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Article: Quantity, quality, children's characteristics, and vocabulary learning.(review of research)
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- Childhood Education
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Reading books to children provides the opportunity for learning new vocabulary. The specific effect of reading to children appears to depend upon how often the child is read to (Beals, DeTemple, & Dickinson, 1994; Burns & Blewitt, 2000; Neuman, 1999; Robbins & Ehri, 1994; Senechal, 1997) or the style of reading by the parent, such as the cognitive demand level of questions asked of the child (Guthridge, 2002; Haden, Reese, & Fivush, 1996; Justice, 2002; Leseman & de Jong, 1998; Reese & Cox, 1999; van Kleeck & Beckley-McCall, 2002; van Kleeck, Gillam, Hamilton, & McGrath, 1997). Children's characteristics, such as current level of vocabulary skill, socioeconomic status ...