Literacy promotion for families participating in the Women, Infants, and Children program

Author(s): Whaley, Shannon; Jiang, Lu; Gomez, Judy; Jenks, Eloise
Date Issued: March 2011
Description: An investigation into the effect of a bilingual early literacy intervention on both academic measures of children's school readiness and the children's home literacy environments, based on information from 102 families who received four years of the intervention, 103 families who received 2 years of the intervention, and 200 families in a control group from Los Angeles County, California
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Journal Title: Pediatrics
Volume Number: 127
Issue Number: 3
Page Range: 454-461
Topics: Children & Child Development > Child Development & School Readiness

Children & Child Development > Special Needs Children & Special Child Populations > Native Language

Programs, Interventions & Curricula > Interventions/Curricula > Early Literacy
Country: United States
States: CALIFORNIA
ISSN: 0031-4005 Paper
1098-4275 Online
Peer Reviewed: yes
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