Enhancing Preschoolers’ Executive Functions Through Embedding Cognitive Activities in Shared Book Reading

Given evidence that early executive functioning sets the stage for a broad range of subsequent outcomes, researchers have sought to identify ways to foster these cognitive capacities. The current series of studies sought to design, develop, and provide evidence for the efficacy of embedding cognitive activities in a commonplace activity—shared reading of a children’s book. The book, Quincey Quokka’s Quest, required children to control their...