Exploring the variety of parental talk during shared book reading and its contributions to preschool language and literacy: Evidence from the early childhood longitudinal study-birth cohort

Reading and Writing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 287-313

  Hindman, Annemarie H ^a   Skibbe, Lori E ^b   Foster, Tricia D ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Book reading; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort; Language; Literacy; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027957005     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: 15730905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-013-9445-4     Document Type: Article

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