“…Although in the other half of the classrooms, pre-reading activities were observed, these activities were commonly limited to pointing to features of the book such as the title and illustrations, calling attention to the books they have read before and linking the book to the children's previous activities outside of class (for example, before reading a book on giraffes, the teacher reminded the visit they had to the zoo previously). These findings are in accordance with previous studies indicating that teachers do not spend sufficient time on pre-reading setting up activities and in general, reading alouds appear to be a stand-alone routine of the day without being part of other classroom activities or experiences (Damber, 2015) and suggest that in order to attract children's interests, reading areas need to be organized to be more physically and visually inviting to children (Justice, 2006;Kraemer, McCabe, & Sinatra, 2012;Roskos & Neumann, 2001;Tarım, 2015;Vukelich, Christie, & Enz, 2012) and pre-reading activities should be intellectually stimulating.…”