Making Story Time a Literacy Event for the Young Child

A literacy event is any action or sequence, involving one or more persons in which the production and/or comprehension of print plays a role (Anderson, Teale & Estrada, 1980). Story reading by a parent or teacher is perhaps the single most effective literacy event in a young child\u27s experience with written language. Increasingly, reports suggest children\u27s development of skills associated with ease of reading acquisition are enhanced with regular readings of storybooks both prior to and concomitant with formal instruction