EJ511440 CS750496
Title: Joint Reading between Mothers and Their Head Start Children:
Vocabulary Development in Two Text Formats.Author(s): Pellegrini, A. D.; And Others
Source: Discourse Processes, v19 n3 p441-63 May-Jun 1995
Publication Date: 1995
ISSN: 0163-853X
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJFEB1996
Finds that children's word recall was best predicted by responsive
maternal strategies, such as encouraging children to talk about the
text, and children's modeling maternal strategies; also, word recall
and vocabulary was significantly correlated with children's language
generated around traditional format texts (trade books), not familiar
format texts (newspaper toy advertisements). (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education; *Mothers; *Parent Child Relationship;
Preschool Children; *Reading Aloud to Others; Reading Research;
*Text Structure; *Vocabulary Development
Identifiers: *Project Head Start; *Text Factors
