Value added: Digital modeling of dialogic questioning promotes positive parenting during shared reading.

ABSTRACT: American parents describe bonding with their child as a primary reason for engaging in shared picture book reading. One prominent reading intervention (dialogic reading) reliably increases language outcomes, but until recently, has not been evaluated for how well it promotes warm parent-child interactions. In this study, a digital application designed to promote parent-child conversation by modeling dialogic questioning also increased mutuality, positivity, and on-task behaviors. Three- and 4-year-old American children (n = 73) and their parents were randomly assigned to read 10 times at home either: (a) an eBook with a character who modeled dialogic questioning (experimental); (b) a version of the same eBook without modeling (control); or (c) to choose between versions for each rea

SUBMITTER: Stuckelman ZD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9664943 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature