Improvement of Early Literacy Skills for Preschool Children at-Risk: Effects of Shared Story Reading

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of the shared story reading intervention on promot early literacy skills for preschool at-Risk. This study was quasi- experimental research design with pretest-posttest-follow-up with the control group. From two preschool centers, 30 children during a multi-level screening, included teacher introduction, imitation test and language development test. The participants were randomly assigned into either control or experimental group. Subjects of the experimental group, in 4 small groups, received 30 sessions of education, each session lasted 45 minutes three a week. Data were collected by Reading Readiness Test, and Test of Phonological Awareness. The results of Repeated Measures MANOVA indicated that a significant effect of program on increasing components of reading readiness and phonological awareness, in experimental group compared with the control group. While the differences were no significant for naming speed.