Knowledge of Storybooks as a Predictor of Young Children's Vocabulary

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 520-536

  Sénéchal, Monique ^a   LeFevre, Jo Anne ^a   Hudson, Ernie ^a   Lawson, E Penelope ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345950248     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.88.3.520     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Allen, L., Cipielewski, J., & Stanovich, K. E. (1992). Multiple indicators of children's reading habits and attitudes: Construct validity and cognitive correlates. Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, 489-503.
2. Anderson, R. C., & Freebody, P. (1981). Vocabulary knowledge. In J. Guthrie (Ed.), Comprehension and teaching: Research reviews (pp. 77-117). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
3. Arnold, D. H., Lonigan, C. J., Whitehurst, G. J., & Epstein, J. N. (1994). Accelerating language development through picture book reading: Replication and extension to a videotape training format. Journal of Educational Psychology, 86, 235-243.
4. Bus, A. G., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Pellegrini, A. D. (1995). Joint book reading makes for success in learning to read: A meta-analysis on intergenerational transmission of literacy. Review of Educational Research, 65, 1-21.
5. Carey, S. (1978). The child as word learner. In M. Halle, J. Bresnan, & G. A. Miller (Eds.), Linguistic theory and psychological reality (pp. 264-293). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Chaney, C. (1992). Language development, metalinguistic skills, and print awareness in 3-year-old children. Applied Psycholinguistics, 13, 485-514.
7. Chomsky, C. (1972). Stages in language development and reading exposure. Harvard Educational Review, 42, 1-33.
8. Cipielewski, J., & Stanovich, K. E. (1992). Predicting growth in reading ability from children's exposure to print. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 54, 74-89.
9. Crain-Thoreson, C., & Dale, P. S. (1992). Do early talkers become early readers? Linguistic precocity, preschool language, and emergent literacy. Developmental Psychology, 28, 421-429.
10. Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1990). Assessing print exposure and orthographic processing skill in children: A quick measure of reading experience. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 733-740.
11. Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1991). Tracking the unique effects of print exposure in children: Associations with vocabulary, general knowledge, and spelling. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83, 264-274.
12. Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1993). Children's literacy environments and early word recognition subskills. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 5, 193-204.
13. DeBaryshe, B. D. (1993). Joint picture-book reading correlates of early oral language skill. Journal of Child Language, 20, 455-461.
14. DeBaryshe, B. D. (1994). Maternal belief systems: Linchpin in the home reading process. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 16, 1-20.
15. Dickinson, D. K., & Snow, C. E. (1987). Interrelationships among prereading and oral language skills in kindergartners from two social classes. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2, 1-25.
16. Dickinson, D. K., & Tabors, P. O. (1991). Early literacy. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 6, 30-46.
17. Dunn, N. E. (1981). Children's achievement at school-entry age as a function of mothers' and fathers' teaching sets. Elementary School Journal, 81, 245-253.
18. Dunn, L., & Dunn, L. (1981). Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test -Revised. Circle Pines, MN: American Guidance Services.
19. Dunn, J., Wooding, C., & Herman, J. (1977). Mothers' speech to young children: Variation in context. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 19, 629-638.
20. Eller, R. G., Pappas, C. C., & Brown, E. (1988). The lexical development of kindergartners: Learning from written context. Journal of Reading Behavior, 20, 5-23.
21. Fitzgerald, J., Spiegel, D. L., & Cunningham, J. W. (1991). The relationship between parental literacy level and perceptions of emergent literacy. Journal of Reading Behavior, 23, 191-213.
22. Gardner, M. F. (1990). Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test (Revised). Novato, CA: Academic Therapy Publication.
23. Gleitman, L. (1990). The structural sources of verb meanings. Language Acquisition, 1, 3-55.
24. Hayes, D. P., & Ahrens, M. (1988). Vocabulary simplification for children: A special case of 'motherese'? Journal of Child Language, 15, 395-410.
25. Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
26. Hoff-Ginsberg, E. (1991). Mother-child conversation in different social classes and communicative settings. Child Development, 62, 782-796.
27. Hollingshead, A. B. (1975). Four factor index of social status. Unpublished manuscript, Yale University, Department of Sociology, New Haven, CT.
28. Lonigan, C. J., Anthony, J. L., & Burgess, S. R. (1995, March). Exposure to print and preschool-aged children's interest in literacy. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.
29. Markman, E. M. (1989). Categorization and naming in children. Cambridge. MA: MIT Press.
30. Mason, J. (1980). When do children begin to read: An exploration of four-year-old children's letter and word reading competencies. Reading Research Quarterly, 15, 203-227.
31. Mason, J. M., & Allen, J. (1986). A review of emergent literacy with implications for research and practice in reading. In E. Z. Rothkopf (Ed.), Review of research in education: Vol. 13. (pp. 3-47). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
32. McCarthy, D. (1970). McCarthy Scales of Children Abilities. New York: Psychological Corporation.
33. Morrow, L. M. (1983). Home and school correlates of early interest in literature. Journal of Educational Research, 76, 221-230.
34. Nagy, W. E., Anderson, R. C., Herman, P. A. (1987). Learning word meanings from context during normal reading. American Educational Research Journal, 24, 237-270.
35. Nagy, W. E., Herman, P. A., & Anderson, R. C. (1985). Learning words from context. Reading Research Quarterly, 20, 233-253.
36. Ninio, A. (1980). Picture book reading in mother-infant dyads belonging to two subgroups in Israel. Child Development, 51, 587-590.
37. Ninio, A., & Bruner, J. S. (1978). The achievement and antecedents of labeling. Journal of Child Language, 5, 1-15.
38. O'Connor, R. E., Slocum, T. A., & Jenkins, J. R. (1995). Transfer among phonological tasks in kindergarten: Essential instructional content. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87, 202-217.
39. Pellegrini, A. D., Perlmutter, J. C., Galda, L., & Brody, G. H. (1990). Joint book reading between Black Head Start children and their mothers. Child Development, 61, 443-453.
40. Pemberton, E. F., & Watkins, R. V. (1987). Language facilitation through stories: Recasting and modeling. First Language, 7, 79-89.
41. Robbins, C., & Ehri, L. C. (1994). Reading storybooks to kindergartners helps them learn new vocabulary words. Journal of Educational Psychology, 86, 54-64.
42. Scarborough, H. S., & Dobrich, W. (1994). On the efficacy of reading to preschoolers. Developmental Review, 14, 245-302.
43. Sénéchal, M. (1988, June). Preschoolers and their favorite storybooks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Canada.
44. Sénéchal, M., & Cornell, E. H. (1993). Vocabulary acquisition through shared reading experiences. Reading Research Quarterly, 28, 360-375.
45. Sénéchal, M., Cornell, E. H., & Broda, L. (1995). Vocabulary acquisition through shared reading experiences. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27, 317-337.
46. Sénéchal, M., Thomas, E. H., & Monker, J. A. (1995). Individual differences in 4-year-old children acquisition of vocabulary during storybook reading. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87, 218-229.
47. Share, D. L., Jorm, A. F., Maclean, R., Matthews, R., & Waterman, B. (1983). Early reading achievement, oral language ability, and a child's home background. Australian Psychologist, 18, 75-87.
48. Snow, C. E. (1983). Literacy and language: Relationships during the preschool years. Harvard Educational Review, 53, 165-189.
49. Snow, C. E., & Goldfield, B. A. (1983). Turn the page please: Situation-specific language learning. Journal of Child Language, 10, 551-569.
50. Snow, C. E., & Ninio, A. (1986). The contracts of literacy: What children learn from learning to read books. In W. H. Teale & E. Sulzby (Eds.), Emergent literacy: Writing and reading (pp. 116-138). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
51. Stahl, S. A. (1989). Task variation and prior knowledge in learning word meanings from context. In S. McCormick & J. Zutell (Eds.), Cognitive and social perspectives for literacy research and instruction (pp. 197-205). Chicago: The National Reading Conference.
52. Stanovich, K. E., & Cunningham, A. E. (1992). Studying the consequences of literacy within a literate society: The cognitive correlates of print exposure. Memory and Cognition, 20, 51-68.
53. Stanovich, K. E., & Cunningham, A. E. (1993). Where does knowledge come from? Specific associations between print exposure and information acquisition. Journal of Educational Psychology, 85, 211-229.
54. Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (1989). Exposure to print and orthographic processing. Reading Research Quarterly, 24, 402-433.
55. Sternberg, R., & Powell, J. (1983). Comprehending verbal comprehension. American Psychologist, 38, 878-893.
56. Teale, W. H., & Sulzby, E. (1986). Emergent literacy as a perspective for examining how young children become writers and readers. In W. H. Teale & E. Sulzby (Eds.), Emergent literacy: Writing and reading (pp. vii-xxv). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
57. Valdez-Menchaca, M. C., & Whitehurst, G. J. (1992). Accelerating language development through picture book reading: A systematic extension to Mexican day care. Developmental Psychology, 28, 1106-1114.
58. Wechsler, D. (1989). Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Revised. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation.
59. West, R. F., Stanovich, K. E., & Mitchell, H. R. (1993). Reading in the real world and its correlates. Reading Research Quarterly, 28, 34-51.
60. Wheeler, P. (1983). Context-related age characteristics in mothers' speech: Joint book reading. Journal of Child Language, 10, 259-263.
61. Whitehurst, G. J., Falco, F. L., Lonigan, C. J., Fischel, J. E., DeBaryshe, B. D., Valdez-Menchaca, M. C., & Caulfield, M. (1988). Accelerating language development through picture book reading. Developmental Psychology, 24, 552-559.