Publications

Publication details [#28412]

Pellegrini, A.D., Lee Galda, Ithel Jones and Jane Perlmutter. 1995. Joint reading between mothers and their head start children: Vocabulary development in two text formats. Discourse Processes 19 (3) : 441–463.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | mother-child conversation | reading | recall | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study on child vocabulary development in joint reading contexts, explores mother-child interaction strategies around familiar (newspaper toy advertisements) and less familiar expository texts (traditional children's trade books).