Enhancing parent-child shared book reading interactions: Promoting references to the book's plot and socio-cognitive themes

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-122

  Aram, Dorit ^a   Fine, Yaara ^b   Ziv, Margalit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b School for Gifted and Excellent Students   (Israel)

Author keywords

Book's plot; Early home intervention; Low socioeconomic status; Parent child share book reading; Preschool children; Social cognition; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870015469     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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