Beyond activities: Engaging families in preschoolers' language and literacy development
Preliminary findings from a study of a Head Start early literacy family engagement intervention that examine child language and literacy outcomes and family engagement practices
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Bilingual means two: Assessment issues, early literacy and Spanish speaking children
A paper outlining issues in the instruction of two-language children in reading and writing and implications for bilingual education programs.
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Birthday effects and preschool attendance
A comparison of young-for-grade students to old-for-grade students on both early literacy upon kindergarten entry and their probabilities of being retained in kindergarten, and an examination of the relationship between early education attendance and those comparative differences, based on data from 1,474 economically disadvantaged first-time kindergarteners who attended 468 public schools in Virginia in the fall of 2007
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Blending effective behavior management and literacy strategies for preschoolers exhibiting negative behavior
A rationale for embedding literacy instruction within behavior management strategies to assist preschool age students with negative behaviors
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Book reading interactions between African American and Puerto Rican Head Start children and their mothers
An observational study examining and comparing the interaction styles between African American and Puerto Rican mothers and their Head Start children during shared book reading
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Book reading styles in dual-parent and single-mother families
An observational study of shared book reading to determine if there are variations in reading methods between mothers without a partner and mothers and fathers from dual-parent families
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Books, bytes and brains: The implications of new knowledge for children's early literacy learning
The early years of childhood are critical for the successful development of adult literacy, whatever that literacy might look or feel like in the oncoming digital age. Two questions that become important are what sort of literacy (or literacies) will children need in the future to navigate new information pathways, and how can we use recent advances in neuroscience to help us understand optional pathways for developing the fundamentally social skills of literacy. This paper reviews recent research from the two traditionally separate areas of contemporary literacies and infant brain development to re-examine the underpinnings of literacy learning in the early years. (author abstract)
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Books make a difference: A study of access to literacy
An examination of Books Aloud, an early literacy intervention and the project’s impact on children’s early literacy skills
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Born too soon: What can we expect?: Nature of home literacy experiences for children with very low birth weight
An exploration of the home literacy experiences of children born with a very low birth weight and their influence on children?s literacy development, based on observations of and interviews with 16 families of 4-year old children born with a very low birthweight
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Bright Futures Early Reading First: Year three summary evaluation report
An evaluation of the Bright Futures Early Reading First project, which provides professional support to teachers implementing early literacy curricula in Madison Parish, Louisiana, that examined children's literacy outcomes, professional development and classroom quality, and parent involvement
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Bringing it all together: The multiple origins, skills, and environmental supports of early literacy
A study of the origins, skills and environmental supports of early language and literacy
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British Columbia: What are the Federal Provincial Territorial agreements?
A summary of federal child care funds made available to the province of British Columbia, Canada in 2005/6 through Federal Provincial Territorial (FPT) agreements
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Building an integrated model of early reading acquisition
A study investigating children’s profiles on four constructs fundamental to areas of childrens’ early literacy acquisition: auditory processing, crystallized ability, processing speed, and short-term memory in order to describe an integrated model of early reading acquisition
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Caregiver-child interactions and early literacy development of preschool children from low-income environments
An examination of early literacy skill development among Head Start
participants, and caregiver-child interactions that are associated with early literacy skill development
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Child and maternal contributions to shared reading: Effects on language and literacy development
A longitudinal study of the effects of mother-child home literacy practices on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts from 18 to 42 months of age
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Child and parent characteristics, parental expectations, and child behaviours related to preschool children's interest in literacy
An examination of the relationship between children’s literacy interest and parent and child characteristics, parental expectations of their children's school attainment and achievement, and the childen's positive and problem behaviors from parent questionnaires and teacher ratings of behavior of 61 children ages 34 to 69 months from 5 child care centers in a mid-sized midwestern city
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Child care choices and children's cognitive achievement: The case of single mothers
An investigation of the effect of child care attendance and mother-child interactions on children's cognitive achievement, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 Cohort (NLSY79)
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Childhood language skills and adult literacy: A 29-year follow-up study
An examination of the relationship between adult literacy skills at 34 years old and family background, housing conditions, early literacy environment, early receptive language ability, and preschool attendance at 5 years old from a sample of 11,349 participants from the 1970 British Cohort Study
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Children learning to read later catch up to children reading earlier
A comparison of growth in reading abilities between children in New Zealand who received reading instruction at either age 5 or 7, based on two years of data from 287 differently-aged elementary school students in three cohorts, and a cross-sectional sample of 83 middle school-aged children
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Children's acquisition of early literacy skills: Examining family contributions
An examination of the impact of family environment on young children's emergent literacy and language skills using three theoretical models (Family as Educator, Resilient Family, Parent-Child Partnership)
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Children's graphical representations and emergent writing: Evidence from children's drawings
A study of the Chinese pictographic and English ideographic characters appearing in the drawings of ten children aged 4-5 at Austin Chinese School
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Children's literacy: Children's Books for Healthy Families/Libros de Ninos para Familias Saludables
A special issue of the Journal of Extension, summarizing a longitudinal study of the relationship between parent-child reading activities and emergent literacy in children from birth to age three
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Children's literature and early literacy success: Using the Charlotte Zolotow award collection in early childhood teacher education
Arguments for the use of high quality children's literature by early childhood educators in children's emergent literacy instruction
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Children's oral narrative and reading skills in the first 3 years of reading instruction
Two studies that investigate the relationship between oral narrative and reading skills in the first 3 years of reading instruction, the first based on data from 61 children with 1 year of reading instruction and a second study of 39 children who experienced 2 years of reading instruction from two state primary schools in New Zealand
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Children's prelitercy skills: Influence of mothers' education and beliefs about shared-reading interactions
A study of the association of children's preliteracy skills with maternal education and home literacy activities, and an examination of the mediating variable of maternal beliefs about literacy activities, among 45 mothers and their preschoolers from a small Appalachian community
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