Children's storybooks are relevant resources for references to different emotions, both positive and negative, and provide an excellent opportunity for adults and children to discuss them, thereby promoting children's ...

Children's storybooks may be considered as an important resource for young children to learn about different mental states (emotions, desires, cognitions); however, mental states represented in stories vary, and may vary ...

Storybook reading has been recognized -Meibauer, 2011; Roberts, 2008; Stoltz et al., 2012; Van Horn & Fong, 2016; Walsh et al., 2014). The connections between reading and the linguistic gains in very young children may be ...

Two studies examined the effects of specific reading styles on vocabulary learning of at-risk preschool Chilean children (aged 3-5 yrs.) during shared book reading. Study 1 examined the effect of explicit instruction of ...

The present study is inserted in the Research Line of Curriculum, Teaching and Practices Scholars, in the Post Graduation Program in Education at UFSM (Federal University of Santa Maria RS Brazil). As objective of this ...