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Does the Brown Banana Have a Beak? Preschool Children's Phonological Awareness as a Function of Parents' Talk about Speech Sounds
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Reese, Elaine; Robertson, Sarah-Jane; Divers, Sarah; Schaughency, Elizabeth – First Language, 2015
Children's phonological awareness develops rapidly in the preschool years and is an important contributor to later reading skill. This study addresses the role of parents' talk in preschool children's phonological awareness development. A community sample of 27 parents and their 3- to 4-year-old children participated in a new "Sound…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Phonological Awareness, Parent Child Relationship, Language Skills
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turned into a Butterfly: Children's and Parents' Enjoyment of Different Book Genres
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Robertson, Sarah-Jane L.; Reese, Elaine – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2017
This study aimed to examine which genres parents are reading to children and for themselves. Furthermore, it aimed to examine mothers' and fathers' shared reading strategies for different book genres in relation to children's language and literacy development. Parents shared a narrative and an expository book with their preschool-aged children.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Reading Material Selection, Parents, Language Acquisition