citation pearl growing search

A citation pearl growing search is when a searcher builds on each search, zeroing in on what they are looking for. I wanted to learn more about parents reading to children at home. I used the Project Muse database. I entered the search terms parents, reading, and children. I got 6,877 hits. The fifth hit was an article called The Contribution of Parenting to Ethnic and Racial Gaps in School Readiness by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Lisa Markman. One of the subject headings of the article was Readiness for school--social aspects--United States. I clicked that and was taken to a subject heading list and I chose the reading -- parent participation tab. There was one article and it was useful and interesting. Here is the hit.

McArthur, Duncan.Adamson, Lauren.Deckner, Deborah F.As Stories Become Familiar: Mother-Child Conversations During Shared ReadingMerrill-Palmer Quarterly - Volume 51, Number 4, October 2005, pp. 389-411 - Article[View PDF] Subject Headings:Mother and child.Reading -- Parent participation.Children -- Books and reading.Abstract
The interactions of 24-, 30-, and 36-month-old children and their mothers reading two initially unfamiliar books were observed three times over a 2-week period. Coding characterized both the content and the role of their utterances as they discussed the stories. Utterance content depended on child age but changed little with increasing story familiarity. Focus on narrative intangibles such as characters' feelings and explanations of actions increased from 24 to 30 months, and the number of children who asked questions about these intangibles also increased with age. In contrast, utterance role depended primarily on story familiarity and varied only slightly with child age. The implications of these findings for the child's emerging narrative competence are discussed.