Surfacing complexity in shared book reading: The role of affordance, repetition and modal appropriation in children's participation

Adult-child shared-book-reading (SBR) is an everyday practice that fundamental to young children's early engagement with literature. Its potential for supporting participation in literacy of continuing interest parents, practitioners, researchers and policymakers alike. However, there limited research involving critical examination the processes involved SBR, particularly interaction beyond verbal language ways which differing social contexts influence participation. Through close two involvement eight SBR episodes using a multimodal lens, this paper surfaces complexity different previous experience text afford differential narrative interpretations. The findings contribute understandings how practices, role affordance, repetition modal appropriation, shape