When adults read to their children, they can tailor their comments and questions to reflect their children's language and cognitive levels. When reading with younger children, they focus on vocabulary development. When children are read to by adults, they can acquire new vocabulary, engage with a book by asking or answering questions, and learn book management skills. Children can also talk about the illustrations in the book and can be asked questions about the illustrations to express their syntactic knowledge using phases and short sentences when answering these