A B S T R A C TThis study examined the relation between exposure to shared book reading and Spanish-speaking English learners' (ELs'; n = 102) narrative production and comprehension skills in kindergarten (mean age = 6.12 years). Audio-and videotaped book-reading sessions in Spanish were coded in terms of teachers' extratextual talk and gestures. Using a silent cartoon as a prompt, ELs' fall and spring story retellings in Spanish were transcribed, coded, and compared on micro-(e.g., word tokens) and macrostructure skills (story structure); story comprehension was assessed using multiple-choice questions. Results revealed that teachers' extratextual talk predicted ELs' narrative production (story structure) gains in the spring. Narrative comprehension gains were positively associated with teachers' gestures. Findings suggest a nonuniform influence of shared book reading on ELs' narrative skills, such that different features of the shared book-reading experience target specific skills.
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