Comparison of Shared Reading versus Emergent Reading: How the Two Provide Distinct Opportunities for Early Literacy

Table 3

Descriptive statistics for language input variables across reading interaction conditions.

	𝑀	SD	𝑟^B	𝑡 value^B
Shared reading (𝑁 = 24)
Mother’s number of utterances	49.75	31.78	.84***	10.22***
Child’s number of utterances	19.54	11.99
Mother’s MLU^A	3.89	.69	−.04	4.96***
Child’s MLU^A	2.61	1.09
Mother’s number of questions	9.17	7.45	.26	6.52***
Child’s number of questions	2.58	4.12
Emergent reading (𝑁 = 25)
Mother’s number of utterances	46.72	26.64	.01	1.06
Child’s number of utterances	38.36	15.88
Mother’s MLU^A	3.38	.86	−.29	−2.17**
Child’s MLU^A	4.32	1.52
Mother’s number of questions	13.32	10.64	.18	8.92***
Child’s number of questions	1.16	1.55

Note: ^AMLU: mean length of utterance; ^B𝑡-tests and Pearson correlations were conducted using the log transformation of language input variables. ***𝑃 < .001, **𝑃 < .05.