100 children go to school: Connections and disconnections in literacy development in the year prior to school and the first year of school
An investigation into the correlation between the acquisition of emergent literacy skills and the early experiences of children in school settings, based on a sample of 100 children from five locations in Australia
Reports & Papers
2008-09 kindergarten screening results and voluntary prekindergarten (VPK) education program: 2009-10 fact sheet
A presentation of results from an assessment of children’s school readiness, with a focus on children’s emergent literacy skills, based on data on children who attended, voluntary prekindergarten, non-voluntary prekindergarten, or did not attend prekindergarten
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Aboriginal young children's language and literacy development: Progress, promising practices, and needs
A compendium of information on the speech and language development of aboriginal children under six years old living in Canada, and a proposal for a national strategy to support the language and literacy development of these children
Reports & Papers
Aboriginal young children's language and literacy development: Progress, promising practices, and needs [Executive summary]
A summary of a compendium of information on the speech and language development of aboriginal children under six years old living in Canada, and a proposal for a national strategy to support the language and literacy development of these children
Executive Summary
Access to print for children in poverty: Differential effects of adult mediation and literacy-enriched play settings on environmental and functional print tasks
An article on the effects of adult interaction and literacy environment on literacy development in Head Start children.
Reports & Papers
Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in Mandarin infant-directed speech
A comparison between the acoustics and inflection of language of Mandarin-Chinese mothers when speaking to their 10-12 month-old infants and when speaking to adults, based on vocal recordings of 16 mothers
Reports & Papers
Acquisition of hearing, listening and speech skills by and during key stage 1
An examination of the relationship between effective classroom teaching and factors that may affect listening and speech skills in children between the ages of 5 and 7, including classroom acoustic environments, reduced hearing sensitivity, and underdeveloped listening skills
Other
The acquisition of literacy: Reframing definitions, paradigms, ideologies, and practices
A discussion of a contextual theory of literacy acquisition, which views literacy as related to an individual's construction of self and environment
Other
The acquisition of literacy skills in 4 and 5 year olds
An examination of literacy skills acquisition in 16 4 and 5 year old preschoolers in a School Readiness program in a medium sized school district in southwestern Minnesota
Reports & Papers
Action speaks louder than words: Young children differentially weight perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn verbs
An exploration of the ways that children utilize perceptual, social, and linguistic cues in order to learn verbs, using data from three experiments conducted with 21- to 24-month-old children
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Added value of dialogic parent-child book readings: A meta-analysis
An analysis of data from multiple studies on of the effects of dialogic parent-child book reading on the vocabulary skills of young children
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Adults' and children's language in different situational contexts in Italian nursery and infant schools
An analysis of children’s language development, and educators’ and teachers’ child-directed speech in both Italian nursery schools for children 6 through 36 months and infant schools for children 38 through 72 months
Reports & Papers
Advancing early literacy learning for all children: Implications of the NELP report for dual-language learners
A discussion of the implications of the findings of National Early Literacy Panel for the early education of children who are dual language learners
Other
Aesthetic experience and early language and literacy development
An exploration of the connections between theory and research in language development and children’s engagement with the arts, and their implications for early childhood classroom practice
Other
African American preschoolers' language, emergent literacy skills, and use of African American English: A complex relation
An examination of the relation between Head Start African American preschoolers' use of African American English and their language and emergent literacy skills
Reports & Papers
Age and schooling effects on emergent literacy and early reading skills
A longitudinal study examining age and schooling on emergent literacy and early reading skills, based on a sample of 337 children from low-income backgrounds
Reports & Papers
Age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic patterns in early computer use: A national survey
A study of computer use patterns in children 6 months to 6 years of age focusing on the influences of age, gender, ethnicity, income, parental education, and family structure and the relationship between computer screen time and reading skills
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All children are ready to learn: An emergent versus readiness perspective in early literacy assessment
A discussion of the differences between emergent literacy and reading readiness and a description of Marie Clay's contribution to assessing reading readiness as well as strategies to help implement her assessment techniques with young children with special needs
Reports & Papers
All children ready for school: Communication, language, and literacy
A discussion of children's outcomes associated with cognitive development and early literacy skills, including information on best practices in early childhood to promote optimal outcomes
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Alphabet and phonological awareness: Can it be enhanced in the early childhood setting?
A proposal to use professional development to increase teachers' understandings of both the alphabet principle and phonological awareness and to implement them both within a holistic curriculum and within the context of children’s play, based on literacy research conducted in New Zealand
Other
Alphabetic anxiety and explicit, systematic phonics instruction: A cognitive science perspective
An examination of the role of the alphabet in children’s acquisition of early literacy skills
Other
Alphabet knowledge in preschool: A Rasch model analysis
An examination of the dimensions of the alphabet knowledge construct and the relative difficulty of different alphabet knowledge tasks--uppercase letter recognition, names, and sounds, and lowercase letter names--within a sample of 335 children recruited from 15 child care and preschool facilities in Fort Wayne, Memphis, and New York City
Reports & Papers
America's early childhood literacy gap
An overview of children's early literacy development, the early literacy skills gap between children from low-income and middle-income families, and the role of early interventions in reducing the gap
Fact Sheets & Briefs
An analysis of early literacy assessments used for instruction
A literature review analyzing assessments used to obtain instructionally relevant information about the literacy performance of children in kindergarten through third grade
Literature Review
An analysis of a public school prekindergarten Montessori bilingual program
An analysis of second grade reading achievement scores of Spanish and English norm-referenced tests between children who participated in a Montessori bilingual program and those that attended a traditional bilingual program
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