Closing the gap early: Implementing a literacy intervention for at-risk kindergartners in urban schools

Author(s): MacDonald, Colleen; Figueredo, Lauren
Date Issued: February 2010
Description: An examination of the impact of a kindergarten tutoring program on the oral-language and emergent-literacy skills of children over course of the kindergarten school year for 51 children in the treatment compared to 45 children in the comparison group in a bilingual kindergarten in central Canada
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Journal Title: The Reading Teacher
Volume Number: 63
Issue Number: 5
Page Range: 404-419
Topics: Children & Child Development > Child Development & School Readiness > Early Literacy

International Child Care & Early Education > Single-Country Studies

Programs, Interventions & Curricula > Interventions/Curricula > Early Literacy
Country: Canada
ISSN: 0034-0561 Paper
1936-2714 Electronic
Peer Reviewed: yes
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