title: Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life.
abstract: About half of 2,581 low-income mothers reported reading daily to their children. At 14 months, the odds of reading daily increased by the child being firstborn or female. At 24 and 36 months, these odds increased by maternal verbal ability or education and by the child being firstborn or of Early Head Start status. White mothers read more than did Hispanic or African American mothers. For English-speaking children, concurrent reading was associated with vocabulary and comprehension at 14 months, and with vocabulary and cognitive development at 24 months. A pattern of daily reading over the 3 data points for English-speaking children and daily reading at any 1 data point for Spanish-speaking children predicted children's language and cognition at 36 months. Path analyses suggest reciprocal and snowballing relations between maternal bookreading and children's vocabulary.
authors.affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. hraikes@neb.rr.com
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Raikes
authors.forename: Barbara Alexander
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Gayle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Luze
authors.forename: Catherine S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Tamis-LeMonda
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brooks-Gunn
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Constantine
authors.forename: Louisa Banks
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Tarullo
authors.forename: H Abigail
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Raikes
authors.forename: Eileen T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
mesh_terms: D001076:Aptitude; D001722:Birth Order; D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018479:Early Intervention, Educational; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology*; D011932:Reading; D012737:Sex Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014825:Vocabulary; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology; D001741:Black or African American