What does JBR stand for?

Experiences with symbol systems, such as engaging in joint book reading or graphic representations, such as painting and drawing (Pinto, Accorti Gaman nossi, & Cameron, 2006; Pinto, Accorti Gamannossi, & Cameron, 2008).

While this trend, known as the Matthew Effect (Stanovich, 1986), seems to occur with any type of joint book reading experience, exceptions can be found in the extant literature.

The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions during joint book reading, ACIRI helps parents promote the development of emergent literacy skills, helps early childhood educators improve and individualize their teaching of these skills, and helps family literacy programs provide evaluation data that demonstrates their practices are effective.

Joint book reading makes for success in learning to read: A meta-analysis on intergenerational transmission of literacy.

The positive effects of joint book reading (JBR) between parents and children have been widely presumed.

The second explores joint book reading among parents and very young children.

Joint book reading is important, because it creates a situation wherein parent and child can engage in book-focused and meaning based conversations that expand linguistic awareness and disembed thinking from firsthand experience (Bus, van Ijzendoorn, & Pellegrini, 1995; Heath, 1983).