10-second review: Studied comments by adults and 3- and 4-year-old children when adults read storybooks and information books. Comments are longer by both adults and children when reading information books aloud.
Title: “Talk During Book Sharing Between Parents and Preschool children: A Comparison Between Storybook and Expository Book Conditions.” LH Price, A VanKleek, CT Huberty. Reading Research Quarterly (April/May/June 2009), 171-194.
Quote: “…parents were more likely to read the entire text during storybook sharing than they were during expository book sharing. Expository book sharing was longer in duration and resulted in higher rates of extratextual utterances by both parents and children.”
Quote: “The mean length of parent extratextual utterances was significantly longer in the expository book condition, and their talk contained significantly greater vocabulary diversity. These findings indicate that the genre of books can influence the amount of talk that takes place during book sharing, and it can alter the content, vocabulary diversity, and sentence length of extratextual utterances.”
Comment: Reading aloud nonfiction books leads to longer and more diversified vocabulary in discussions by both adults and children. RayS.
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