Book reading interactions between African American and Puerto Rican Head Start children and their mothers

• DOI: 10.1177/1468798405058683
• Publication Date: 2005-11-07T11:42:55Z
• Authors: Carol Scheffner H...; Diana Nimmo; Risa Cohen; Heather Clemons D...; Amy Achenbach Joh...
• Keywords: Puerto rican; Head start; Assertiveness

In keeping with a sociocultural view of children’s literacy development, this study investigated the book reading behaviors African American and Puerto Rican mothers their Head Start children. Ten 10 children participated. The communicative produced during were analyzed styles dyads also identified. Results revealed that read text from books, responded to asked questions most frequently. mothers’ utterances, labels/comments, significantly more labels/comments than did mothers. had higher assertiveness ratios counterparts. Four identified in two groups. Implications for developing interventions incorporate families’ practices are discussed.