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Relations between the home literacy environment and young children’s theory of mind by Tompkins, Virginia

“…Personal reading history, in particular reading fiction, is related to theory of mind in adulthood; yet little work has examined reading experiences and theory…”
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Grandparent support moderates the relation between socioeconomic status and children's cognitive development by Tompkins, Virginia, Feng, Xin

“…Grandparents support American families in many ways, but they have often been overlooked in research on typical families (e.g., parents raising children). We…”
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Mothers’ cognitive state talk during shared book reading and children’s later false belief understanding by Tompkins, Virginia

“…•Examined mothers’ cognitive state talk and children’s false belief understanding.•Examined cognitive state vocabulary, complement syntax, and…”
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Improving low-income preschoolers’ theory of mind: A training study by Tompkins, Virginia

“…•Examined a theory of mind training program for low-income preschoolers.•Examined whether training transferred to preschoolers’ social competence.•Training…”
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Parent discipline and pre-schoolers' social skills by Tompkins, Virginia, Villaruel, Eve

“…Educators recognize children's social competence as an indicator of school readiness. Children's social competence may be promoted prior to kindergarten…”
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False belief understanding and narrative comprehension in the preschool years by Tompkins, Virginia, Blosser, Michael K., Downing, Mackenzie

“…•Relations among preschoolers’ false belief and narrative skills were examined.•All narrative skills were related to false belief at Time 1.•There were also…”
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Inference generation, story comprehension, and language skills in the preschool years by Tompkins, Virginia, Guo, Ying, Justice, Laura M.

“…Several researchers have shown that children’s ability to make inferences is related to their reading comprehension. The majority of research on this topic has…”
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Theory of mind and text comprehension across the lifespan: A meta-analysis by Tompkins, Virginia, Montgomery, Derek E, Dore, Rebecca A, Lee, Bridget Kiger

“…Researchers argue that theory of mind (ToM) abilities are needed for text (listening or reading) comprehension. Although many studies have supported this…”
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The relation between parents' mental state talk and children's social understanding: A meta‐analysis by Tompkins, Virginia, Benigno, Joann P., Kiger Lee, Bridget, Wright, Bridget M.

“…Though there is empirical support for the relation between parents' mental state talk to children and children's social understanding, including false belief…”
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Mother‐child talk about mental states: The what, who, and how of conversations about the mind by Tompkins, Virginia, Montgomery, Derek E., Blosser, Michael K.

“…Research on parents’ mental state talk (MST) and children's social understanding is typically situated within a social constructivist approach, which asserts…”
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Maternal Inferential Input and Children's Language Skills by Tompkins, Virginia, Bengochea, Alain, Nicol, Susanna, Justice, Laura M.

“…Researchers have consistently found a link between the quality of early parent-child book-reading interactions and children's language skill. Two aspects of…”
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln Anyway? Mother-Child Reminiscing Across Levels of Abstraction by Tompkins, Virginia, Duffy, Kaylin, Haisley, Emily, Smith, Richard J

“…Researchers studying parent-child reminiscing in the preschool years have often focused on parents' and children's elaborative talk (i.e., provision of unique…”
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Mothers' Sophisticated Vocabulary Input and Children's Story Comprehension by Tompkins, Virginia, Meyer, Katrina, Justice, Laura M.

“…Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine mothers' sophisticated vocabulary while reminiscing with their preschool-aged children, and its…”
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Are there different pathways to explicit false belief understanding? General language and complementation in typical and atypical children by Farrar, M. Jeffrey, Benigno, Joann P., Tompkins, Virginia, Gage, Nicholas A.

“…•We evaluated the role of language in children’s false belief understanding.•We specifically compared the impact of complementation versus general language in…”
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Personalization in Mother-Child Emotion Talk Across Three Contexts by Kucirkova, Natalia, Tompkins, Virginia

“…An unexplored aspect of contextual variation in emotion talk is the extent to which the emotions mothers and children discuss relate to the child, mother, or…”
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Exploring factors related to preschool teachers’ self-efficacy by Guo, Ying, Justice, Laura M., Sawyer, Brook, Tompkins, Virginia

“…This study examined how teacher (teaching experience, perceptions of teacher collaboration and teacher influence) and classroom (children’s engagement)…”
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Speaking Your Mind: Language and Narrative in Young Children's Theory of Mind Development by Tompkins, Virginia, Farrar, M Jeffrey, Montgomery, Derek E

“…Research consistently finds that language and theory of mind are interrelated. The content and qualities of language that specifically predict theory of mind…”
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Personalization in Mother-Child Emotion Talk Across Three Contexts: Mothers and Children Personalizing Emotions by Kucirkova, Natalia, Tompkins, Virginia

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Empirically Based Profiles of the Early Literacy Skills of Children With Language Impairment in Early Childhood Special Education by Justice, Laura, Logan, Jessica, Kaderavek, Joan, Schmitt, Mary Beth, Tompkins, Virginia, Bartlett, Christopher

“…The purpose of this study was to empirically determine whether specific profiles characterize preschool-aged children with language impairment (LI) with…”
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Classroom Age Composition and Vocabulary Development Among At-Risk Preschoolers by Guo, Ying, Tompkins, Virginia, Justice, Laura, Petscher, Yaacov

“…Research Findings: The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relationship between classroom age composition and preschoolers' vocabulary gains…”
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