Using the terms" literacy" and" reading" interchangeably, this monograph is intended to
provide a research baseline for teachers, policymakers, decisionmakers and other …

Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children's understanding of
picture storybooks—the first to focus specifically on young children. Relevant to …

Early childhood education is a field that includes practitioners in nursery schools,
elementary schools, Head Start centers, child care centers, family homes, and other …

The authors review the research on response to literature and on classroom implementation
of reader response activities. In so doing, they explore what we have learned over the years …

These studies also problematize and complicate the concept of cultural representation
within literature by utilizing critical content analysis and critical theories. These theories …

This article reviews research to examine how teaching and learning are improved with the
use of narrative story materials. Stories help to focus the reader's attention and build …

The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with teacher and parent scaffolding
were investigated in an experimental study. A total of 24 teachers and 400 children in …

The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention were assessed in a randomized field
trial involving 552 students in 10 schools. In this study, fourth-grade children received eight …

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current
research on adult book reading to children. The authors, drawn from around the world, are …

For all of us the book is a central “pivot”(Holland et al., 2003, p. 61) through which it is
possible for us to focus our conversations and examine what we know and how we know it …