WWC Summary of Evidence for this Intervention
Shared Book Reading
Shared Book Reading encompasses practices that adults can use when reading with young children to enhance language and literacy skills. During shared book reading, an adult reads a book to an individual child or to a group of children and uses one or more planned or structured interactive techniques to actively engage the children in the text. The adult may direct the children’s attention to illustrations, print, or word meanings. The adult may engage children in discussions focused on understanding the meaning or sequence of events in a story or on understanding an expository passage. Adults may ask children questions, give explanations, and draw connections between events in the text and those in the children’s own lives as a way of expanding on the text and scaffolding children’s learning experiences to support language development, emergent reading, and comprehension. Importantly, the adult engages in one or more interactive techniques to draw attention to aspects of the text being read.
April 2015
Outcome domain
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Effectiveness rating
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Studies meeting standards
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Grades examined
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Students
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Improvement index
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Alphabetics
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3 studies meet standards
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PK |
356
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-- |
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Box, J. A., & Aldridge, J. (1993)
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PK |
49 |
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Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita S.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Fan, Xitao. (2010)
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PK |
288 |
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Lamb, H. A. (1986)
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PK |
19 |
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Comprehension
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5 studies meet standards
|
PK |
259
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-- |
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Bochna, C. R. (2010)
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PK |
36 |
|
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Box, J. A., & Aldridge, J. (1993)
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PK |
49 |
|
|
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Lamb, H. A. (1986)
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PK |
19 |
|
|
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Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Simmons, Deborah C.; Kwok, Oiman; Taylor, Aaron B.; Davis, Matthew J.; Kim, Minjung; Simmons, Leslie. (2011)
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PK |
125 |
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Walsh, Bridget A. (2009)
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PK |
30 |
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Language development
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4 studies meet standards
|
PK |
567
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-- |
|
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Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita S.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Fan, Xitao. (2010)
|
PK |
278 |
|
|
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Lamb, H. A. (1986)
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PK |
19 |
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Mason, Jana M.; And Others. (1990)
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PK |
232 |
|
|
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Mautte, Lois A. (1990)
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PK |
38 |
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Reading achievement
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1 study meets standards
|
PK |
38
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-- |
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Mautte, Lois A. (1990)
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PK |
38 |
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A group of closely related outcomes.
The number of studies that met WWC design standards and provide evidence of effectiveness. Selecting an item below will display all studies that met WWC design studies in the domain. Selecting a study citation will take you to more information on that study and its findings.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for study rating.
Grades of the students examined in the studies that met WWC design standards, which may not reflect the full range of grades for which the intervention may be used.
The number of students included in the studies that met WWC design standards.
An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for improvement index.
The indicator represents the highest level of similarity found between your students and each of the high-quality studies of the intervention. Three filled in ovals indicates that at least one study that met standards was conducted on students very similar to yours. Clicking on the indicator for a study will provide information on the similarity for each of the characteristics you selected.