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.

Reviewed Research

Early Childhood Education

April 2015

Outcome domain	Studies meeting standards	Grades examined	Students	Improvement index
Alphabetics	3 studies meet standards	PK	356	--
	Box, J. A., & Aldridge, J. (1993)	PK	49	0
	Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita S.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Fan, Xitao. (2010)	PK	288	9
	Lamb, H. A. (1986)	PK	19	4
Comprehension	5 studies meet standards	PK	259	--
	Bochna, C. R. (2010)	PK	36	20
	Box, J. A., & Aldridge, J. (1993)	PK	49	0
	Lamb, H. A. (1986)	PK	19	5
	Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Simmons, Deborah C.; Kwok, Oiman; Taylor, Aaron B.; Davis, Matthew J.; Kim, Minjung; Simmons, Leslie. (2011)	PK	125	2
	Walsh, Bridget A. (2009)	PK	30	4
Language development	4 studies meet standards	PK	567	--
	Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita S.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Fan, Xitao. (2010)	PK	278	3
	Lamb, H. A. (1986)	PK	19	-12
	Mason, Jana M.; And Others. (1990)	PK	232	3
	Mautte, Lois A. (1990)	PK	38	18
Reading achievement	1 study meets standards	PK	38	--
	Mautte, Lois A. (1990)	PK	38	-8