Fathers talking and reading with their 3-year-olds during shared bookreading

![CDATA[This study looks at parental views on child development, co-parenting practices, and role division. Shared bookreading is known to benefit children's language and literacy development (e.g., e.g., Mol & Bus, 2011). However, little attention has been directed at fathers reading to their children and the impact on child language development (Baker, 2013; Baker, Vernon-Feagans, & the Family Life Project Investigators, 2015). Fathers contribute uniquely to children's development (Cabrera, Volling, & Barr, 2018) and research has demonstrated that when fathers read to their children, this can impact children's language development (Duursma, Pan, & Raikes, 2008; Quach, Sarkadi, Napiza, Wake, Loughman, & Goldfield, 2018). This study looked at how 21 Australian fathers talked and read with their 3-year-olds during shared bookreading. Results showed that fathers were actively engaged with their children during shared bookreading and used a variety of strategies to discuss the book and the story with their young children. Fathers were well attuned to children's language level as demonstrated by questions fathers asked about the meaning of words or by the explanations provided about the story and difficult words.]]