Discussing stories: On how a dialogic reading intervention improves kindergartners’ oral narrative construction

Oral narrative skills are assumed to develop through parent–child interactive routines. One such routine is shared reading. A causal link between shared reading and narrative knowledge, however, has not been clearly established. The current research tested whether an 8-week shared reading intervention enhanced the fictional narrative skills of children entering formal education. Dialogic reading, a shared reading activity that involves...