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

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

Resource Type:

Reports & Papers

Author(s):

MacDonald Colleen; Figueredo Lauren

Country:

Canada

Date Issued:

February 2010

Journal Title:

The Reading Teacher

Volume Number:

Issue Number:

Page Range:

404-419

Topics:

6. Programs, Interventions & Curricula > 6.2. Interventions/Curricula > 6.2.9. Early Literacy

13. International Child Care & Early Education > 13.1. Single-Country Studies

1. Children & Child Development > 1.2. Child Development & School Readiness > 1.2.6. Early Literacy

ISSN:

1936-2714

Online

0034-0561

Paper

Peer Reviewed:

Yes

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