Carol Black, Jason Blair
Schools and homes in partnership (SHIP): long-term effects of a preventive intervention focused on social behavior and reading skill in early elementary school
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research
current review quantitative metaanalysis available empirical evidence related parentpreschooler reading several outcome measures selecting studies included metaanalysis focused studies examining frequency book reading preschoolers results support hypothesis parentpreschooler reading related outcome measures language growth emergent literacy reading achievement overall effect size 59 indicates book reading explains 8 variance outcome measures results support hypothesis book reading particular affects acquisition written language register effect parentpreschooler reading dependent socioeconomic status families several methodological differences studies however effect seems become smaller soon children become conventional readers able read