One such article is entitled “Quality of Adult Book Reading Affects Children’s Emergent Literacy,” by Elaine Reese and Adell Cox.2 This article discusses how different styles of reading to children (which they call the describer style, the comprehender style and the performance-oriented style) impact children’s literacy, and will be used as an example throughout this Research Brief. It is hoped that, by the end of this brief, you will be able to understand and critique this article, and others like it.