storybook reading

collocation in English

meaningsofstorybookandreading

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storybook
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈstɔː.ri.bʊk/
us
/ˈstɔːr.i.bʊk/
(of real life situations) happy and pleasant in the way that situations in children's stories ...
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reading
noun
uk
/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
us
/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
the skill or activity of getting information ...
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(Definition ofstorybookandreadingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This finding suggests that asking children questions requiring them to produce novel words is an important element in word acquisition duringstorybookreading.
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Investigations of the relation betweenstorybookreadingand children's language development are conducted to address two important and related issues.
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In this study the task is jointstorybookreading.
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In typicalstorybookreadingsituations, parents and children usually do not engage in the teaching of novel ' puppet ' words that are unfamiliar to both parties.
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First, parents were asked to report about frequency of parent-childstorybookreadingat home.
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Jointstorybookreadingcan be expected to enhance knowledge of late acquired morphological structures that occur frequently in written narratives.
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More specifically, children tended to become more active participants in the jointstorybookreadingtask as the book became more familiar.
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However, although these maternalstorybookreadingstyles were relatively consistent across the 18-month time span of the study, they were not as consistent across types of books.
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Many studies have looked at the effects of jointstorybookreadingper se on different aspects of child behavior.
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Tarplee 1996 investigated interaction between caretaker and child during the activity ofstorybookreading0 showing.
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The study included threestorybookreadingconditions : single-reading, repeated-reading and questioning.
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Storybookreadingresearch 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.
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Many of them focus onstorybookreadingor joint-book reading.
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Storybookreadingcan improve a child's print awareness when the parent (or other adult such as a teacher) uses a technique referred to as print referencing.
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Changes in maternal/child discourse across repeated storybook readings.
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