Children's Literacy Experiences in Low-Income Families: The Content of Books Matters

Autor/inn/en	Luo, Rufan; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Mendelsohn, Alan L.
Titel	Children's Literacy Experiences in Low-Income Families: The Content of Books Matters
Quelle	In: Reading Research Quarterly, 55 (2020) 2, S.213-233 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-0553
DOI	10.1002/rrq.263
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Books; Young Children; Low Income Groups; Minority Groups; Family Environment; Mothers; Interaction; Parent Child Relationship; Picture Books; Language Usage; Age Differences; Family Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Frühe Kindheit; Ethnische Minderheit; Familienmilieu; Mother; Mutter; Interaktion; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Sprachgebrauch; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem
Abstract	The authors examined children's access to books in 153 four-year-olds from low-income, U.S. ethnic-minority families. Mothers reported on the number of books available to their children and the variety of books their children had, such as concept books about letters, numbers, and shapes and narrative books about cultural beliefs and relationships. Mothers also reported on the frequency of mother-child book-sharing interactions. The authors coded characteristics of book-sharing interactions from videos of mother-child sharing of a wordless book. Most children had a variety of concept books but few narrative books. Children who were later born and who had English-speaking (vs. Spanish-speaking) parents had a greater variety of narrative books than did their counterparts, and children living with their father and mother had a greater variety of narrative and concept books than those who did not reside with their father. The variety of narrative books predicted children's narrative contributions during book sharing through the mediator of mothers' questions about the story. In contrast, the variety of concept books predicted children's referential contributions (e.g., "That's a tree") through the mediator of mothers' referential questions (e.g., "What's that?"). Household composition, home language use, and the content of books shape the early literacy experiences of children from low-income, ethnic-minority families. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01