Discussing stories: On how a dialogic reading intervention improves kindergartners' oral narrative construction

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-24

  Lever, Rosemary ^a   Sénéchal, Monique ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Books; Early childhood; Language development; Narrative construction; Shared reading; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NARRATION; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77957888854     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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