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Miss Bonnie Chow Wing Yin

She discovered that just two 20-minute sessions per week across eight weeks of dialogic reading can effectively improve children’s vocabulary knowledge and literacy skill. Dialogic reading is a specially-trained but easy-to-learn skill. It encourages children to interact with storybooks in a very active way. Parents ask children different types of questions that require them to elaborate on the text and express their ideas about the story freely. Later, children become the storyteller, and the parent becomes the facilitator and cheerleader for the child's ideas about the story. Her study has led to increased understanding of Chinese children’s early language and literacy skills development, as well as the effects of parents-child interaction on children’s cognitive development.