Shared Reading Within Latino Families: An Analysis of Reading Interactions and Language Use

• Published in: Bilingual research journal Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 431 - 452
• Main Authors: Jiménez, Terese C., Filippini, Alexis L., Gerber, Michael M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2006; National Association for Bilingual Education; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: Caregivers; Children & youth; Childrens picture books; Critical thinking; Emergent Literacy; England (Reading); Families & family life; Family Environment; Hispanic Americans; Intervention; Language Acquisition; Language Minorities; Language Skills; Language use; Linguistics; Listening comprehension; Literacy; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority Group Children; Monolingualism; Native languages; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Participation; Parent-child relations; Parents & parenting; Reading; Reading Research; Reading Strategies; Shared reading; Social interaction; Spanish language; Spanish Speaking; Story Reading; Teaching Methods; United Kingdom (Reading); New York; United States > US

Storybook reading research with monolingual families suggests that adult strategies used during shared reading provide greater opportunities for children's verbal participation while facilitating their language and literacy skills. Research of this type with linguistic minority children is rela...