>I simply pointed out that the correlation you pointed out may not be causal, and asked whether the intervention you propose has been shown to be effective. >I

>I simply pointed out that the correlation you pointed out may not be causal, and asked whether the intervention you propose has been shown to be effective. >It sounds like the answer is 'no'. I answered your question, and the answer was not "no". You're putting words in my mouth. Nice decorum. Is that your method of creating an illusion of making a point? Ignoring my general reluctance to play fetch as a matter of debating someone that has no subject matter expertise. I said that your request asks for overly specific variables that are more than covered by orthodox child development research and practice. Have you heard children making up songs, stories, and narratives while playing? Can illiterate parents tell stories independent of reading? Can they do it while using the pictures in the child's book? The fault that invalidates your variable is that children will independently pick up books, regardless of parents. What they tend to do with those books, pre-literacy, are the building blocks of later literacy. Additionally, this process can be helped if the child incidentally happens to see literacy modeled on TV for example. Your question is roughly parallel to asking a doctor to prove that having nutritious food in a house is healthy for a child, even if the parents themselves choose personal malnourishment. If there is a chance that the child will reach out and put the better food in their mouth, then it is worth it. Double so if the parent comes to understand that the child enjoys the better food, and so begins looking to feed them with it. This is precisely what happens in child development with books and stories. Reading the words on the page isn't even required for many years. Better? Yours is a nonsense request that comes from a place of either bottom-barrel debate tactics or a weird level of ignorance that doesn't deserve anyone's time aside from the expert assuring you that you're wrong. I have a Master of Science in a child development domain as well as a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders. I'm assuring you that you are wrong. If you do not believe me, then consult a textbook or google scholar. Assuming that you'd know what you'd need to read across the domain. >Giving books to illiterate parents is not going to result in stories being read to children. I prior explained why this is wrong.