We did not find that the placement of teacher talk mattered interms of child receptive vocabulary outcomes. One explanation for the lack of a relationship stems from research showing that interactive reading benefits children’s expressive vocabulary specifically through active verbal involvement on the part of the child because it increases attention to words and provides production practice via child responses (Gonzalez et al., 2011).Second, our hypothesis that extended teacher vocabulary talk interms of duration and frequency would benefit both receptive andexpressive vocabulary was supported notably for duration of talk.Thus, duration of teacher association talk was significantly related