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How Engaged Are Infants And Toddlers While Picture Book Reading?, Zoe Lawless
How Engaged Are Infants And Toddlers While Picture Book Reading?, Zoe Lawless
Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders Undergraduate Honors Theses
Introduction: Literacy is a very important skill that begins to be acquired at birth. Most children start to develop pre-literacy skills by being read to by their parents or other adults around them. Being read aloud to can occur at many different ages and can start as early as infancy. As children grow, they interact and engage with books in different ways. This thesis aims to investigate the read-aloud behaviors of two different groups of young children, to reveal differences in engagement interactions among infants and young toddlers when being read picture books by their teacher.
Methods: The …