Shared Story Book Reading to Enhance Early Literacy Skills for Preschoolers
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This article aims to study language development, early literacy skills, and shared story book reading to enhance early literacy skills for preschoolers.
Early literacy skills are early childhood reading and writing behaviors that occur before children enter formal schooling. Children develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing concurrently and sequentially rather than gradually. Shared story book reading is participation in reading between parents and children that can develop language and early literacy skills, especially in early childhood, which is an important time for laying the foundation for further education. Shared story book reading strategies include dialogic reading, in which parents ask questions and respond to their children’s interests and initiatives during reading. Print referencing is a strategy in which parents use explicit illustrated prints to encourage children to focus on what needs to be learned through reading. Both of these strategies can have an impact on children's reading skills.
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