This research aims to explore how preschool educators understand about raising children's reading motivation through operating classroom aesthetic reading environment. With one year qualitative research, sixteen 4-6 years old young were observed and interviewed. The first stage interviews were undergone with environmental guidance. After the physical class reading environment was adjusted into aesthetic perspective, children's reading motivation and attitudes were triggered. The second stage involved themed reading activities, including the child-centered extended reading activities, arranging parent-child and peers shared reading time, designing borrowing books home activities, promoting peers and parent-child shared reading, and classroom hot-popular reading books selection ballot. Data collection methods included observation, interviews, children's relative documents, drawings, and hands-on works. Based on analysis of research data, main results were extracted as below: young children's reading motivation including interest, perceived control, collaboration, involvement, and efficacy were promoted through classroom aesthetic reading environment and parent-child shared reading promotion activities. Finally, according to conclusion of this research, suggestions for relative teaching application and subsequent research were proposed as reference.

The participation of parents shared reading with children is a topic that has generated a lot of attention among many researchers in the world. For the use of picture story books which have caused positive impact on the child's learning process has also been recommended as the best strategies to develop children's aesthetic ability. The purpose of the study aims to investigate the effectiveness of parent-child shared reading in developing children's learning; and to investigate the key virtues of parent-child shared learning that are critical in development of child's aesthetic abilities. Ten pairs of mother-child shared reading aesthetic wordless storybook in preschool and at home were observed and interviewed. The results show the positive effects of quality accompany time, environment setting up, and skills to scaffold children within parent-child shared reading. Finally, according to conclusion of this research, suggestions for relative practical application were proposed.

The present study investigated whether and how themed food series of picture books integrated into preschool daily life activities and curriculum can elevate young children's healthy dietary habits. In order to realize whether young children can recognize the healthy dietary habits, understand the eating attitudes between themselves and the roles in the picture book, and identify with the healthy eating attitudes. 30 children (aged 4-6 years) and 10 of their parents participated in co-reading sessions using 10 selected themed picture books on three morning days in preschool every week for 18 weeks. These children were randomly selected from the researchers' three classes in one preschool. Within the child-centered integrated curriculum design, the reading style was either passive or interactive or combined with classroom group discussion model. From 18 weeks' observation, recording, semi-structured interview with children and parents, and children's work and file analysis, the results suggest that 1. Picture books are effective when children are actively involved; 2. Children recognized with characters' positive dietary attitudes in picture books. 3. Children could clearly point out the similarities and differences between the roles' attitudes in the picture books and their own real life dietary attitudes. 4. Children had ability in identifying with characters' positive dietary attitudes in picture books. 5. Facing peers in classroom showing negative response in verbal expressions, actions and emotions to healthy food, children could offer practical solutions for verbal communicating or body language to guide others to conduct appropriate and healthy dietary behaviors.

For the impact of parent-child reading picture books have on the child's learning process has been recommended at the elementary level as the appropriate strategies to bridge preschool and family education. The purpose of the study is firstly, to investigate the key virtues of the implementation in children's reading in preschool and at home; secondly, in terms of the challenges encountered to propose appropriately efficient solutions; thirdly, to enforce teachers' self-fulfillment and confidence in promoting young children's reading. Qualitative data were collected through observations, interviews, recording of anecdotes, adults' feedback sharing, and reflective journals from four projects, including advocating parent-child reading, inspiring young children's motivations to read, enhancing young children's interactions with picture books, and reading is funny. Data analysis included the sound and video records from teaching process, book list for learners, parents' sharing, teachers' sharing, researchers introspection daily, interviewing kids. According to these qualitative data, researchers adopted triangulation strategy to encode the data collected on the scene one by one. The results revealed four elements contributing in successful reading-extension activity, including environmental settings, appropriately developed activities during parent-child reading, the educators' scaffolding, and the educators' fulfillment in growth and self-professionalism. A last, the practical suggestions and possible directions for young children reading were proposed for the institute, preschool, educators and parents of early childhood education.

In an age with rapid development of science and technology, how to cultivate the young generation's scientific literacy becomes extremely important. The study aims to investigate the dynamic process of parent-child co-reading natural science storybooks. Through children's exploring and experimenting daily life science with parents' scaffolding in five reading strategies, including Predictive Strategies, Connective Strategies, Summary Strategies, Summary for Them Strategies, and Note Taking Strategies, the integrated information and analysis results were as follows: First, children with different learning styles had different strategies to read science books. Next, parents need to select appropriately tailor-made reading strategies to enhance children's reading motivation. Thirdly, parent-child co-reading strategies do help improving the children's scientific literacy; children hence had higher interest in absorbing and applying to natural science knowledge, ability as well as more positive attitude towards exploring science.