It’s been a slow bumpy road back from the all-virtual all-remote lab meetings and research studies of late 2020 and 2021, but this summer we’ve been watering our research seeds so that in the new academic year we’ll see some new work growing

First, we’ve been reading (of course!) and writing, and have a big new paper ready to share summarizing 50 years (!) of developmental psychologists’ and early education researchers’ approaches to gathering and coding and measuring all the fun, messy, and incredibly rich extra-textual conversation that parents and children have alongside the words in the books as they read aloud. There’s so many ways to organize all that conversation, and so many interesting factors that impact it – read all about it here in our open access preprint!