Reports on a preliterate child's retelling of a story which she heard in an initial session and retold each week for eight weeks. Results suggest a child who is read to can use repeated retelling activity and eventually render the story so close to actual text that advances into reading may occur. (Author/BB)

This study has been done to gather data as to whether there is improvement in vocabulary development, reading comprehension and reading fluency when a child is reading aloud and he or she has a reading companion as opposed to not having a reading companion. As this literature review indicates there has been a lot of research on the benefits of…