The Effects of Children’s Preschool Education and Mothers’ StorybookReading on the Development of Social Skills

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between the previous preschool education of children, mothers frequency of storybook reading, , the expertise of mothers in choosing storybooks andchildren s social skills.The study was carried out with the six years old children, their teachers and mothers at a preschool in the city center of Kilis. Four teachers, 91 children and their mothers were involved in the study. The teachers filled out the “Social Skills Rating Scale” developed by Avcıoğlu (2007). Mothers in the study filled out the demographic questionnaire and “Mothers’ Expertise in Choosing Storybooks for Children” developed by Aram and Aviram in 2009 and adapted into Turkish culture by the researchers. The effects of the previous preschool experience of children, the children’s storybook choosing expertise score of mothers, and the mothers storybook reading frequency scores on the children’s social skills were analyzed with the hierarchical regression technique.The results indicated that the some social skills of children were related with the mothers’ storybook reading frequency and their expertise levels in choosing storybooks as well as previous preschool education experience of children.

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Social Skills , Storybook Readingfor Children , Choosing Storybooks.

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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