The Story Behind Parent-child Book-reading Interactions: Specific Relations to Later Language and Reading Outcomes.

Children enter school with wide differences in their language and reading skills. The gap persists over time and has important implications for later achievement. Cunningham and Stanovich (1997) find that differences in reading at 1st grade predict reading 10 years later, at 11th grade. The roots of the differences at the early school years can be traced back to preschool ages. During preschool years, children develop a range of literacy-related...