Untangling the effects of shared book reading: Multiple factors and their associations with preschool literacy outcomes

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 330-350

  Hindman, Annemarie H ^a   Connor, Carol M ^b   Jewkes, Abigail M ^c   Morrison, Frederick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Book reading; Literacy; Parents; Preschool; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349084671     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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