EJ493520 PS522464
Title: A Picture Book Reading Intervention in Day Care and Home for
Children from Low-Income Families.Author(s): Whitehurst, Grover J.; And Others
Source: Developmental Psychology, v30 n5 p679-89 Sep 1994
Publication Date: 1994
ISSN: 0012-1649
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAR1995
Studied effects
of an interactive book-reading program with children attending day-care
centers whose language development was delayed by 10 months. Children
were read to by teachers and parents; read to by parents only; or
in a control group. Educationally and statistically significant
effects of the reading intervention were found at posttest and follow-up
for expressive vocabulary. (TM)
Descriptors: *Cognitive Development; Day Care Centers; *Language
Acquisition; *Language Proficiency; Low Income Groups; Preschool
Children; Reading Aloud to Others; Vocabulary
Identifiers: *Interactive Reading
