Parents' early book reading to children: Relation to children's later language and literacy outcomes controlling for other parent language input.

ABSTRACT: It is widely believed that reading to preschool children promotes their language and literacy skills. Yet, whether early parent-child book reading is an index of generally rich linguistic input or a unique predictor of later outcomes remains unclear. To address this question, we asked whether naturally occurring parent-child book reading interactions between 1 and 2.5 years-of-age predict elementary school language and literacy outcomes, controlling for the quantity of other talk parents provide their children, family socioeconomic status, and children's own early language skill. We find that the quantity of parent-child book reading interactions predicts children's later receptive vocabulary, reading comprehension, and internal motivation to read (but not decoding, external motivation to

SUBMITTER: Ece Demir-Lira O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6927670 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature