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Early Start: A literacy-rich prekindergarten program for children academically at risk
McCormick, Christine E., 1992
Journal of Early Intervention, 16(1), 79-86

A description Early Start, a center-based prekindergarten literacy program for at-risk children in Illinois, and an assessment of the impact on its participants

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How children make language out of gesture: Morphological structure in gesture systems developed by American and Chinese deaf children
Goldin-Meadow, Susan, September 2007
Cognitive Psychology, 55(2), 87-135

An exploration of the language-learning skills that deaf children develop in relation to gestural input they receive from their hearing parents, using observational data from a longitudinal, cross-cultural study of children between ages 2 and 11

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The national randomized field trial of success for all: Second-year outcomes
Borman, Geoffrey D., 2005
American Educational Research Journal, 42(4), 673-696

Findings from the second year of a three-year study assessing the influence of the Success for All program on children’s development, based on a sample of 3,290 students assessed using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised (WMTR)

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Native Spanish-speaking children reading in English: Toward a model of comprehension
Proctor, C. Patrick, 2005
Journal of Educational Psychology, 97(2), 246-256

Findings from a test of a research-based structural equation model of second-language English reading comprehension on a sample of 135 fourth-grade bilingual Latino readers whose first language was Spanish

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Preschool children's mathematical knowledge: The effect of teacher ''math talk''
Klibanoff, Raquel S., 2006
Developmental Psychology, 42(1), 59-69

A study of the relation between the mathematical content in the teachers' verbalizations and the increase in conventional mathematical knowledge among preschoolers in urban, center-based settings

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Spanish-speaking children's social and language development in pre-kindergarten classrooms
Chang, Florence, 2007
Early Education and Development, 18(2), 243-269

A discussion of the Spanish and English language interactions that Spanish-speaking children experience in the pre-K classroom in relation to their social and cognitive outcomes, based on data from 345 Spanish-speaking students in pre-K programs

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Summative evaluation of PBS Kids Island: Usability, outcomes, and appeal
Schmitt, Kelly L., October, 2010
Philadelphia: Annenberg School of Communications (University of Pennsylvania).

A study of the impact on preschool and kindergarten children's early literacy development, as well as the ease of use and appeal, of either PBS Kids Island, a pre-literacy Web site, or PBS Kids Island with additional support materials, based on parent and child questionnaires and pre- and post-intervention assessments for 48 Kids Island, 45 Kids Island with support materials, and 43 control group children

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Super Why Summer Camp assessment findings: Summer 2008
Phillips, Beth M., December 15, 2008
Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service.

An evaluation of the emergent literacy outcomes of participation in Super WHY! Reading Camp, a week-long summer literacy program for preschool-age children, based on pre- and post-test assessments of 454 children who participated in 2008

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Third national Even Start evaluation: Program impacts and implications for improvement
United States. Department of Education. Planning and Evaluation Service, 2003
(Doc No. 2005-05). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Planning and Evaluation Service.

Findings from the third national evaluation of the federal Even Start family literacy program, including a description of the program and its participants, and a discussion of program impacts based on data from an experimental study of Even Start's effectiveness in 18 projects

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The varieties of speech to young children
Huttenlocher, Janellen, September 2007
Developmental Psychology, 43(5), 1062-1083

A longitudinal study of changes in caregiver speech in interactions with children aged 14-30 months, in a sample of 50 families in the Chicago area

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